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Wednesday 23rd May 2007
NJ Meets Tim
One fast food chain dominated the landscape in Canada, and its not the one with the golden arches. On this morning I was taken down to the cluster of food places by the Toronto Congress Center for what was described as a Canadian tradition, this tradition was eating breakfast at Tim Hortons. It was probably the nicest breakfast sandwich I'd ever eaten, and my introduction to ordering food in Canada. As well as an introduction to the pain-in-the-ass process of tax being added at the cash register.
The focus of the day was downtown Toronto, supposedly something nice and relaxing after a day of travel. Why public transport is considered relaxing I have no idea. Cue the start of manic indecision about where to eat lunch (we eventually went to a nearby Swiss Chalet, another restaurant chain) and my introduction to Jessica's insane mood swing when she hasn't eaten for a while. The CN Tower was one point of the day, the vertigo sufferers among us looked more than a little queasy once in the top observation deck known as the Sky Pod.
After the tower it was onto my first experience with proper, un-fizzy lemonade. Then it was to a lot of shops, a extremely punchable sales assistant in the Apple Shop, a complete inability to find anyone in a mall with 2 food courts and then The Stag Shop.
Ah the Stag Shop, Toronto's biggest sex shop where a few people just hung around in the 'safe' bottom floor while everyone else went upstairs to look at sex toys of all descriptions. I ended up buying a vibrator and a set of (much longed for it must be said) anal beads once I had relaxed and picked up the courage. In theory the bus ride home should've been easy.
But the group split, one group went to see The Phantom of the Opera at the Princess of Wales Theatre and the others went back to the Doubletree. Or we would've if we hadn't missed our stop and got lost. It was 20-30 minutes before the Doubletree's logo came into sight and we eventually got to collapse in the room.
In the room we started meeting other people, some people Sarah knew dropped by and I took to just poking people with my new toys. Then one of the new people asked what it actually was I was poking her with, the entire room nearly suffocated laughing.
Swag Obtained
CN Tower t-shirt
CN Tower teddy
Vibrator
Anal beads
Tomorrow
You Spin Me Right Round
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