tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84774439294364998522024-03-19T01:08:52.311-04:00Checking off Lists...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02201455858983029999noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477443929436499852.post-82651310611390741142014-12-23T15:16:00.000-05:002014-12-23T15:24:46.397-05:00So sad to leave and I haven't even arrived yet<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So, it has been a while. Plans have been made, steps taken, it's coming together! We applied for our Australian Working Holiday Visas and, when I checked the next day, we had already been approved! That was a huge step and a huge relief. It was actually happening! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While working on this past job, the production was using my credit card to book flights and other things. They spent tens of thousands of dollars on my card. By the end of the show in November, my husband and I had enough flight points to book two one-way tickets to Australia. We transferred the points to where we needed them and now our flights are officially booked! We fly out of Toronto on June 1. We had to push it back a bit further than we had wanted because we will be working in Winnipeg, Manitoba again starting in February. That show won't end until mid-May and we wanted a couple weeks to get everything ready. We decided on a city to live as well. We originally thought we would live in Sydney, but from what I read, Sydney is really expensive. I looked up which cities were cheapest and Brisbane popped up on the list. We decided this would be a perfect place for us to start. We land in Brisbane the morning of June 3, 2015! I know I said it before, but now it's REALLY actually happening!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Once our first Winnipeg job ended, we flew back to Toronto and spent just under two weeks packing up all of our stuff. We drove truckloads of stuff to Goodwill (and to my little sister). We had 1-800-Got-Junk come and take away almost everything else in our apartment, and then we drove to the in-laws with the small amount of stuff we were keeping and loaded it into their basement and their barn. We kept our bed, one desk, our kitchen stuff (pots, pans, and dishes) and our linens (towels, sheets, blankets). We also had a couple boxes of important papers and DVDs we didn't want to get rid of and photo albums. This stuff will stay in storage until we get back from Australia (if we come back hahahaha). It felt good to have all of this dealt with. Our apartment is cleaned out and we let our landlord know we were out and wouldn't be renewing our lease once it was up. Now we are homeless, haha. But it feels awesome to have another piece of the puzzle in place. No turning back! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The minimum amount you need in your bank account to be let into Australia on a Working Holiday Visa is 5000$ AUD. I now have enough in my savings to cover that for both my husband and myself! You also need to prove you have a way out of the country, either a return flight booked, or enough additional money to purchase a flight home. We have decided on a slightly different route. Recently we put down a deposit for a 24-day cruise from Sydney to Vancouver, Canada! With our next job, my husband will save up enough to pay this cruise off before we leave for Australia, and I will continue to build on our savings so we have as much money as possible and less chance of failure. Sometimes I am actually more excited for the cruise home than for the actual Australia holiday itself!! I've been on a couple cruises and I think it will be such an awesome way to end our trip. We stop in Fiji, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Samoa, and Hawaii! It is going to be the best ever. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I feel like we have accomplished a lot so far for this trip! We both have unlocked phones ready to go so all we will need to do is buy a new SIM card in Australia. We have looked into a couple ways of transferring our money to our Australian bank account when we get one. We have checked out furnished apartments online and airbnb rentals. I have my Lonely Planet Australia guide book, and I just finished reading "In a Sunburned Country" by Bill Bryson. I watched a movie called Tracks about a girl who walks across the Western Australia desert from Alice Springs to the Indian Ocean and then got the book when I found out it was based on that. Everything is just making me sad though. I know one year isn't going to be enough time. There is so much to see and so much to do. I planned out a month-long, cross-country train trip thinking it might be a good idea to see the whole country before </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">we picked a place to settle down and find jobs. It would cost us almost all of our money though so we know we have to get jobs and save up money before we do anything like that. I have been looking for blogs about people who did Working Holidays in Australia but haven't found very much. I just need to know everything there is to know, is that so much to ask?? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I started thinking we would work for the first 6 months, save up like crazy, and then spend the rest of our time travelling across the country. BUT then I remembered that there is no way I am going to be that close to New Zealand and not go there... and Indonesia will be so close too...and I really want to go to Asia... DO YOU SEE?!? This is my brain right now. It is excited and happy and sad and nervous all at once. I am so sad to leave Australia and I haven't even arrived yet. It is comforting to know that if I really wanted to stay an extra year, I could work really hard and find a job on a farm for 3 months (or multiple farms) and apply for an extension. I know we would be able to push our cruise back to the next year as well. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">My ideal trip would probably go like this: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">-Work and live in one or two cities in Australia for a year (3 months of that being on a farm eligible for the extension) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Get the extension</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Spend our second year in Australia mostly travelling everywhere with maybe an occasional job thrown in here and there </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Somehow magically have enough money to then get a working holiday in New Zealand and spend a year there as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Take a side trip to Indonesia </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Take another side trip to Japan and China</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Take our cruise home 2-3 years later than originally planned (how long is the working holiday in New Zealand?) OMG I'LL BE 30 AND EVERYTHING WILL BE RUINED!!! No I won't ...I will be 29. Phew. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is my new plan. What could possibly go wrong?! </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02201455858983029999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477443929436499852.post-80553871756949972532014-10-13T16:39:00.000-04:002014-10-13T16:45:26.754-04:00Leslie Street Spit on the Down Low<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Leslie Street Spit, also known as Tommy Thompson Park, started out as a place to drop off junk such as rock, gravel, and building materials. Over the years it evolved. It still serves the same purpose for construction but now it doubles as a wildlife park as well. Birds thrive in this peninsula, in fact, it is one of the best places for bird watching in the entire Greater Toronto Area. It is completely man-made, but nature sort of took over and turned it into something beautiful. One thing I love so much about Toronto is places like this. You can be in the middle of the city and feel like you're miles away in peaceful wilderness. There are great views of the Toronto skyline from the park as well, I'd say even better than from Toronto Island. </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The park is closed during weekdays because it is considered an open construction area. My husband and I went for a bike ride one early evening and just decided to squeeze past the closed gate. We are rebels like that....haha. For anyone who has thought of checking out the Spit, I definitely suggest doing it the way we did. We saw about 4 other people in the park the entire time we were there. This was the only time I have ever been there so I am not sure how it is on the weekend but I am guessing it can get pretty crowded. It felt like our own secret place. