A Toronto Weekend

Last weekend, Aleksy and I enjoyed our winnings from a draw at Aleksy's work. He put his name in and won: 2 tickets to the leafs game on Sat the 23rd (with awesome seats!), a hotel night at the Intercontinental hotel, and $100 spending cash!!

We arrived in T.O. at 2:30pm after being redirected off the highways twice because of accidents. It took us about 45 min to leave London that Saturday. Throw a little snow and ice on the roads, and no one moves.

We went immediately to our hotel to check in, and when we went up to our room, this is how close our hotel is to the CN tower: this is our window!!

After parking at the hotel and dumping our things in our room, we headed to the stores and of course, China town for some Dim Sum. It was a freezing freezing cold day, and although I'm usually all about trying different places, we wound up going to a restaurant that we have already been to. Too cold to search. But as always, amazing, variety of dim sum for only $25.

That sticky rice wrapped in lotus leaves that's on our plates is seriously the best, along with those custard buns.

I don't know how to leave ChinaTown without going into the little pastry stores. I don't know why pastries are so darn appealing to me. They look and sound amazing (and are about $.80 each), but these ones weren't particularly delic. That coconut cream one was the only yummy one.

We did some shopping, but didn't purchase anything. I think going into the stores was more of a break from the cold than anything (because we're black Friday shopping TONIGHT and didn't need to buy anything at full price in DT T.O.). This was the closest we came to a purchase... garage decoration?

After finishing our dim sum, purchasing some pastries and new hats from the hat store in China Town, we headed back to out hotel and had a couple drinks before heading to the ACC for the game!

And our first Leafs game was friggin amazing!! It even went into overtime with a shoot out and the Leafs won!

When we left the game, we went back to our hotel and I began to read comments to a Facebook post of Aleksy's that some friends were staying in a hotel a block or two over. So we met up at a bar for one, or two, or three pitchers! We ditched the bar that had cover and went to this one.. I think loose moose?  Such a good (and amazingly spontaneous) night!