The sales on Boxing Day were crazy enough, yet the crowds even more so. In fact, shops opened as early as 7am, and we'd already seen people carrying Forever 21 and H&M shopping bags when we left our hostel at 9am (i.e. they must'd been the really super early birds!) Omg.. it was snowing flurries too, but despite weather conditions people still ran from building to building, shop to shop. Check out the crowds both on the open streets and inside the Toronto Eaton Centre - some shops even had people waiting in line outside, and security guards had to regulate the inflow and outflow of customers..! Tskk.. scary sight.
I'd suggested a Christmas gift exchange amongst the 6 of us by way of drawing lots. I was supposed to get something for Pompidou, and'd set my eyes on a very classic Levi's tee. I even requested for Shuwen to vet it in the end before confirming my purchase, so it was good! Haha.. Huilin got me an *erhermz* below-stipulated-budget top too, haha. But it was nice la, though we had some fun niao-ing her about it heh. :) Unfortunately though I didn't manage to get anything else for myself! ROAR. Not that the sales weren't great enough, but I really didn't find what I liked to be sufficiently value-for-money, and the long lines just turned me off at times haha. On top of that, the items on sale were mostly Fall and Winter clothing too, so they didn't appeal that much to me.. yep.
After shopping we attempted to do some sightseeing, though nothing much was achieved eventually. Even the Toronto CN Tower was kinda disappointing despite the hoo-ha about it being the world's tallest building as well as one of the 7 Wonders of the Modern World. We even had to pay CAD 20 to go up the tower! Bleah. :(
The view from almost 553.34 metres way up above
At the souvenir shop, where we took a pic of the souvenir pic we took (which cost a whole CAD 20!) Haha.
It was Iryna's last night with us before returning to Europe, so we spent some time chillin' at a bar and went to Yuk Yuk's, a stand-up comedy club with rather crude yet entertaining comedians
Pretending to be King Kong or some gigantic monster on a rampage, haha
Happy Belated Boxing Day everyone! :)