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I didn't have a lot of time to take pictures because my husband just wanted to go for a nice bike ride and I was ruining it by stopping every 5 seconds to take a picture, haha. I had planned to go back by myself to take more but I never got the chance. Now I am out of town until at least January which is too bad, I would have loved to go back. Here are some of the pictures I did get to take...</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02201455858983029999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477443929436499852.post-84104827693053952862014-10-07T20:56:00.000-04:002014-10-07T20:56:59.502-04:00Cheltenham Badlands<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Back in July, my sister and I drove out to the Cheltenham Badlands. It's not a far drive from Toronto and it is a really cool place. Surrounded by trees, there is this rolling patch of land that is just dry red dirt. It's actually looks kind of other worldly. The badlands are right off a road too so it seems extra weird. You just park the car, get out, and you're there! I think it is part of the Bruce trail, or at least part of a side trail that connects with the Bruce trail. Well, a picture's worth a thousand words....</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02201455858983029999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477443929436499852.post-33354120155533976082014-10-05T15:26:00.001-04:002014-10-05T15:31:52.537-04:00Hopefully Australia.<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If you read my blog from beginning to end, you would notice that I change my mind constantly and I rarely follow through with the things I set out to do. For once, I just want to finish what I started. Hopefully that thing will be Australia. Plans for a working holiday in Australia have come and gone and come again. I never wanted the plans to go. In fact, I was really upset for a long time when it happened, but they are back now, and the timing couldn't be better! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In mid-August, my husband and I were both between jobs (our jobs are almost like contract work). I was upset about giving up our plans for Australia, and desperate for travel so I thought why not take the small amount of money we had saved up, and take a road trip halfway across the country? I had never been to BC or the east coast of Canada. My husband had a flight booked to visit friends back in Manitoba later in the month so we didn't have a lot of time for this trip. BC would have taken too long, so we went East! It was really fun, even though we were short on time so most days were spent just driving. We camped along the way to save money which is something we had never done before. It was a really great experience and I am so happy we did it even though it cost A LOT more than we had originally planned for. It was worth it though. Anyway, the details are for another post. The part of our trip that is concerned with this post is the drive home. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We were nearing the end of our second day of three days driving back to Toronto, we were planning on making it to Fredericton, NB and had booked a campsite at a park near there for the night. Unfortunately, we only made it to Moncton. I was driving and pulled over on the Trans Canada highway because there was something in my eye and I couldn't exactly get it out while I was trying to pay attention to the road. I found an area of the highway with a huge paved shoulder and went to the very edge of that shoulder. I turned on our hazard lights and put the car in park and while I was picking at my eye someone smashed into us going full highway speed. She hit the back driver's side. It was an extremely scary experience. We went to the hospital, and miraculously, we were completely fine. The doctors were amazed at how well we were doing after an accident of that magnitude. We must have one heck of a guardian angel watching out for us. It could have been so, so, soooo much worse. As awful as it was, there was a silver lining...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We owed a lot of money on that car. We bought it new, and we had another car loan that we had added on to that one when we got it. Our monthly payments were pretty big. Our main obstacle for Australia, when we were planning before, was this car loan. There is no way we could have saved enough extra money to make the payments every month while we were gone, and we wouldn't have been able to sell it for enough to pay off the loan. Our insurance company gave us almost exactly enough to pay off our loan...I was ecstatic. I didn't think they would give us nearly enough to cover it. (I love Desjardins Insurance!) Not only do we not have to worry about what to do with our car now but we also have a much easier time saving because our monthly bills have decreased drastically. We have no real need of a car right now because I actually got a job for the next couple of months working in Manitoba and I have a shared rental car while I am here working. I am making more money than I usually make at this job because I am stepping up and doing a job that is above my level. On top of that, I am getting per diem every week! I figure I can save almost enough for Australia by the end of this job, which will be the end of November. We are paying rent on our apartment in Toronto until March, so we figure we will leave either March or April, depending on how much we can save up! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Our third day in the Bruce Peninsula started out pretty disappointing, but ended up being surprisingly wonderful. We had planned to go to Flowerpot Island that day. There are ferries that take you there and pick you back up after a certain amount of time. We wanted to go out there and hike the trails on the island. It is supposed to be really beautiful and the flowerpot formations are unreal. When we got to the ferry company to buy tickets, we were shocked. The prices were completely unreasonable. We had already spent way more money than we should have on this trip so we decided against Flowerpot Island. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The previous day, we had actually tried to go to the Bruce Peninsula National Park to do some hiking and see some sights. By the time we got there, the park was completely full and they were not letting anyone else in so we had to turn around. Since Flowerpot Island didn't work out, we decided we would try our luck at the park again. It was a bit earlier than we had tried to go the day before so we thought we had an okay chance of getting in this time. As luck would have it, we got in with no problem! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After parking in the parking lot that we were assigned at the gates, we walked towards the Cyprus Lake trails. It actually worked out so much better getting into the Bruce Peninsula National Park on the third day instead of the second day of our trip. We had to walk quite far. I don't think we would have enjoyed it much if we hadn't had a day to recover from that first, excruciating hike, haha. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The paths took us through forests around a couple small lakes until we got to Lake Huron at Indian Head Cove. I loved the boardwalk paths through the forest, they were adorable and beautiful and magical.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The cove was PACKED! People were all over the place. At first I was kind of sad that there were so many people there, it was completely different than our first hike where there was not a soul in sight for hours. Since there was so many people, my sister and I heard about a cool way to get down to the cave below called the Grotto, we wouldn't have found out about it if it wasn't for all the people there! From above we couldn't really see the way down. When we decided we would do it and got down to the entrance, I almost wanted to turn back! It was just a tiny hole leading down into darkness... I am a big scaredy cat, so from what I saw, it did not look like my idea of a good time. I followed my sister down anyways and I am so glad I did! It was really cool and not even very difficult. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Being in the grotto was awesome! It was my second favourite place of the trip. (The first being basically all the lookouts from the first day's hike...) You can swim under if you are an amazing swimmer or if you have scuba gear, I heard someone say that people have died trying though...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We got back to our car and drove into Tobermory for dinner at the Crowsnest Pub again and spent the rest of our last night in the Bruce Peninsula just hanging out at the Bed and Breakfast on our balcony. We left after a quick breakfast the next morning and made the long drive back to Toronto. I still would love to live up in this area. It was ridiculously beautiful and we hardly explored any of it! If it wasn't so cold in the winter and if there was more to do career-wise up there, I would be seriously considering moving up there! I just don't know what I would do for a job... maybe I will figure something out, haha. