I am Canadian and Canada Day just passed (as well as the 4th of July for my American followers). This year I decided I was going to take part in celebrating Canada, I had great company at the Jays game and fireworks in the evening!
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Maeg
In my other post I wrote about what you need in order to be prepared for Toronto’s Nuit Blanche for this year, in this one I’m going to write about my experience while I was there. Lets get started shall we?
Because I live in a lovely city called Brampton that’s only 30 mins away from Toronto and has the worse public transit to get there, I have an awesome story for you. Okay, I wouldn’t say awesome but it was interesting for us. We caught the bus that goes to Bramalea GO station and when we got there we got our tickets for the GO bus. We were looking at our tickets when we noticed it said that there was no bus going straight from Bramalea GO to Union Bus Terminal. You need to know first that Brampton Bus Terminal is no where near the Bramalea GO station. I have the ticket right in front of me and I’m going to write it the exact way it says.
Suggested Trip:
Bramalea GO to BrampBusTerm
Bus Route Number 34 at 19:00
BrampBusTerm to Union Bus Term
Bus Route Number 31F at 19:30
My mum checked online when the next bus was and she told us it was at 7:45 (19:45), and of course the bus came at 7:45pm. When we got on the bus there was so many people waiting that the bus was full, so full that people were standing. The bus that goes to Union stops at at Malton GO before getting on the highway to Toronto. This damn bus driver didn’t call in that his bus was full so he couldn’t even pick anyone up, he did end up calling it in but he got in trouble for not saying it earlier. He told people that the next bus would be there in 5 mins, everyone that was waiting outside said that they don’t mind standing so he let even more on. My sister and I noticed that there was a guy in a motorized wheelchair and we were sitting in curiosity sitting. I was getting upset because I was not standing on this damn bus even if I was sitting in those chairs. He didn’t come on the bus anyways but it was annoying because this bus driver couldn’t do his job. We were finally on our way but he was driving SOO slow because of these people were standing, I’m telling you he didn’t go over 60 on the highway. It took almost two hours to get to Toronto.
Two hours later when we finally got to Toronto my sister and I started to find our way to the hotel, which would of been easy if there wasn’t so much construction. We found it and checked in and went to our room for me to charge my phone. Once that was done we were on our way out. Now we didn’t check the map that was online to see where things were, I just assumed that they were in the normal places that they’ve always been but I was wrong. We did a lot of art seeing though.
Those are some pictures I took of the art. My favourite one that we went to see was a tank that had a person in it, would fill up with water and they would go on about doing whatever they were doing. A girl did house work, this guy played guitar. It was amazing.
You can see the water go all the way up and then it starting to come down. The night was a pretty good night, there was some funny parts. I was taking a picture of some art when this lovely girl decided to shove her face into my camera as it took the picture…..
I went to one of the food trucks because we were hungry, my food was pretty damn good but there’s a funny story to it. Like I said the food was amazing but it was very filling, my sister wanted to try some of it without the meat on it so I took it off and she had a few bites. When we were done with it I had it in my hand about to throw it out when a young girl with her friend (they did not look homeless at all) came up to me and grabbed it. She picked up my half eaten chicken and started to eat it, I was trying to pull it away because I was honestly saying “what the fuck?” to myself but she wouldn’t let go. Finally I got fed up, dropped it and walked away. Needless to say I was a little freaked out but that’s what Toronto is like.
All in all I had a good time and I’m ready for next years.
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Fall is quickly coming upon us so I wanted to write a little something about that! Now remember I live in Toronto/Brampton so these things will most likely be things we do around here!
There you have it! Hopefully you liked this post and this gave you some ideas.
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It is official, the storm I was talking about my previous post has been hash tagged “ice storm 2013.” The storm got worse over right, literally every parking lot is a sheet of ice, every tree has either fallen over or parts broke off, half the city doesn’t have power and isn’t expected to get power until Christmas day. If you stand by a window you will hear cracking of a tree that is falling over, it’s actually a creepy sound. My boyfriend picked me up at 12:30 PM last night, so everyone was in their houses and there was no cars, all I could hear is the trees by the school I live fall down. I didn’t know what tree it was because they were so loud I thought they were the ones by me. Salt doesn’t do anything for the ice that is everywhere, you literally have to scrap it off if you don’t want to slip. Hydro lines have fallen down because we put the lines along the roads where the trees are so that’s why the power is off.
Early a generator exploded and it made the sky go purple, red and blues in Toronto. It’s honestly really bad here, trees are falling on houses, people and pets. Everyone is still in the Christmas rush so they aren’t following the rule if the stop lights aren’t working, treat it as a four way stop. When I drove by the mall on my way home, the parking lot was still packed. Both my boyfriend and I work in rec centers, he is maintenance and I’m a lifeguard. He had to go into work because even though all the programs are cancelled the recs turn into safe havens, so people with no power can go there to warm up. If they need people to do first aid they could call all the lifeguards to come help out but that would only happen in a really bad situation.
