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I'm now in Toronto! Flew straight from JRK and am staying with my godmother's son, Owen and his fiance Toni. The house is AMAZING with an outdoor pool and a cute doggie. So far I've been chilling out a lot, went to the museum today and a bit of window shopping (trying to save some dollar). Some really cool shops around. Toronto is much calmer than NY and a nicer looking city. We're going to the Niagara Falls this weekend and also bike riding and I'm going to try and get a bit of work and make some extra cash!
Exciting times!
July 14th
Well so far I have done a lot more chilling out. On Saturday we went for a three course lunch ($20) and in the evening we went for a curry and then to Little Italy for some drinks with Toni and Owen's friends. One of them insisted on talking to Owen and I in a horrendous English accent. Idiot. Can you imagine if I constantly put on a crap canadian accent to talk to the locals? How insulting! The drinks were really good though, I had a great time.
On Sunday we went fro brunch with Owens friend who then drove us to the harbour in his MASSIVE hummer (see photos) and we caught a water taxi to the island (Toronto sits on the side of Lake Ontario, one of the great lakes) where I rented a bike and we rode around. The weather was perfect, absolutely brilliant. Toni and I saw signs for a 'clothing optional' beach which we thought was hilarious, so we went to it and laughed and cringed alot! The views from the Island were stunning, you could see the city perfectly and the CN Tower (the tallest free standing tower in the world).
Last night I could here something/someone out side my room and started panicking. Owen told me that it was probably the raccoons eating out the rubbish so when I heard it again at 3 in the morning I looked out my window with a torch and there were 2 MASSIVE raccoons! They weren't even bothered by me shining the light on them! Amazing!
Monday July 21st
So basically since my last entry lots of things have happened. I've seen a lot more wildlife! I've seen a chipmunk, a snake, and a wild black bear ran across the road in front of us! On Tuesday, Toni and I drove up North for the day on a little road trip. It was really beautiful, lots of forests, lakes and rocks, and that's where we saw the bear!
On Thursday we drove down to Buffalo in the state of New York for a paintball tournament in which Owen's company had a big VIP tent which I worked in as a waitress.On the way down we drove through Niagara and I went to see the falls and also went down to the bottom and behind the falls! They were awesome, literally!
The paintball tournament was really fun, and eventhough I couldn't understand at first how paintball is an actual professional sport, I gradually began to really enjoy watching the games and learning about it. Everyone was really nice and basicallly I was just serving drinks and looking after people but I was able to have some drinks myself and chill out and talk to people. Two of the girls I was working with were wearing 'hot mountie' costumes (in my photo album) but I wasn't quite brave enough to get in one myself!
Anyway, tomorrow morning I am going onto San Francisco to stay with another family friend.
Grace xxx
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