A Home Away From Home

We've been in toronto for three weeks now. and so far so good, we are loving every minute of it! but i do get homesick every now and then, still missing everyone so much :) but thanks to our home away from home(at my aunt's), we are very much comfortable and enjoying the canadian summer!!! very hot hot hot at the moment, with temperatures ranging from 25-30 degrees everyday, no wind and very little rain. i'm becoming even more tan and chris is turning into a lovely pink person heheh nah, he's got a good tan too :)

We are currently staying in woodbridge, Ontario, 32 km away from downtown toronto, which according to my brother, a suburbia that resembles pleasantville. The houses are very similar to each other, made out of brick, with family cars parked just outside the house, we don't quite understand why canadians don't use their garage, its something we've pondered over and over again... we've also visited my cousin's school which is nearby, check out the indoor swimming pool, nice eh? this school is fairly new, but it made me wish to be in school again, they have a pool table in their common room, and subsequent rooms allocated for "other" school activities hahaha. Also, instead of seeing the rugby/cricket/softball fields, they have the baseball/hockey/soccer fields. Apparently the skating rink that we now see will be transformed into an ice skating park which chris and i are really looking forward to! Some pictures of the Dominguez' neighbor and their house below, their spa makes life divine:) a bundle of THANK YOU Tita(aunt) Haydee and Tito(unlce) Joy!!!










our trips to downtown have proven really exciting. we love the challenge of finding our way, which is pretty much knowing where north is(they're very big on the whole N-E-S-W), and with a city map of course. From woodbridge, we have to catch a bus to the Wilson subway station, this trip takes up most of the time, a one-hour ride. I just wish they didn't have to stop on every block! and then on to the underground trains which is very reliable since it runs every 5-10 minutes. We haven't really been exploring much of the city, we figured when we move closer to town we'll have the chance to see it "up close and personal", although we have seen nice parks, University of Toronto, the Eaton centre(huge mall) and the underground walkways. These walkways are not so popular at the moment since it's summer, but i'm imagining it to be packed during winter when temperatures are below zero(eeek!). The paths are really done up well, it's almost walking in a hotel lobby.