The radio here is nothing but where to go if you don’t have power, how to drive, telling everyone to go slow and don’t rush anywhere, the weather and telling everyone to stay inside. The weather for here is that the ice storm warning is over but it is still raining, it’s getting warm so it’s really foggy now but later tonight the temperature is suppose to drop so everything will be a sheet of ice again. This weather is going to be here for awhile as long as it stays this cold and even if it does get warm it will melt but at night it always drops below freezing.
Cleaning off your car is terrible, the scrapper wasn’t even working on the car windows. My boyfriend just started to beat the window with the brush do it would crack so you can even get the scrapper to get under the ice. It worked but don’t bang too hard. My friend actually was using a blow dryer to get into her car which would work but would take all day long.
My family is just chilling at home and getting ready for Christmas and avoiding the storm. Tomorrow people start coming over so we have to go down to meet them to keep them from falling. My family parks underground and we have a two car parking spot, tomorrow we are going to get my uncle to park there then walk up the long way so we don’t have to walk on ice.
This is just my point of view, I know people will have a worst story to write about since trees are falling on houses and cars. Please be careful out there!
Okay so at my work which is the City of Brampton we have this thing every year cold Fright Night. It happens in October by halloween of course, everyone dresses up, my bosses all the way down to maintenance staff and volunteers. This is a big night for rec centres, at mine we had a hay ride, haunted maze, swimming, arts and craft table, a magician, and face painting! I work in the pool and since we have to save lives we don’t really get to dress up but we can wear ears and face paint. So a girl that I worked with were cats! We were pretty cute, not gonna lie. haha.
Anyways our night was interesting because we were suppose to have five guards because there was suppose to be a lot of people and there usually is. I ended up having 3 including myself, I told my boss since my actual boss that was suppose to get all the guards there wasn’t there. We just ended up guarding three which went really well surprisingly! We only had one report to fill out and it was just a cut so that’s good. After we cleaned up the pool as fast as we could then went through the maze, ate smores and popcorn. It was actually so much fun and I can’t believe I’ve never worked it before!
There are more fright night night’s if you just look up on the website or go to your local rec if you live in Brampton and want to go! Check it out!
Well Hello, I know I haven’t been around in awhile but I’ve been busying and I’m pretty sure I say that every time I write a new post. LOL. The reasons why I’ve been so busy is that my boyfriend, my sister and I were suppose to go to the aquarium but he got sick so we postponed it. Instead we went to go get another chameleon! He already has one named Allen, which I love and I won’t let him get rid of.
This small green one is Allen. I love this little guy, he gets so angry and annoyed really easy but he is a cutie. He loves to crawl on me and just chill on top of my head; he’s just a little guy.
Now this morning my boyfriend couldn’t sleep so he woke my ass up and drove all the way to Markham to get this new one. We got there and he went in and came out with this little cute orange, red girl!
She’s fat compared to Allen but that’s because she is going to get a lot bigger then him as well. We have a big tank set up at his house which she seems to be getting comfy in! On the way home since it was a long drive I took her out of the container, she just sat on my knuckles the whole way home, she seemed pretty comfy there. When we were maybe 5 mins away from home she decided that she wanted to go for a run. She ran up my arm and down my back and I only got her off because we hit a red light and my boyfriend quickly grabbed her and gave her back to me. She kept doing it because she wanted to be high up so I raised my arm, she stopped but then the next problem was that she wanted to climb on the roof of the car. I made sure she didn’t then when we got her home we put her in his tank to get use to it.
My boyfriend said this one is mine apparently and I had to name her but I didn’t know. So since she has orange and gets really orange when she’s happy we named her Pumpkin. I think it’s cute and goes with my personality and plus my mum called me pumpkin when I was little; which she’s only 4 months old.
I will keep posting pictures as she gets bigger, I’m hoping she will get like really big but we will see!
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Tonight was actually really fun and I completely needed it. Two girls from work asked me if I was busy this Friday night and I said no therefore we went to sushi. Now I’m not one who is good with chopsticks but I love me some good sushi, the place we went to is called Tokyo Maki Sushi; it was pretty good! It’s an all you can eat sushi place and it’s all one price, your drink, dinner and dessert is $20.99+tax. The service is really good, refills keep coming when you need them and the food comes out really fast. Dessert was also extremely good for something so simply, tempura banana and chocolate ice cream is heaven!
Honestly this is a good spot and is now one of my favourite places to get sushi! Should check it out if you’re ever in Brampton!
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