Bienvenue à Montréal! We had a pretty early start yesterday as we woke up at 5 o'clock at Donna's house. She gave us a ride to the train station and we said our goodbyes. I'm planning to write a text here where we tell more about them and our Hospitality Club experiences so far, but on this point we only have time to say that we had excellent time with the Brown's and we really felt like being a part of their family. We arrived to Toronto's Union Station at 7...

The last couple of days have just gone by really fast. We haven't really done anything special, yesterday we just watched some baseball and went to the movies (where I cought an awful cold) and today we went to the mall in Pickering to get Jukka a new cellphone. Now it's time to go to bed as we have to get up at 5 am tomorrow morning. We have to be atthe bus terminal at 8.30 to catch the bus to Montreal. For the next couple of weeks we won't be able to update t...

Today was really just about chilling in the sun and watching baseball. We were at Donna's son's baseball tournament and it was really fun! The sun was shining and it was closer to 30 degrees in the shade. D's games went really well as they won all of them. After watching baseball all day we went to the movies with the family. We saw Step Brothers which was really funny. Now were just so tired that we have to go to sleep, we'll wake up early tomorrow too to w...

Today has been a fairly boring day or at least I think so (Jukka had fun). We just took the subway to Yonge-Bloor station and walked around for ages. Our plan was to find some kind of Caribbean restaurant there, because the area was supposed to be "mainly West Indian" according to the Lonely Planet guidebook. Well, that plan didn't work out that well as the only two Caribbean restaurants we found were bankrupt. After giving up in that area we headed bac...

Yesterday could have been called a day of surprises. We really had only one plan in the morning, to take the train to Downtown Toronto, but eventually the day turned to be full of something new. The walk from Donna's house to the train station is quite long, and as this city is not that pedestrian-friendly as we have got used to in Finland, it felt even longer. In Toronto it is quite easy to walk around, but here in Pickering there is no tunnels and sidewalks go...