Toronto!

This past Saturday, my whole dorm went to Toronto to go shopping! Now normally I don't like shopping but I think I am gaining a new found appreciation of it. Or maybe my appreciation has been supressed all these years due to the lack of good stores in Lethbridge's mall (yes that is singular, only because no one actually goes to the other places we have claimed to be malls) and it was just waiting to awaken when I had the opportunity to choose from hundreds of stores. Who knows? It is great that I am realizing this when my bank account has the singular purpose of paying tuition. Oh well, at least I can look.

After we went shopping for a while, we took the subway downtown and started to look for a place to go for supper. Or so I thought. As I was walking down the street, admiring all the old buildings, I was viciously blindfolded and tackled to the ground by an unknown stranger who proceeded to take my purse. Ok that didn't happen, but I was blindfolded by my RA, Kira, as a surprise for my half birthday since we won't be together for my actual birthday. After walking down the street for a while and people laughing at me, they took the blindfold off and I was in the Royal Ontario Museum! Now you may think that this is the worst birthday surprise in the world and for you it probably would be. But for me, it was fantastic. I love museums. I am slighlty nerdy, but you can't call me that.

The only reason we were able to go to the museum was because it was free for the last 45 minutes. Poor Dutch college students are great at finding bargains. There wasn't very much time to look around but I still managed to look at some great exhibits on European style, Egypt and Asia.

After the museum we went to a place called the Fox and the Fiddle for supper. It wasn't very nice and the food wasn't that great, but once again it was cheap. We just decided to look past the food smears on the menu.

All in all it was an affordably great time.