Few more from the break

Last ten days with my family were so much fun that I cannot help but to post some more photos. Saying goodbye to them on Monday ( my sister already a day before that) was definitely sad. It almost felt like my exchange started all over again. 

Ten days was enough to get a good hang of Toronto. Since arriving to our apartment we didn't use the public transportation or taxis at all, the location was so great. I am pretty proud of us for exploring the downtown by foot despite the freezing cold. Even the locals were apologizing for the extreme cold weather like it would have been their fault. 

 Good thing about the cold is that you always have a good excuse to hop in to a warm bar or restaurant for a break. We fixed our own breakfast each morning (exempt for the one you can see in the pic) and mostly ate out at daytime. The prices in restaurants seem cheap first but when you add taxes and tip to the price you see in the menu it is just as expensive as in Finland.

 The waterfront of Toronto is beautiful and must be a good hang out spot in the summer time. We tried to take a ferry to Toronto Islands to see the sunset one night but even the ferries were closed because of the temperature drop.

 We saw a lot but best part of break was just to hang out with these four. I don't know if I'm getting old or what but I have been really missing my family a lot more compared to the time when I spend a whole year in Mississippi years back.

 It was amazing to wake up and go to sleep seeing this view from our apartment. Something I definitely could get used to. Last week was great but now it's time to see what the last half of the semester still has to offer in Guelph! Today I got back the results from my midterms and at least I passed every single one of them.

See how could I have possibly survived without my mom trying to lay down at the class floor on top of the CN tower?

Rakastan teitä, kohta nähdään taas!

Hockey Nation

We are in Canada, we are in Toronto, there is no way we would miss the chance to go and see an NHL game. 

  Still smiling a little even though the Leafs lost… again….

Niagara Falls

We took a day trip from Toronto to see the Niagara falls and the surroundings.

We arrived there already early in the morning. At summer time the place must be packed with tourists but this time of the year with this freezing weather it was very quiet, and did I already say freezing?

Last year this part of the falls was totally frozen because of recordly cold weather and it is getting close to that this year too.

Also part of the big horseshoe fall is frozen and because of the mist it was hard to see even the parts that are still running. In a way it was beautiful and unique to see this place at winter but I would like to come back at spring time too to fully see them.

      After seeing the falls we headed to Niagara on the lake for lunch. Mom is happy after her stone oven baked pizza and a beer.

Before heading back to Toronto we visited a big vineyard. Canada is big ice wine producer and we got to taste four different kinds for free.

                                                This fellow only has grape juice in his class.

When making ice wine the grapes are left to freeze until late january before they are picked up. The taste is very sweet, a great dessert wine.

On Top of Toronto

Under Water

 This post is written by my little bro:
HELLOu? We have a very exiting day in Toronto.

 We went to Ripley's Aquarium. We saw lots of jellybeans ups! jellyfish. There was also a crab!

                  I ate chicken wings with apple BBQ sauce. But i actually hate chicken! Ums ums

                                                          This fish was happy fish:)))))

                                                   Hey it's me in back!……. and jellyfish

                                       Shark had a little stomachache but it is right now!

Midterm Stress Relieving

Midterms are here and everyone is stressed about them. What could be a better way to relieve some of that stress than throwing a huge snowball fight? This is already a second fight this semester. I was so sad I couldn't make the first one because of an assignment due the same day but this time I made sure I was there to witness this!

 Besides that it's a lot fun to have a snowball fight it's also about school pride. Some other universities in Toronto and other surrounding cities had already had their snowball fights and ours of course had to be bigger and better than theirs. In Facebook there was almost 2 thousand people attending to the event but it was hard to say how many of them really showed up.

 It's -16 degrees today so the snow was not the best kind for making snowballs. Somehow people just managed to make the balls though and at least it didn't hurt anyone because it was so soft.

               The local news were also there and tried to record in the middle of the battlefield.

I love that people here are active and organizing things like this. That's really something we could learn to do more in Finland. This event was not organized by any particular club or team, someone just made and event on Facebook and everyone joined!