went to toronto on thursday, plan was to go niagara on friday, buffalo on saturday and toronto island on sunday. a busy weekend planned ahead. but we all know, the best laid plans of mice and men...

so friday i ended up wandering around toronto, looking for car rentals, eating pancakes and nice breakfasts, and i cut my hair at this random place where i argued with the hairstylist (i should say haircutter person) before realising that it's quite rather scary to have someone gesticulating wildly at you with a razor in hand screaming "i am hairstylist, i know how to cut, you no tell me, just tell me how long!" twas muchly stressful, but i escaped largely unscathed, and made it to the Fifth for some cheap CAD$3 drinks (yes that's considered cheap all you europe exchangers). and i won't even begin to talk about the dress code and black shoes and how coming from kingston obviously i wouldn't have had any and thus i was declined entry into the club on the basis of the non-formality and conformality of my shoes, and oh wait i just did.

saturday was spent at niagara, though not in the way i'd planned, we went to the factory outlets there. not many photos to show for it, but hey, who lugs a camera around shopping? that said, i still wonder whether it was worth the shopping to be stuck for 2 hrs in a traffic jam crossing the border, and to have to calculatedly decide how much shopping to declare in order to pay the tax (speaking of which, i understand the concept of protection of trade, but some things just get mildly ridiculous sometimes..) shopping was good though, but i shudder to think of what will happen in dec with woodbury and boxing day sales...