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I would recommend a trip to the Bruce Peninsula for anybody and everybody. I can't wait to go back! If I hadn't injured my foot recently, I probably would have made another trip out there by now. Next time I will definitely be checking out Flowerpot Island! I wish I could spend the rest of Summer there...and Fall....</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02201455858983029999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477443929436499852.post-58908055275579054482014-08-06T13:05:00.002-04:002014-08-06T14:58:04.347-04:00Most Beautiful Place In Ontario - Day 2<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On my second day in the Bruce Peninsula, I woke up with sore legs and blisters all over my feet. We decided we would be taking it a bit easier that day. We packed all of our stuff into the car because we were </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">staying at a different Bed and Breakfast for the rest of our trip. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Our first stop of the day was to Devil's Monument. It is this huge natural formation of rocks. It is kind of like stacks of flat rocks. It's called a "flowerpot" because of the shape. It starts off thinner at the bottom and gets wider at the top. I had seen pictures of it before when I was researching which trails I should take in the Bruce Peninsula area and thought it didn't look that impressive. It is really cool in person though! Pictures just don't do it justice. It looks so small in my pictures, haha. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The trail we took was quite small. You walk through forest for a little bit (where we are sure we heard a rattlesnake right by the trail, we ran away so we didn't see it...) until you come to a set of stairs that leads down to a rocky area and towards the lake. You have to walk down the rocks to get to Devil's Monument and the lake is just beyond that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The area had a lot of stacked rocks like this and small waterfalls would come through the cracks. It was pretty!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After the Devil's Monument trail we drove down to Singing Sands beach. There was a trail there too, which we took. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I didn't take very many pictures at the beach. We went further along the shore to swim so there would be less people. That far down the beach wasn't very pretty. There were rocks and plants poking out of the sand. It was a very nice place to swim though. I couldn't believe how warm the water was!</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> It was a huge difference compared to swimming on the other side of the peninsula. You could walk into the water forever and not go past your waist. Lake Huron is the clearest lake I have ever been in. There were minnows swimming around and you could see them everywhere. If you stood still, they would come swim at your feet, it was so weird, haha.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The second day of our trip to the Bruce Peninsula was very laid back. It was a nice change from the exhausting day before but I was ready for more adventure by our third and last full day! </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02201455858983029999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477443929436499852.post-63462784651586148002014-07-27T13:32:00.002-04:002014-08-06T14:58:04.357-04:00Probably The Most Beautiful Place In Ontario - Day 1<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After seeing pictures of the Bruce Peninsula area on instagram, I knew I had to go there. It was so beautiful in pictures I couldn't even imagine how beautiful it would be in real life. I had a long weekend at the end of June for Canada Day, my sister and husband were off work as well. We ended up planning this trip pretty last minute. I learned that a ton of people go up to this area for long weekends in the summer. My husband hates camping, so that was out, every hotel was completely full, and it took ages for us to find a bed and breakfast that was available. The first one we did find was only available for the first two days of our trip. We booked it just in case we couldn't find anything else. Thankfully, we did end up finding another B&B for our last two nights. Because of our terrible planning skills, it ended up costing way more than I wanted to spend. It was worth it though. It was amazing up there. A couple days in I started looking up houses for sale in the area, haha. Before we left I purchased the Bruce Trail Reference Guide, which is available on the Bruce Trail <a href="http://brucetrail.org/pages/where-can-i-get-a-map" target="_blank">website</a> and also in a few book stores as well. It has maps of all of the areas of the Bruce Trail so I used it (along with google) to plan our hikes for the weekend. We weren't able to go everywhere I wanted to because one of the places on our list was an island and the boat rides to get there were ridiculously over-priced. I hope to go one day though! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We left Toronto on Thursday evening after I finished work. It was about a 4.5 to 5 hour drive to our first B&B. We stayed at <a href="http://www.moekes.ca/index.html" target="_blank">Moeke's Ankerstee B&B</a> for Thursday and Friday night. Ina was a wonderful host! She is very easy to get along with and nice to talk to! She also has the nicest dog in the world whose name escapes me at the moment...she was so sweet though! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our first night basically just consisted of us meeting Ina and then going to bed, since we arrived so late. We woke up early the next morning for a delicious breakfast of eggs, bacon, yogurt with fruit, tomatoes, and toast. The first day was our longest hike. Ina's B&B was closer to Lion's Head than our next B&B was so it obviously made sense to do our hike at Lion's Head while we were closer to it. In hindsight, putting the longest, most grueling hike first was probably not the greatest idea, haha. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">When I looked at the trail maps from my reference guide book, and searched the internet for tips, I found a loop at the Lion's Head trails. It was a 16 or 17km loop. I thought to myself "the average walking speed is about 4km/h so this should take us 4 hours and we can take an hour or 2 to stop and take in the sights". Little did I know that this trail was not like walking on a nice path, and you go up and down over and over. I imagined it would be the same as the trail my sister and I walked in Hockley Valley. It was wide and flat and easy. This trail was nothing like that at all. Rarely were we walking on anything but big rocks or boulders and tree roots. To make matters worse, I decided my most comfortable shoes were my Reebok Easy Tone runners. These shoes have balls on the heel and toes of your feet so that you are always off balance and using more muscles to walk. This does not go over well on ground that is already super uneven. I fell down once, almost twisted my ankle numerous times, and thinking back, I am lucky I didn't fall off the edge of a cliff and plummet to my death. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We were really not as prepared for this hike as we thought we were. We didn't bring enough actual food, or water for that matter, and it was over 7 hours of hard, fast walking. When we got to our first lookout and checked our trail map, we saw that we had barely gone anywhere and still had a whole huge loop to complete. This freaked us out so we barely had time to stop and take anything in and we had to keep going at a fast pace because we were worried we wouldn't make it out of the deep forest before sundown. There are dangerous animals that deep in the wilderness so we really didn't want to be there in the dark, haha. But let's start from the beginning!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We drove to Lion's Head and found the parking lot for the trail entrance that we planned to take. After sunscreening and bug-spraying up, we grabbed our backpacks and excitedly hurried onto the trail. A little ways in, on the side of the trail, there was this "pothole" made by glaciers. It was kind of cool! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In this area, the ground was still nice and foresty (as opposed to just huge boulders). I fell in love with walking on forest paths. The ground is so soft and bouncy. It is just so lovely to walk on! I wanted to take off my shoes and become an elf and live there forever....except the reference book warned us that there was a lot of poison ivy in the area so I did not do that, haha. It made me wish I lived in a time before concrete and asphalt. Imagine how nice it would be if we could walk on soft ground like that all the time. It just made me so happy for some reason. