Day 13: Last day in Toronto, last day of exchange

I told everyone to sleep until 自然醒 and nobody should set alarm the night before. I absolutely regret saying this. I am so so so guilty. I slept very late at like 5am and only woke up at 1pm. The rest woke up much much earlier but I think they didn't dare to wake me up because of what I said the night before. Oh my, they really can wake me up and I won't mind. That's not it. Turns out that the host, I shall call him uncle here, he wanted to fetch us to Niagara Falls to see how it looks like when it's covered with snow. It's only an hour drive away. But we all woke up too late, or rather, I woke up too late (Shoots myself) I would have loved to see Niagara Falls again although I've visited it earlier in August! So wasted :< Anyway, we had some coffee with desserts like cheesecake, shortbread and crumble cake at the uncle's home and he fetched us around his neighborhood to sightsee. So kind of him!! He also cooked a Singaporean dinner for us at night! Haven't had homecooked food since I left Saint John and he whipped up a simple but yummy feast! This made New Year's Eve better even though we are not out to countdown with the crowd. We ended up watching live telecast of the countdown at Times Square in New York, my first time watching it! The uncle also showed us some videos he took a few years ago of pride parade (les and gays parade) and some naked cycling event held in Toronto. It was so hilarious! Canadians are pretty interesting people. Just imagine people walking around or cycling naked LOL.

Anyway, this is the last official night in Canada. I was pretty sad because I really don't want to go home yet. :<

Day 12: Toronto

We were pretty lucky that we flew back on this day because a few days ago there was a snowstorm in Toronto and many flights were cancelled! But somehow we don't seem to have fate with Toronto. The previous time we were there before we started the US trip, we missed our transit to Toronto. This time, our flight to Toronto was CANCELLED without our knowledge. Luckily we got onto another flight which had the same timing, I assume it was because our flight wasn't full so they decided to combine. They could have told us earlier! We spent 1-2 hours queuing and trying to find out what happened.

It was a very long journey to get to the place we are temporarily staying in, Oakville. We had to take a ferry out of the city airport, take an airport shuttle to downtown then change to a train to get to Oakville. By the time we hopped on the train to Oakville it was already 1143pm! Lucky for us, the host was kind enough to pick us up but I felt pretty bad since it was already so late and she had to fetch us. They are really really kind Singaporeans who are living in Canada. Very thankful for them so we didn't have to pay for accommodation at all! We were sleeping at the basement of their house which was pretty huge.

Toronto

Travelled Toronto from 1 to 4 September! It was a nice city with lots of good food - Japanese, Korean, Chinese etc. We were so happy because we dont have such food back in Saint John :&lt; Spent most of our time eating there! We have been stuck in a town for too long, it was really good to see the city again. We explored mainly the uptown area. High rise buildings and a huge mall, felt like I was in Orchard. Shopped at F21, H&amp;M and other small shops. We were really deprived of shopping because there is NOTHING to shop in Saint John. Quite happy to be able to shop although it wasn't that cheap! And University of Toronto is HUGEEEEE. Its located in town and like 10x the size of NTU I think.

We had free accommodation thanks to TY. We stayed at her cousin's bf's place (All guys) and they were so nice to us. Had a great time hanging out with them! They brought us out for bubble tea on the first night. Virgin bubble tea in Canada, but I got to say the ones in Singapore taste way better.

Check out David's Tea. They have awesome flavours of tea from fruity, floral to even chocolate and desserts like creme brulee! Interesting names like Love Tea #7, that's one of my fav! We could stay in the shop for like an hour smelling all the different types of tea.They are pretty affordable too! I bought 6 flavours for myself :D 

Kensington market. One of my favs!

Had a yummy churros! The guy was so friendly he taught me numbers in Spanish and ^5 me!

Most tasty ramen I have ever eaten. The pork was tender and the soup was just right.

MY LOVE. Eggs benny with smoked salmon. As tasty as it looks :D

CHICKEN WINGS. The guys cooked for us! Such nice hosts. 

HK dim sum restaurant. Not very cheap but the standard was good.

St Lawrence market. Bought some yummy ice wine here to thank the guys for their hospitality! :)


Wonderland! I'm not a very theme park person as I am still secretly scared of rides that are too thrilling. But I managed to take quite abit of rides here! Achievement unlocked :D

CONQUERED THIS! Highest drop I have experienced in my life thus far.


Distillery District, a place full of many nice cosy cafes.

Lots of paninis

Random hunt for macarons. We went to 3 cafes and this was the most value for money. Love the pistachio, hazelnut and blueberry jam ones! 

Red velvet macaron that was ex so we bought one to share. so precious and it TASTES LIKE HEAVEN.

Ending off with my favourite buy. My virgin pair of TOMS :)