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Monday was a travel day. It wasn’t the usual travel day though. At like 7 am I heard someone banging on a door in the hallway but didn’t think anything of it. I tried to fall back asleep but about 15 minutes later I heard it again but it was louder. I went to check out the peep hole but couldn’t see too much since it was dirty. What I could make out however was someone lying on the floor right in the middle of the hall in front of my door. It was pretty weird. The girl looked like she was lying there naked. I could hear her talking to herself. A lady across the hall opened up her door and started talking to her since she had been knocking on her door. The lady seemed confused as to why this girl was naked in the middle of the hall. She said to her “do you realize you’re naked?”. I think the girl was high on something or perhaps took too much of her pills. The lady was nice enough to give her a towel. Shortly after the hotel manager came up to try and sort things out. This girl didn’t even know her last name when the guy was asking her what it was. He kept asking her what room she was staying in and couldn’t get a response from her. Finally he brought her downstairs to call someone to come pick her up after they gave her a robe of course.

After that was all over I checked to see if I still had some time left in my 24 hour internet access that I paid $10 for. Sure enough I managed to get one post out. I tried to post a second but it failed and didn’t save. My time had run out.

I paid the $42 of parking at the hotel and left shortly after 9 am. The GPS guided us west on Dundas to get out of town. I think it may have been faster if we took the Gardiner Expressway or something like that but we managed to get onto the 400. We stopped at Webbers to get some char grilled burgers before they close for the season. It was pretty good.

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So on Friday morning Jenn was thinking that we were going to Sudbury but really we were heading south to Toronto. I told her there was a bypass to go to Sudbury. It was pretty funny because she had no idea what was coming. About half an hour out of North Bay is when I told her. She was pretty surprised. We only got to Toronto mid afternoon and did some shopping at the Cookstown Outlet mall (where I spent a bit of money). I got the most comfy Campus Crew jogging pants. I also bought two hoodies and a pair of jeans.

Getting downtown was quite the task since it was rush hour. It also didn’t help that I forgot to take the 427 off of the 401 West. I think we ended up at a gas station in Oakville. I got directions from the clerk which convinced me not to buy a map since it was pretty easy to find. He was right, it wasn’t too hard to find after that.

We checked into our hotel probably around 6 pm and decided to go check out the Eaton Centre. We also met up with my cousins Jenna and Caryn at the mall. Jenn spent $350 on a coach purse and I couldn’t help but buy a GPS (Garmin Nuvi 250) so that I wouldn’t get lost anymore. I am pretty happy I got the GPS because it saved me lots of hassles on the weekend. It’s nice and small so I was able to bring it with me even when we walked places. We also got to visit the Apple store. It was hard to resist buying the new iPod Touch mind you they only had the 16GB model which I think it way overpriced. Nonetheless it’s still a very cool toy.

After the mall we went walking downtown and I convinced my cousin Caryn to go up the CN Tower. She is scared of heights so it was interesting. Here are some of the pictures I took on Friday.

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