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I know this looks nothing like Hawaii, but I was reminded of it here. When I was in Hawaii this past December, I went to a black sand beach on the big island. It was stunning. I was so taken by the way the black of the sand, the blue of the ocean, and the green of the plants just went together so beautifully. When I was here, it was kind of the same idea except instead of black sand it was the white rock of the cliffs. It looked amazing with the green of the trees and the blue of the lake and the sky. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After this section we got to walk uphill back to the top of the cliffs...yay...haha. This was the part of the hike where we were completely alone. I felt like I could build a treehouse and live there and nobody would ever find out. Maybe I will someday, haha. Alright, now for a whole lot more pictures! It may just look basically like the same picture over and over to some people but I just love it there so much and think all the pictures are beautiful and can't get enough of this place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This rock jutting out looked like a gun, somewhere around this area was a place called Gun Point so we thought this might be why it's called that...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After these areas you go further into the forest, away from the lake. That is when we really tried to pick up the pace and get out of there before it got dark! We ended up having lots of time before the sun went down but we were so tired and hungry and just beat that we wanted to get back to the car as soon as we could. When we finally got to the side trail that would lead us back close to the trail that we started on, we were ecstatic and had a temporary energy renewal, haha. It took us over 7 hours to complete the entire loop and get back to our car. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The first thing I did when we got to the car was take off my shoes and change into sandals. Then we just sat in the car with the windows rolled down and the doors open, not just because it was so hot, but because we reeked of bug spray...I think we went a little overboard with it. We went to the first restaurant we saw and ordered huge meals. Even just getting out of the car and walking to the restaurant was a difficult task by this point. My legs were so tired and sore, haha. We could barely even eat our food, I guess out of exhaustion. We got back to the B&B around 5:30 or 6. We all had showers and laid in bed. Sara was asleep by about 6:30pm, haha. My husband and I stayed up reading for a couple of hours and were asleep around 8 or 8:30pm! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Immediately following the hike, I was thinking it was a terrible idea and we shouldn't have gone so far but after a couple of days, the bad memories started to fade and I found myself thinking about "next time"! I would definitely do it all over again...in better shoes...with more food and water...</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02201455858983029999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477443929436499852.post-52098178012616839782014-07-25T20:33:00.001-04:002014-07-25T20:55:47.282-04:0015 Places Before '15<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A 30 Before 30 List was a bad idea for me as a 26 year old...I am a very impatient person and I change my mind about things constantly. I still want to do most of the things on that list but I need a closer deadline and, realistically, I can't do all of those travel things with too much of a closer end point due to budget limitations. To go along with my impatient nature and never knowing what I want for long, I also get easily discouraged. I haven't picked up my guitar in months because I wasn't immediately good at it. The lack of things crossed off on my 30 Before 30 list is really discouraging to me. I think a fresh list with a closer deadline and more easily attainable goals will be better for me, so I started working on one. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I started my new list off as a 27 Before 27 List. I still need 9 more things to get to 27 though and am having trouble coming up with anything else. I even added things I wanted to do and already did over the past few months. A list that starts off with a few things crossed off makes me happier and makes it less frustrating for me, haha. I thought instead of doing 27 Before 27, I could do 15 Places Before '15. Most of the things on my list were places within a few hours drive from where I live so I think it makes the most sense! Here is my new list:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Point Pelee, ON</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-1000 Islands, ON</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-High Park in Toronto, ON</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Bruce Peninsula, ON</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Scarborough Bluffs, ON</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Watkins Glen State Park, NY</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Cheltenham Badlands, ON</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Algonquin Park, ON</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Toronto Island, ON</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Sandbanks Park, ON</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Killarney Park, ON</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Niagara on the Lake, ON</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Casa Loma in Toronto, ON</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Leslie Street Spit in Toronto, ON</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Don Valley Trails in Toronto, ON</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I will replace my 30 Before 30 List on the side of my blog with this list. I might change things on here randomly if I find different places I want to go to instead...</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02201455858983029999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477443929436499852.post-56597400482506195312014-07-25T00:01:00.000-04:002014-07-25T20:54:55.332-04:00Niagara Falls Wine and Beer Tour<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The first time I went to Niagara Falls was kind of a disaster. My sister came to visit me in Toronto one summer, before she moved here herself, and we drove up to Niagara Falls together that weekend. I had never been there before but heard it was a short drive away, only about an hour and a half. You can imagine my surprise when, 6 hours after leaving Toronto, we were just arriving. I knew it was a long weekend but was not prepared for that to make such a huge difference! We talked about turning back a few times during the drive but figured the traffic had to go away eventually. So we kept on driving, just praying to find a stretch where we could go faster than 20 km/h. By the time we got there we were miserable. We could not believe it had taken us so long to get there. Seeing the falls after that drive, rather than appreciating how beautiful it was, we were more like "this is what we drove over 6 hours for?!". It kind of put a bad taste in our mouth and ruined the experience for us. We ended up having an okay time but I was not excited to ever do that drive again. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">About a month ago I finally did it and it was really not bad at all! It was actually pretty enjoyable and we passed some pretty sights which I guess I was too angry to pay attention to the first time. My husband and I drove up there for a weekend. I booked us a wine and beer tour with <a href="http://www.niagarafuntours.com/" target="_blank">Niagara Fun Tours</a>. We got to the hotel on Thursday evening and just took a quick walk around to check out all the weird tourist traps that, once again, I never saw on my first trip there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My husband warned me that it was pretty stupid and tacky and, after seeing it for myself, I agreed completely. I don't get the point of wax museums, they don't interest me in the slightest, and there was 3 or 4 of them in one little area! It was ridiculous. There was also a million haunted houses and just weird places that are designed all colourful and flashy and loud so children cry and beg their parents to go spend money. The one kind of cool thing was the Ferris wheel which goes high enough that you look down on the falls but it was really overpriced so we didn't even go on it. After wandering a bit we went down to the falls just to look at them quickly before heading to our hotel for the night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The next morning was our wine and beer tour. We walked over to Starbucks for some quick breakfast snacks (which were way more expensive than usual) and waited for the bus at the tour pickup spot. My husband and I were the last two people on the bus and, apparently, I had filled in the tour booking thing wrong on the website so the bus had one too many people. The driver announced that anyone who sat up front on the floor would get a free bottle of wine so I obviously jumped at the chance, I will do many things for wine, haha. