Friday I started the day we another run through Mount Pleasant Cemetery. Although the sun was shining with 5 degrees Celsius it was pretty cold outside. In the afternoon I did some household things like cleaning the kitchen cabinets so the look prettier and some rearranging in our condo.

Around 4:15 pm I took the subway from Eglinton Station to St. Patrick Station to pick up Sabrina from her work. We decided to grab something to eat in downtown Toronto. Because the weather was still nice we first walked around and this was for me the first time to come so close to the CN Tower. Just for your information this is what Wikipedia says:

“The CN Tower is a 553.33 m-high (1,815.4 ft) concrete communications and observation tower in Dowtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Built on the former Railway Lands, it was completed in 1976, becoming the world’s tallest free-standing structure and world’s tallest tower at the time. It held both records for 34 years until the completion of Burj Khalifa and Canton Tower in 2010. It remains the tallest free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere, a signature icon of Toronto’s skyline, and a symbol of Canada, attracting more than two million international visitors annually.”

We walked around in this area and as we walked around looking at the beautiful Lake Ontario (one of the five Great Lakes of North America) we ended up for dinner at Amsterdam’s Brewhouse, which is a lakeside brewery with lots of different beers. We got a nice table on the first floor and both ordered a delicious burger and of course beer! Tis restaurant is really good and I definitely need to come back to this place with Sander.

After dinner we walked back to the subway station and decided to walk a little bit through downtown. Toronto by night is very beautiful but with an iPhone difficult to make good pictures, but we will definitely come back here with our camera to take pictures of Toronto by night. We walked through the entertainment district with its theaters and lots of bars and restaurants. From Osgoode Stations we took the subway bank to Eglinton Stations where both of our condos are.

On Saturday Sander was arriving from Germany. His plane landed at 12:30 pm at Toronto Pearson International Airport and 1,5 hours later he was home. Quickly he took a shower and not much later Sabrina took us to the Dealership in Richmond Hill to pick up our car. there everything took longer as expected, but to make a long story short. We drove away with off course our Chevrolet Equinox and an extra $100 dollar gift card for gas.

On our way to the Dealership we saw that not far from here there was an All Star Wings & Ribs restaurant, so we decided to get dinner there together and again it was delicious. We ordered 50 Wings with 3 different flavours: Pandora’s Box, Creole BBQ and Caesar Does Texas and in the meanwhile we watched an ice hockey game on the TV in our booth.

After dinner we drove home and drank something at our condo, after which it was time to go to bed and after being awake for so lang Sander was really tired.

On Sunday we decided to make it more of a lazy Sunday, which afterwards was not that lazy after all. Last week I received a phone call from Crate & Barrel that our X-Base Bench-Vanity Stool had arrived at the Yorkdale locations and that we could come and pick it up. So at around 11:00 am we arrived at the Yorkdale Mall, we walked a bit around and picked up our Stool there. Next we decided to do some more furniture shopping and we went to Structube, because I saw some nice dining tables on their website which were also extendable. But as we saw them in the store, they were not that great so we drove further to the Blue Box in North York. It was extremely busy there and we walked through the store only watching the stuff we were really looking for, grabbed everything from the warehouse, went through the express checkout and left this crazy place as soon as possible with a Kallax shelving unit and a Bjursta dining table. Both in a black-brown color. The rest of the day we spent at our condo, Sander building the furniture together and I did some other stuff in our condo. In the evening we went out for dinner to Spring Rolls, a sushi restaurant only one block away from our place.