It has already been a couple of day since my last blog post, but a lot has happened since than.

On Wednesday I needed to be at our condo pretty early, because our bed was going to be delivered that day. We ordered everything (mattress, box spring and a metal frame) soon after we got the confirmation that the condo was ours. The delivery was going to take place somewhere between 09:30 am and 12:30 pm. I booked the service elevator for this time and after I drove with the subway from Yorkdale to Eglinton Station I was in the condo waiting for the people from The Brick to come.

I was waiting and waiting and at 12:15 pm still nobody was there or had even called me, so I decided to call them and ask because I was not sure the service elevator was going to be available after 12:30 pm. As I was expecting they were a little behind schedule and the woman at the other end of the line recommended to extend the booking on the service elevator with another hour. And shortly after I did I a received a phone call that they were one minute away from our building. I took the elevator down and told Iris at the concierge desk that the people from The Brick were almost there. She looked on her security camera and the truck was already at the loading dock. She opened the service elevator for them and a couple of minutes later the were installing the bed in our condo. About 30 minutes later everything was done and we had a bed in our condo. Me was very happy!!! Because my ironing-board is on the container I was not able to iron the bedding very well.

I took some pictures and sent them to Sander and quickly I was putting al the bedding ont he bed and our condo looked a little more like a home and Sander and I decided that we were going to leave the hotel today and sleep in our very own bed in our condo.

In the late afternoon I took the subway back to Yorkdale where I met Sander at the Yorkdale mall. We bought some last things at Home Outfitters and went to the hotel to pick up the last stuff from our hotel room. While Sander was checking out I packed the last things and after a short time we were ready to leave the hotel to go to our condo.

As we arrived at our condo it was already dark outside and before we went to sleep we were enjoying the beautiful view from our bedroom. Goodnight Toronto…

On friday morning Sander needed, off course, to go to work. He was driving together with his colleague, our neighbor from the South Tower. For me this was a day from mostly organizing our stuff in the condo, do laundry and some improvisation on ironing. In the afternoon I walked around on Yonge Street. The sun was shining but there was a really cold wind.

I the evening we went together with Martin, Sabrina and their visitors from Germany Lea and Anna to the Royal Ontario Museum for Friday Night Live (#FNLROM). On such an evening there is music and drinks at the museum floors. We saw the dinosaurs and danced on the dance floor. This event ended at 0:00 am and we took the subway back to our condo. Lea and Anna were going back to the condo and we went together with Martin and Sabrina to The Unicorn Pub where we had a bear and some finger food. We were back at the condo at 2:00 am. It was a really nice evening in Toronto.

On saturday we slept a little longer because the evening was going to be a long evening. We had tickets to go to Canada’s Wonderland Halloween Haunt including an all-you-can-eat-buffet at the park. But before we went to the park Sander and I did some research on furniture for our bedroom. Off course the bed was the most important thing but we also need a dresser and two night stands. We drove to the so-called blue box (IKEA) and saw a lot of different bedroom dressers and night stands. We bought one nightstand so we could see if it fits between our bed and the windows because we do not have a lot of room there.

From our little shopping trip we drove directly to Canada’s Wonderland, we had a reservation for the 5:30 pm buffet and after a short wait we were able to enter the park. Martin, Sabrina, Lea and Anna were already in the park and reserved a table for 6 at the restaurant. The buffet was OK and after everybody got his/her winter jacket from the car it was time for the Halloween Haunt.

During the Halloween Haunt Canada’s Wonderland is transformed in a somewhat creepy place. A lot of cast members are dressed like scary characters and there are a 10 mazes and an All New Zombies 4D Interactive Dark Ride.

We started with the first maze which was called “The Asylum”. The theme of this maze was a combination of prison and hospital with off course a lot of creepy characters. Soon we arrived at the next 2 mazes called “Blood Shed” with victims of the Headless Horseman and “Club Blood” the hottest nightclub where vampires staff the bar.

After those mazes it was time to do something more “relaxing” so we went for a ride in the Leviathan a 93 meter high roller coaster with a maximum speed of 148 km/h. I already mentioned we all were wearing winter jackets so you can believe that riding this coaster was pretty cold too.

After this amazing coaster we went to the next maze called Sci-Fi House, where you visit the Wilson family in their house where at night aliens take over. Till then this was the best maze. We directly found the next maze, called Clowns at Midnight where a big top fire doomed the circus performers to a slow and agonizing death.

For the next maze, Louisiana Scream, we waited about 20 minutes, but it was worth it. Here, deep inside Wonder Mountain, live residents of a Louisiana Bayou. It is a mysterious, twisted world where curses are whispered in the dark and no one ever makes it back to shore… Sounds creepy, right?

Next thing on our program was riding the Thunder Run, it is a coaster and that is practically all you can say about this ride. I was not very impressed about this ride. Next on the to-do-list was the All New! Zombies 4D Interactive Dark Ride. The wait for this ride was more than one hour, so it must be good. It is a ride you can compare with Toy Story Mania where you have to shoot Zombies. The theme of this ride is the movie World War Z. But I have to say, the 3D is not really that good as in Toy Story Mania. Because of the wait for this attraction everyone was getting a little cold, but there were still 2 mazes we wanted to do before we left the park.

One was called Terror of London, a Jack the Ripper themed maze where we were meeting with the residents of Whitechapel District. This maze was huge and therefore more difficult to see where a the character were. Last but not least we visited The Streets of the Undead, also based on the movie World War Z, and this maze was full with zombies. I think this was the best maze of the evening. Really great work of the cast members there.

To close the evening we planned to ride the other big coaster in the park, called the Behemoth. But this coaster was closed due to technical problems. To bad, because it is a great coaster with a lot of airtime. Before going to the car Sander, Martin and Sabrina went on the Psyclone while I waited with Lea and Anna and watched the people still getting scared by the characters. Slowly we walked to the exit and at about 0:00 am we were at our condo, all really tired.

On Sunday we went back to do some more condo-shopping and we were ending up at IKEA to buy another nightstand and the dresser we saw the day before. We also had lunch at a place called Spoon & Fork where we enjoyed all-you-can-eat sushi (and off course also some warm food).

In the afternoon Sander was busy building our nightstand and dresser together and finally installing our 2nd TV for our bedroom we bought at Walmart, together with some other groceries.

Tonight we are going to have a relaxed evening and tomorrow we are invited to Martin and Sabrina’s place to celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving, which is a national holiday so no working tomorrow.