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The tour was really fun, we stopped at a brewery first. It had a restaurant inside as well which was all farm to table. Everything is fresh. We didn't get a chance to eat there but next time I'm back I would love to go there for lunch or dinner. I believe it was called Taps. We did eat lunch at the second brewery and it was really good! It was the Syndicate Brewery. Next up were the wineries!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Our first winery was Diamond Estates. This is where I got my delicious free bottle of wine for sitting on the floor, haha. We tried a few wines, I was hoping this tour would get me more into red wines but it didn't. The Niagara region is famous for it's ice wines so we tried a few of those. I'm not a huge fan of those either since they are so sweet but they taught us how to taste them properly and it made them a bit nicer, but still too sweet for me. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The next winery was konzelmann winery. It was I think the 4th winery to start in the region, now there are hundreds (I think...don't quote me on that). It was beautiful, right on Lake Ontario. I liked the white wine here a bit better than the one we tried at diamond but this winery didn't have real ice wine, they had dessert wine. We tried a Shiraz here, I've never tried it before, it was weird. It was so peppery! My favorite part about this winery was the land. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I forget the name of the third winery, it was my least favorite. Kind of boring. We ended the tour by stopping at a peanut shop that had all different flavours of peanuts and some chocolate and ice cream. It was a nice end to the tour. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We got dropped off back at our hotel and went out for dinner at Outback Steakhouse because I love that place and we don't have many of them in Canada so I get excited when I see them... That night there were fireworks over the falls. We could see them from our hotel room and we kind of wanted to just hang out in the jacuzzi and have some of my free wine that night, haha. The fireworks looked really cool, even just from our window! They even had fireworks that looked like the falls! It was really cool! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was a really nice weekend! Even my husband really liked it and said we should do more things like that and he hates doing things, haha. I'd consider that a success!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02201455858983029999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477443929436499852.post-87962168537509105522014-07-24T21:47:00.001-04:002014-07-25T15:01:02.070-04:00Hockley Valley Hike<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On the first weekend of June my sister asked me if I wanted to go on a hike somewhere with her. We originally planned to just go to a park in Toronto and wander around. Sara had been looking at a website earlier with different hikes in and around Toronto and decided she would like to do the Hockley Valley hike mentioned on the site. We drove up there, parked the car at the small lot by the hike entrance and wandered onto the trail. It is part of the Bruce Trail that goes across a large portion of Toronto...either that or it was one of the side trails off of the Bruce Trail...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was a really beautiful hike. It took us less than an hour and it was a loop that took us right back to the entrance so we would be close to our car at the end of the hike. The trail was through a small, thin-treed forest. We went at a terrible time because it was close to dusk and the mosquitoes were so awful! We didn't bring bug spray and we were both wearing shorts and a tank top. If we had planned to leave Toronto from the beginning we might have thought to bring some supplies and dress a bit better for hiking, but it wasn't until we had driven a bit that we decided to leave the city. While we were walking, the bugs weren't too bad, so we just kept moving at a brisk pace. Whenever we stopped to take pictures we ended up jumping around and then running away, haha. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The forest and the trail was beautiful. The pictures don't do it justice. It was very peaceful. I would love to go back and do a longer hike there. The sunlight streaming through the trees in the forest looked magical. I wish I could have taken longer to stop and admire everything and take more pictures, but the mosquitoes kind of ruined that...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">For some reason there was this super old car in the middle of the forest on the trail...I have no idea why it was there or how it got there or anything! It was pretty weird!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This hike was really nice even though it was quite short. We passed a few people on the trail but not very many, we felt pretty alone for most of the hike which was kind of nice. After doing this hike, I looked into the Bruce Trail a bit more. I could not believe some of the beautiful scenery around the trail, especially further north at the Bruce Peninsula. I knew I had to see it in person....but that is another entry!</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02201455858983029999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477443929436499852.post-47585315521671261122014-07-24T21:05:00.000-04:002014-07-25T15:01:40.898-04:00Toronto Zoo<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">At the beginning of June, my husband and I spent a few hours at the Toronto Zoo. The last and only other time I was there was about 6 years ago when we visited Toronto, before we moved here. It is a really nice zoo! There are a lot of different animals to see and it is just a nice way to spend a Summer day. I didn't take that many pictures but got some of my favorite animals there haha.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My favorite was this polar bear. He was so cute! He had this little circuit that he would swim in. He would fall onto his back in the water and just float towards the wall where he would push off of it with his cute little paw to go back to where he started his swim from and then he would flip over onto his paws and start again. It was adorable and so fun to watch! I wanted to keep him. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">There was a nice little enclosure full of butterflies which was really cool! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">One of my other favorite little guys was the baby giraffe, it was sooo cute! I love giraffes in general so it was really cool seeing the baby!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Actually, I had a hard time deciding if the polar bear was my favorite or if the penguins were my favorite...They were African Penguins I think. They were so fun! You could watch them from above and see them walking around or you could go below and there was an aquarium-type wall where you could see into their swimming area and man can they swim! It was so cool seeing them swim around under the water! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I know this is way too many pictures of swimming penguins but I just love them, haha. This wasn't a very exciting post, I should have taken more pictures! It was really fun though! The funniest thing was probably the fact that they had raccoons on display. We see raccoons almost every day outside of our house so we thought it was pretty strange that they had a display for them, haha. There are more than 3 animals at the Toronto Zoo...I am just not great at documenting...</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02201455858983029999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477443929436499852.post-78015963140585823072014-07-24T20:02:00.003-04:002014-07-25T20:54:55.339-04:00Casa Loma & St. Lawrence Market<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">St. Lawrence Market was one of the items I crossed off of my Explore my City list recently. I think I should go back now that Summer is in full swing. It was a weekday when I went and the weather was not great. I think more shops would be open now that it's a lot nicer out, especially if I went on a weekend. Despite a lot of the shops being closed and the small amount of people there, I really enjoyed St. Lawrence Market. There were so many food options it was ridiculous! Basically any type of food you can think of you could probably find there. You can also buy fresh groceries there, lots of fish and seafood and delis and butcher-like shops. I went for the fish and chips while my sister had sushi. I also had a latte from a tiny little coffee shop which was delicious! I wish I would have taken some pictures while I was there. I will have to make sure to take some next time I end up there!