2014 marked the first time I spent traveling across Canada. In all the years I’ve lived here, I’ve only done a handful of trips to Vancouver and Montreal, usually en route to other places. Never had I taken an actual vacation solely in Canada, so it was my first time touring the country. We started the first leg of our trip in Calgary. On Friday morning we boarded a flight from Toronto to Calgary and arrived shortly after 10:00 am….
Our NYC weekend was winding down by the time we got up Monday morning. By quarter to 9 we were already out the door ready to grab breakfast down the street. I think all of us were hungry by the time we arrived at Timmy’s/Soupman. Even though we had looked up the opening times online, we realized soon after that Soupman only starts serving soup at 9:30 am. Hence the three of us ended up sitting with our cups of…
Day 2 was another busy day for us. I pretty much tried to cram in seeing as many people as I could in one day. I really need to apologize to everyone for such a tight schedule. (>_
So after all the planning and back and forth email exchanges, our NYC weekend was finally upon us! I think we had picked a perfect weekend to go to the States, since there were no major snow storms that weekend affecting our travel plans. Our only bit of sad news prior to going was Tomomi cancelling her trip after she caught the flu. So our ladies weekend was down to three people. Regardless, we still had an awesome time touring…
Day 4 in Philly. We began the morning by going on a hunt to buy our transit day passes. This is part two to my horror story of taking the SEPTA. Basically, Philly uses a zone system with different day passes based on how far you travel. Since we needed to get to the airport in the afternoon, we had to purchase their Independence Pass, which should have been sold at all their subway stations. After exiting our hotel, we…