I woke up this morning after a lovely evening at 311. As I made my way to brunch with the fam, I was surprised to see that there was life to the city, something I had never really seen on New Years Day. There were people out jogging (head start on the resolutions?), you could get coffee, prescriptions, and so on. After brunch we made our way to ( Read more... )

Christmas turned out to be really fantastic, on top of all things, my mum and dad were together with my sister and I (first time in 10 years, how time flies ( Read more... )

Making my way by train through Quebec the other day, my eyes fell on something that looked like part garage-part part tent. It was sitting next to a house, and was housing a car. I pointed it out to Chan Chan, who was sitting across from me, and she identified this as a "tempo". A tempo is exactly as I described it above, you can rent them for a ( Read more... )

Always expect the unexpected. For a few summers, and moving into my first winter, I have walked by Chateau Laurier almost daily and had no idea that they served high tea. Not that it is something I would have jumped at the chance for before, but it is an interesting experience nonetheless. Along with tea, you get an etagere filled with lil bite ( Read more... )

Today I met up for food and drinks with a friend from Uxbridge, and a few others. I always like meeting up with this guy cos he has stories about hunting, fishing camping, etc. Today ice fishing came up ( Read more... )