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Another thing from my Explore my City list was going to Casa Loma. It was really cool! I did not end up taking any pictures inside, I actually liked it better from the outside! If anyone is reading this and doesn't think they want to spend the money to explore Casa Loma, you should at least go there to see it from the outside and check out the gardens surrounding it. There was some beautiful furniture inside though, it might have been more interesting had we opted for the audio tour. The tunnel walk to the stables is really interesting. There are old, dark pictures all along the tunnel walls with really sad descriptions...pretty neat to see. I want to go back just to explore outside. We didn't go far into the gardens because we were really hungry so we didn't want to spend too much time there and we wanted to see the inside since that is what we paid for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">From the outside, this place is like being in a fairy tale. It's beautiful and magical. I will definitely be back. Wandering around the gardens is a very cool, free thing to do in Toronto! I love it! </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02201455858983029999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477443929436499852.post-86981282348324495212014-07-24T19:30:00.000-04:002014-08-06T13:06:33.872-04:00Toronto Island<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I went to Toronto Island with my sister at the end of May. We drove down to the Harbour area and walked over to the ferries. It was a really short ride but I loved it, I love being on the water. On the way to the island we had beautiful views of the Toronto skyline, but they were probably even better on the island itself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: start;">We walked across to the other side of the island where there is a nude beach and then a regular beach, walking that way it seemed like we could walk straight across to downtown Toronto, it looked so close behind the trees! We stepped onto the beach for a bit just to check out the lake from that side. It was very windy, choppy, and filled with sail boats. It was pretty cool to see. My sister and I have decided we really want to take a sailing lesson someday, or at least get onto a sail boat! I think I would add that to my 30 Before 30 List if I were to redo it.</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: start;">There is a cute little theme park on the island, with tiny little rides for young children and overly priced snacks. We did sit down in one of the restaurants to have some food and a couple of drinks though. It was my first time sitting out on a patio this summer, it ended up being pretty cold by then but was still a nice experience! There is an old lighthouse that has a cool story, apparently the lighthouse keeper was murdered there and his body was never found. People say it is haunted now. We could have actually gone inside the lighthouse but there was a huge lineup so we decided we would rather spend our time discovering the rest of the island.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It's a very cute, calm little island and the views of Toronto are just beautiful but it's not really a place I would go back to anytime soon. It seems to me like kind of a one-time thing to do.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02201455858983029999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477443929436499852.post-74351857074741513232014-07-24T19:07:00.000-04:002014-07-24T19:45:29.909-04:00Guildwood Park<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After seeing the Scarborough Bluffs, I started looking into other parks around my area and found out about a really cool one called Guildwood Park. The story behind it is pretty interesting. It used to be a colony for artists and their families. It is littered with pieces of old Toronto buildings. There are archways and sculptures from the early 1900's and even some architecture pieces from the 1800's. Most of the pieces seemed to be from old banks from downtown Toronto. It was a very cool place to wander around. Most of the items had descriptions somewhere on them explaining where it was from and what year it was built in. There are also nice forested trails and a great view of Lake Ontario as it is right along the Scarborough Bluffs (further down from where I explored last time). A lot of people do wedding photography here! Below are some photos I took on my iPhone when I was there back in May. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The picture below is a part of the Temple Building which was built in 1896 and was Toronto's tallest building for a few years. It was one of the city's first skyscrapers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Guildwood Park also contains the oldest building in Scarborough, Ontario!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This park is really quite nice. I love that it's so different. It's awesome seeing pieces of old Toronto and being able to better imagine how downtown Toronto looked 100 years ago. Makes you wonder why they would change any of those buildings, they must have been beautiful...</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02201455858983029999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477443929436499852.post-39132911250671577782014-07-24T17:56:00.000-04:002014-07-25T20:54:55.325-04:00The Scarborough Bluffs<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Well I completely failed at the "Three things in Two Months" plan. I have been doing a lot of exploring in my city though, and kind of getting into the travel spirit that way. I feel like I am getting better at finding things to do and escaping my boring bubble. I crossed a few more things off of my "Explore my city" list, but when I look at it now, I am just not as interested in doing a lot of the things on there anymore, same with my regular 30 Before 30 list which I mentioned before. I'm discovering more things I would like to do around Toronto and Ontario that would be way cooler than some of the things I put on my list before. I'm so happy it's summer now and I can spend weekends exploring and doing cool things and just living!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The things I crossed off my actual Explore My City list were:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Take a Ferry to Toronto Island</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Visit Casa Loma</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">-Shop at St. Lawrence Market</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I did end up exploring quite a bit more than what was on my list. I recently moved to the Scarborough area because it is cheaper to live here. My new place happens to be extremely close to the Scarborough Bluffs, which I had never seen before or even cared to see. This is kind of where my exploring began and made me get out there and see as much as I could in the past couple of months. I had a week off of work in the middle of May. My first day off I decided I was going to explore my new neighborhood and check out the Scarborough Bluffs. There are a whole whack of parks along the Bluffs so there are quite a few places to go. I found one that was only about a 10 minute walk from my place. It is called "Scarborough Bluff's Park". There is a small fence that attempts to prevent you from getting too close to the edge of the Bluffs but you can't really see anything from back there so most people just step right over them. I was in awe when I got close enough to the edge to see out towards the lake. I could not believe that this view was so close to where I lived, still right in the city. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I took this picture with my iPhone thinking "this is the most beautiful picture I have ever taken!" haha. I bet it would be even nicer now that the trees are green. I love how the water changes colours. I don't know if you can tell but there's teeny specks down there which are birds on the lake. After seeing this I was so excited to continue along and see what else I could see. From up here, looking the opposite way, I saw a marina and a nice walking path down at the water so I decided I'd try to make my way down there next. This was my path down....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was even steeper than it looks! I was carrying my huge purse, wearing non-hiking boots... Anyway, this lead me right to the entrance of the marina. There was a walking path that went out into the lake a bit with great views of the Scarborough Bluffs from below. