Toronto Life

I've had a great 2 weeks being back at home in between trips. It was really nice to relax with my parents and see so many friends!

First on my list of activities was Rockfest in Quebec!! I was so excited to go on a road trip with my bestie and her boyfriend. The event was kinda disorganized, so we ended up with a muddy campsite far away from our car, and had to wait in massive line ups to get into the event, but I guess that's pretty par for the course when you have 100 000 rockers invading a town of 900 people in the middle of nowhere! We had a great time watching the bands, eating poutine, sneaking into secret entrances, swimming in mud puddles (well, I just watched that part lol) and trying to speak French while drunk!

I got to hang out a lot with mom. One day we went down to the waterfront to see the tall ships. It was a beautiful sunny day down by the lake. We also both love yoga so we got to do that quite a few times. I love summer in Toronto!

I met up with a few friends from school one night and we ended up going on a Toronto safari. Turns out they have a nature trail in their backyard that leads to a forest and a marsh. We saw one of the most picture perfect and typical Canadian scenes you can imagine: a family of Canada Geese swimming by in a straight line, with one parent goose at each end and 12 (yes 12!) baby geese in the middle. Then, two beavers popped up and swam by in the opposite direction. It was awesome! We also saw tons of little tiny baby rabbits, so small they could fit in the palm of your hand, hopping along the path. Then we saw a baby raccoon and he was so cute!

I saw so many other friends, and was lucky to be here to celebrate one of my best friend's birthday's this weekend! I had a shopping date with another friend to my favourite store, Mountain Equipment Co-op, to buy her some new gear. I love gear!! I was so tempted to buy everything, as I always am there, but I have almost everything I need now so had to hold back. But, it was lots of fun helping my friend pick out all her new gear!!

Well, I'm off on my next adventure today. I'm heading to the Galapagos Islands to work on an invasive species project for a month!! See you later Toronto!