Back from Canada. Tired. I don't have the stamina for a 2 weeks trip. My trips should be no longer than a week.

Highlights:

1. Free Montreal symphony concert ticket just from being in line for tix, and free hershey's dark choc too =)
2. Contemporary stuff in the Musee de Beaux Arts in Montreal, I want them in my home.
3. Concordia orientation, free concert, free beer on the street.. people were quite high.
4. Schwartz smoked meat sandwich
5. Hiked a bit of Mont Tremblant
6. kayaked in a peaceful lake and was caught in the rain
7. campfire with smores
8. Weirdo pervertic old Australian man
9. All the British dudes and Pauline, the German design student
10. Parc Omega and elks
11. Beavertail
12. staying in a hostel that used to be a Jail
13. Major Hill Park at night with drum circle
14. Being in English-speaking Ottawa with French-speaking Quebec just across the river
15. Parliament tour in Ottawa, beautiful library
16. Byward Market with beautiful fruits. Bought $3 worth of strawberries, blackberries, raspberries and blueberries. Happy
17. Fort Coulonge, beautiful lake, chill, BBQ, great dessert, ice cream with berries, the place was so in the middle of nowhere that the rooms have no locks.
18. Whitewater rafting!! down the Ottawa river. 1 whole day. Fun fun fun. Fell out of the raft while surfing the big butterfly, apparently everyone who sits at that position in the raft gets thrown out. Whitewater rafting looks more exciting than it feels. But it's fun.
19. Didn't jump off the cliff. Didn't drink beer.
20. Colourful maple trees in Algonquin Provincial Park. Imagine a forest filled with maple trees. Well, that's Eastern Canada.
21. Chilling and bumming around in the beautiful Madawaska
22. Watched this play called Prince Hamlet near Little India in Toronto
23. Met Jacinth at Stratford and watched the Ideal Husband, which is very very funnny
24. Travelling around with JacJac
25. Pretty candy apples at Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory
26. Niagara Falls was impressive. That's a lot of water flowing down. and it's gorgeous at night with the lights.
27. Toronto Chinatown. OMG the fruits are so beautiful, and cheap. Had dim sum =)
28. Susan calling me 1h after I landed in San Diego asking me if I have decided to quit the lab cos I haven't appeared for so long.. haha