Thursday, September 07, 2006

Day 1: Toronto

My 4:30 am Wakeup for a 7:00 am flight meant that I ran on 3 hours sleep today, as I was up late into the night looking for my passport (I couldnt find it so that was a wash anyway) and packing. WestJet instead of an in flight movie now has inflight TV with commercials. I don't have TV at home and spending the morning watching daytime TV on a plane didnt thrill me. Needless to say, I got some reading done on the plane.
I spent the Afternoon after I landed getting into Downtown. I noticed right off the bat that, even though Surrey is Surrey, Greater Vancouver hasn't been ravaged anywhere near as much as cities back east by freeways. Outside of the downtown is a wasteland of multilane car dominance. At least our suburban wasteland has some trees.

I still dont have the Transit system figured out here, and I got screwed on the transfer system twice. The operators and station attendants are really uncourteous. Uncourteous is being diplomatic. (They laughed at my mom for not being able to get herself and baggage through the turnstyles at Union Station and wouldnt give any advice on how to get uptown, or that we needed to get a transfer there at point of payment and not where it makes sense, like near the bus you want to get on.)

I tried for the life of me to find contact information for JP or Jessica-Karen, but it all is out of date, and for some reason I can not get into the clubhouse forum (where most of my friends update their contact info) because the link is Banned in the hotel.
If any of you guys can help with infos that would be great.
Today is another day in Toronto so I'll try not to look as happy as I did to be here as yesterday... I think they sense it and try to mess it up for you.

posted by B-Town @ 7:30 a.m.

2 Comments:

At 8:55 a.m., Blogger B-Town said...

I'ma gonna try to get to Coney Is.

Internet access seems to be spotty at best with my new laptop set up.

I'm going to post more (with pics) once I find a good free internet cafe.

 
At 9:13 a.m., Blogger Karen said...

Brendan, can you please call me, 204-962-8022, or email me.
Umm well I gues I can just tell you on here. I hope it's still ok for me to use you as my reference for the Cinema Paradiso fun. I assume that it is of course but the problem is your home phone is disconnected so I had to use your lab number because it's the only other one I have for you. Talk to me if this is a problem.

 

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