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I wish you could tell how big they were, the pictures don't do it justice. Oh well! I knew that further along the lake there was a park called Cathedral Bluff's Park. It was supposed to be really beautiful so I decided to head that way. I was hoping I could walk along the lake and find a way up to the top of the bluffs later on. I ended up walking for quite a while until I came upon a small beach. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">By the time I got to Cathedral Bluff's Park I was incredibly thirsty so I ended up walking back home after this which is when I realized I was extremely sunburned. It was the worst sunburn of my life!! It wasn't even that hot outside so I was really surprised at how badly I burned. Since then I have been making sure to have sunscreen on when I am out in the sun for more than a few minutes so at least I learned my lesson! </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02201455858983029999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477443929436499852.post-21302531764577027432014-04-28T13:03:00.001-04:002014-04-28T13:03:34.394-04:00Three Things in Two Months<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Last night my sister and I decided we needed to do something about our lists. We weren't getting anywhere or doing anything. We decided we need to do more short term goals. We picked three things each that we wanted to finish and set a time limit. We have until July 1. The three things I chose off of my 30 Before 30 List are: play a musical instrument, learn to cook, and finish a fitness program. To do this I will learn one new song on the guitar every week, cook one new recipe from scratch every week, and I chose a 30 day fitness DVD set to complete, it is called ZCut Power Cardio. The workouts are nice and short but difficult. It's HIIT exercises. The DVDs came with a one month calendar to follow along with. I will be starting it tonight after work! Wish me luck...</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02201455858983029999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477443929436499852.post-38705805158932896642014-04-27T11:07:00.000-04:002014-04-27T11:07:02.200-04:00It's been a while.<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I can't believe it's been over a month since the last time I wrote anything...oops! I just haven't had a lot to write about I guess. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I cancelled my first credit card and the other one is now paid off. I am getting a new credit card in the mail soon so once I get that one I will cancel the other one. I will be getting flight points for this credit card. I also applied for another credit card that earns me Aeroplan points, and I am going to apply for one more if I get approved for this first one. My husband is going to apply for the same ones. If we both get approved for both cards, and spend 500$ on each card in the first 3 months of having the cards, we will each get 55,000 aeroplan points! I am using 40,000 of them for my flight to Mexico in January. We can transfer points between us but it costs money I think, less than it would cost us for a flight though! So together we will have 70,000 points, we will need only 10,000 more for our one way flights to Australia. We are planning to use our cards for everything and take advantage of as many bonus offers as we can to make sure we get the most points. We are going to use our other flight cards (the one that is in the mail right now, and my husband has the same card already) to book a round trip flight to New Zealand from Australia (once we are there). We will only need 7500 more points for that! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I think I will be changing a lot of things on my 30 before 30 list as well. It wasn't a good idea to make it so far in advance of my 30th birthday. It's only been about 4 months and I have already changed my mind about stuff I thought I wanted to do, haha, Imagine how it will be in 3 years when I am just a few months away from being 30! I thought about doing a new list every year, this year would be 27 before 27, but I would only have about 6 months to complete the first list. It would be really difficult since I will be saving all of my money for Australia...I will have to keep thinking about it...</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02201455858983029999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477443929436499852.post-52943318979323160502014-03-13T21:39:00.001-04:002014-03-13T21:39:17.541-04:00Losing Steam<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Lately I've been feeling like Australia may never happen. I always come up with big plans like this and they always fall through. I'm already wondering if moving to a new, smaller apartment (in a much less awesome area of town) is the right choice because the only reason we are doing it is to save more money and because we don't plan to be here for that much longer. If we don't end up doing our working holiday in Australia it would be really annoying that we moved away from an area I love for no reason. I talked to my husband a bit about how I just really hope we end up actually doing this. He hopes so too. He said if we, for some reason, don't end up going to Australia, at least we will have paid off all our debt. Then we can go somewhere else for a month or two. So at least if we don't go to Australia we will go <i>somewhere</i>. I'm probably just feeling discouraged because we have kind of flopped back into our ways of ordering take out every night and I have been going to Starbucks a lot more again. I just need to get re-motivated. Maybe I will try to find some more travel books to read....</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02201455858983029999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477443929436499852.post-13721710922381100242014-03-03T20:59:00.001-05:002014-03-03T20:59:36.051-05:00We Found It!<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We were planning on finding a 3 bedroom apartment to share with my sister and her friend, we found one that I really loved, it was exactly what I was looking for! Unfortunately, not everyone agreed on it so my husband and I decided we would try our luck finding an apartment ourselves or just stay where we are. Luckily, in the same house as the 3 bedroom apartment, they had a one bedroom available for 900$! It is beautiful too, newly renovated, all new appliances, nobody has lived in it since it was renovated. We would have our own little patio too! We applied for it this weekend and just found out we were approved! We move in April 1! We will save almost 400$ a month, plus we will be closer to work so we will save on gas too. It is smaller than our place now which is kind of what I wanted because it will force us to get rid of our stuff faster.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I paid off one of my credit cards yesterday! As soon as the payment goes through I am going to cancel the card completely. I only have a little more than 1000$ left to pay off on my other credit card. Unfortunately, I don't think I will be able to pay it off by the end of the month like I was planning. With this move we have to give first month's rent and last month's rent. The last month's rent was not in my budget at all so it kind of sucks. On top of that, my husband's birthday is at the beginning of April and I want to get him a good present this year since he paid for me to go to Jamaica for my birthday (and Christmas) present. I always seem to be not working when his birthday comes around so I feel like I never end up getting him anything, or at least not anything good. It's his first birthday since we have been married too so I want it to be awesome.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02201455858983029999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477443929436499852.post-84854605276311145072014-02-23T13:39:00.002-05:002014-02-23T14:05:29.554-05:00Feeling pretty accomplished...even though I haven't accomplished anything yet...