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Day 6: Shopping queen…

Today we planned to take it easy. We woke up Danielle did some laundry and Emily took her morning nap in her crib. I took some pictures of the villa because we had a perfect blue sky. Unfortunately the temperature wasn’t perfect at 10:00am it was only 9 degrees Celcius.

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After Emily woke up we set the destination in our GPS to the International Premium Outlets because there are some interesting stores Tommy Hilfiger & Janie & Jack. Finally we got some heavy traffic, my hands were all shaky because I wasn’t in a single traffic jam for a whole week. I think you get addicted to them…

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Our little shopping queen (or should I say Fashionista?) was tired as soon as we picked her some fancy new clothes…

 
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For us it was time for a quick lunch in the food court before we went back home. On our way home we stopped at the nearby Target to get some food for the evening because we invited Jens (a colleague from Germany now based in Atlanta), Aušra and Julius for a barbecue.

Today our addictions got treated well, while putting Emily in bed one noise we hadn’t heard for almost a week was outside of the house: fire-truck with sirens! That’s enough for this trip please keep the traffic calm and the noise down!

Our friends arrived at 9:00pm and unfortunately it was a bit to fresh to enjoy the pool and we even decided to enjoy the food inside the house while with it only being 12 degrees outside it was simply to cold. We decided to call it a night just minutes ago while both Julius and Emily won’t understand the concept of sleeping a bit longer ad usually…

Lucky for us tomorrow will be a bit warmer as today as Jens, Aušra, Julius are joining us for a day of Magic in the Magic Kingdom!

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Condo improvements…

And it didn’t look as good as we hoped. The place looked really empty after our beautiful Christmas tree was gone…

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Needless to say we went shopping in furniture stores on this clouded Saturday morning to look for possible solutions for this gap in our living room. We had some ideas but we wanted to see them for real instead of online pictures. We are in general in-store shoppers instead of online shoppers except for electronics and media. After we checked out the first the Restoration Hardware Outlet Store in the Toronto Premium Outlets in Halton Hills, we saw some nice things but nothing for that empty spot so we left soon while it started to snow a little bit.

On the way towards the outlets we had checked out Pier1 and Urban Barn before it started to snow for real. We decided to have a warm lunch instead of a dinner and went to Montana’s Cookhouse. It’s a nice restaurant with a lot of theming inside and a nice and cozy fireplace. Danielle had a dish with chicken, mushroom sauce and rice but I tried something new… It’s called the Chicken Waffle Club Sandwich it’s described in the following way: “Between two flame-grilled Belgian sugar waffles, we sandwich our southern fried chicken breast with maple sriracha, lettuce, tomato, mayo and 2 strips of double-smoked bacon, and serve it with your choice of fries. Why waffles? Because bread needs a lunch break too. I can tell you the first half was delicious, but the second half was just too much. I didn’t finish my plate and wasn’t hungry for the rest of the day…
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Danielle drove back home to practice her snow-driving skills by driving through this snowstorm and it went well, although there was some slow-traffic we were back home in 30 minutes (3 minutes delay).

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On sunday the weather was beautiful and we still hadn’t found the perfect solution for our living room so we decided towards Lawrence and Avenue to visit the Royal Lighting store, on the way their we walked into my boss which is quite funny in a city of over 2.6 million people about 4km from your place. After we came back Danielle did her magic in the kitchen as more nights during the first workweek of 2015.

During the week the temperature dropped towards -19 degrees Celsius and I can tell you that ain’t fun, especially not when it feels like -27 due to the windchill. And off course I needed to get gas on the coldest evening of the week. Lucky for me the gas price gave me a warm feeling and I had fun paying with only 0.919$/liter (0.66 EUR). Later that week prices dropped another 2 cents.

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Friday evening we went to dinner at the Against the Grain Tavern about 4 km from our place, we both had a delicious burger and I even had a German Style Weizen. The first one since we left Germany and from a new brewery and it tasted great.

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During the week we came to the conclusion that a planter would be the perfect solution for the empty space and I found something nice near Mississauga, the Lechuza Store. It is a German brand with a very unique solution which means you only need to water your plants once every 12 weeks, I believe that’s perfect for us since we never had a plant in our house before.

Saturday morning early we first picked up the still missing nightstand lamp from Crate & Barrel, we checked out the Tommy Hilfiger store since they are starting to get the nicer European Collection in the store for this season (previously they only had the Outlet & Macy’s collection). And after a coffee stop at the Starbucks we drove to the Lechuza store.

After looking around at this combined Playmobil and Lechuza Store. Yes they sell both and maybe a fun fact is, all the Lechuza products are produced in Zirndorf, a town in Franconia about 30 minutes away from our former home. We found the perfect planter, the Rondo 40 and it was on sale. But the planter only wasn’t everything we needed a plant 2 which we found at the Home Depot in Brampton.

Close to that Home Depot we found a Applebee’s, which we didn’t knew that it existed in Canada. You can guess our lunch was covered. Afterwards we drove back home. Here we installed the new stuff, I tested out or I had green fingers. Doesn’t it look professional in the kitchen?

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And then we started on the next project, a new storage solution for our more than 900 DVDs. Due to multiple messed up deliveries from Amazon we couldn’t start this project earlier (our first time ordering was in November) and now after the 5th shipment we finally got a part of the correct items.

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Still waiting for one other and then I’m ordering the rest to finish this project, hopefully it’s finished next weekend because that would mean that everything is unpacked.  But now it’s time for a movie…and it’s hard to pick one if you just had 900 going through your hands…

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