Anyway, I left Estonia with my family on the 14. July. The flight from Helsinki to Toronto was pretty uncomfortable, as I wasn't sleepy, and there wasn't really a lot to do on the plane. But it was good to be back in Toronto. The day after arrival we went to downtown, kind of obviously, and I showed some places to my brother, now that I felt less like a newcomer. Eaton Center, the side of Lake Ontario, the Toronto University grounds and so on. Later Tiina took us to a free outdoors cinema, where they showed "How To Train Your Dragon". They had loads of technical issues but after an hour or so, they finally got it going.
On the 16. I walked to Danforth Avenue from our base on Burnham Road. There was a South-East Asian Festival somewhere around there and later at Woodbine Park down south I saw the Jazz Festival, same one as last year, there were some good performers. I liked a band called Left Foot Yellow, who played, and I assume composed, some instrumental rock songs.
The 17. was our last full day in Toronto, we're going back soon though. Soon we will start our little road trip in the States, and then we'll shoot off to Florida from Phoenix and then we will return to Toronto. Anyway, on the 17. I decided to walk around and explore (something I've become obsessed with recently) by myself. I went North, to a rich neighborhood. From there I went into a park, the one that's connected to Sunnybrook Park. It felt like it would never end. It was a great park, but in the end I wanted to find a way out and which ever way I went, there were just more plains, baseball fields, horse stables and so on. Eventually I did get out, obviously. It was through a campus of York University. Ten I went to Eglinton, and after an hour or two I was back home. We then went to Chinatown with my family, with many classic products in the smelly supermarkets, such as bean flavored ice lollies.
So, we had a flight to Vancouver two days ago. Staying at my uncle Arne's and his family's place around South Surrey, which I think is about an hour's drive from downtown. I've never been this far west before, until now the most west place was probably Florida, but I visited that in 1995, when I was a 1 year old.
It was a nice flight, loads of space. In the evening we all went to White Rock, a little town near Surrey, and there actually was a white rock there, on the beach.
What I like about Vancouver is that there's a lot of water here:
We went to Granville Island, which is in downtown. Filled with places like a food court, broom shop, some art shops and a brewery. There was also a show where some guy who called himself Dynamike, rode on a 3 metres (maybe) high unicycle while juggling machetes. Later I walked around by myself on the North coast of downtown, Stanley park and some other bits there. Pleasant area.
I'm not exactly sure what's gonna happen today, currently they've been dealing with the car, so I've had time to write here in my blog. Oh, and I'll try get some photos soon.
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