<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I am sitting here eating my favorite food in the world (super spicy chicken biryani), drinking my favorite drink at the moment (Pepsi...out of a can...it doesn't taste as good in bottles...haha), and feeling pretty darn good about myself! I just filed my tax return and am going to be getting a lot more money back than I thought! I did the math and fixed my budget and I will have all of my credit cards paid off by the end of next month!!! Plus I will be able to save a bit of money after that, before my job ends, in case I am out of a job for a month or two after this one. My husband will have his credit card paid off by the end of the month as well and then we just have to start working on the line of credit! I am so pumped for life right now!! </span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So far my favorite part is when he makes you think about what it is you want to do that you have been putting off, or that you don't think you <i>can </i>do, and basically ask yourself what the absolute worst case scenario would be if you just went for it. For me, I was thinking about just taking off for Australia right now, not paying off our debt first, not saving up money, just going. My worst case scenario looked a little like this:</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My already bad credit score would get a lot worse, and my husband's decent credit score </span></i></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="text-align: center;">would become terrible instead, because we couldn't afford to make payments on any of our</span><span style="text-align: center;"> debt. We would never be able to get a mortgage and probably </span><span style="text-align: center;">not even be able to rent an </span><span style="text-align: center;">apartment due to our terrible credit. Our car would sit around not driving while we tried </span><span style="text-align: center;">to pay</span><span style="text-align: center;"> </span><span style="text-align: center;">hundreds of dollars </span><span style="text-align: center;">a month on the loan we used to buy the car. We wouldn't be able </span><span style="text-align: center;">to get working holiday visas </span><span style="text-align: center;">because you have to have 5000$ in your bank account (each) </span><span style="text-align: center;">before they will grant you one</span><span style="text-align: center;">...</span><span style="text-align: center;">but I guess if we tried really hard we could find work under </span><span style="text-align: center;">the table...and maybe we could </span><span style="text-align: center;">work for </span></i><i><span style="text-align: center;">accommodation</span></i><i><span style="text-align: center;"> too or at least stay somewhere really cheap, like a terrible hostel. </span><span style="text-align: center;">Then maybe we could still afford the minimum payments on our credit cards and loans. But </span><span style="text-align: center;">what about all of our stuff? I guess we could just throw it all away, or donate it, or put up signs </span><span style="text-align: center;">in our apartment building for a moving sale...If we really couldn't make ends meet in Australia </span><span style="text-align: center;">we could go somewhere cheaper to live, with more laid back laws about working holidays or </span><span style="text-align: center;">working abroad. If we failed that too we could come </span><span style="text-align: center;">back to Toronto and get jobs in our </span><span style="text-align: center;">i</span><span style="text-align: center;">ndustry and make the money back pretty fast. If not, we could get jobs at Tim Hortons or </span><span style="text-align: center;">McDonalds and live with the in-laws. Credit scores can get back to normal eventually.... </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;">It's just funny how you can give reasons that sound legitimate but all they really are is excuses. If we </span><i style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;">really</i><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center;"> wanted, we could leave now. I would feel a lot better if we paid our debt off first though, hahaha. If we leave all full of debt with no savings, we wouldn't be able to stay as long or feel as free I think. There I go making excuses again ;) but seriously, it's funny how you start to realize that everything is fixable and nothing that is going to happen is going to be the end of the world. Kind of fun to think about.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02201455858983029999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477443929436499852.post-19379798024567740722014-02-01T22:53:00.000-05:002014-02-01T23:14:42.700-05:00My First Second City Show<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I went to my first Second City show tonight. It was awesome! I totally want to see another one now! I was literally crying I was laughing so hard for one of the sketches! We ended up sitting right at the front, like my feet were touching the stage. Our table was right up against it, it was a lot closer than I expected. This was the stage. I had to lean back to take this picture, haha. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> It was exciting to cross my first item off of my "Explore My City" list (or any list...). I took away one of the items on the list as well. I used to have "Go to 10 new restaurants or bars". I just don't think this goes along with my <i>bigger</i> goal of paying off my debt and saving up enough money to get to Australia. I'm trying really hard to only eat at home and not waste money at restaurants. Having the excuse of <i>needing</i> to try ten new restaurants would just sabotage my efforts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I failed my 365 project. I am going to start it all over again today, haha. I think I might add a page to my blog for my 365 Project to keep me a bit more accountable... </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02201455858983029999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8477443929436499852.post-79093319477444882432014-02-01T17:01:00.000-05:002014-02-01T17:01:17.772-05:00Hence Number 16. <span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A couple nights ago, I decided to make some dinner. Mostly because I am trying to save money by not eating out everyday. Although, I also feel like I should learn how to cook because it's a pretty necessary skill to have. So I decided to make tacos. That's right, this is a story about how I failed at making tacos. The kind that comes in a kit and lists the step by step instructions.... I thought I was doing okay at first, except the ground beef felt really rubbery because I overcooked it I guess. I had placed the hard and soft taco shells on a cookie sheet in the oven to warm them up. I took them out of the oven after 5 minutes and peeled the tin foil off of the soft taco shells. Then I grabbed the cookie sheet with my bare hands to move it out of the way. For some reason I forgot that hot things burn you. My one finger got it pretty badly and even developed a bit of a blister. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">After I iced my finger for a while, I set up everything proudly, ready to display my masterpiece. My husband asked me where the cheese was. I completely forgot about it. Not a huge deal, but pretty ridiculous because, well, duh. I take the block of cheese out of the fridge in a hurry, grab a plate out of the cupboard, and accidentally whip it onto the floor, where it proceeds to smash into pieces. It might be helpful to note here that I smashed a wine glass the day before when I was trying to put it away. It occurred to me that I should start breaking them when they're dirty instead of clean. At least that way I would get out of doing a couple of dishes! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">My husband cleaned up the glass while I grated cheese onto a new, non-broken plate. The tacos were okay. Definitely not worth the trouble I went through to make them. Hence number 16. I really need to learn to cook. This is pretty pathetic. I am taking baby steps...maybe making tacos was too big of a step up. I should stick to chicken fingers, french fries, and plain pasta, haha. Tonight I will be boiling up some frozen perogies and smokies. That seems more my level right now...hahaha. Once I can make macaroni and cheese without screwing up I will try my hand at some recipes. For now I am just focusing on making stuff so I don't have to order food and can save money. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Last night I made my first attempt at starting to like beer. The reason this is even on my list at all is because I've wanted to be able to drink beer since I first started drinking. It's generally the most convenient and cheapest thing to drink. If I am going to eventually be travelling to a few different places, I think it would be cool to be able to try different types of beer from all kinds of different places. I hate the taste of beer, so I think this will be kind of hard. There was a time when I felt the same way about wine though, and now I love wine! I think if I just keep trying and maybe work my way up from less bitter beers I should be able to do this. My husband brought me home one beer that I liked because it was actually 60% juice and only 40% beer hahaha. It was pretty good. He also bought me a wheat beer which are supposed to be more sweet. I didn't get through very much of that one. It was icky. I will have to try a few different ones, maybe I will find one I actually like. I'm sure I can acquire the taste eventually! </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02201455858983029999noreply@blogger.com0