This week in Toronto

Hey Guys, we just kicking it this week. I am going to try and update this thing once a week, we will see how it goes.

This week we did a few more sightseeing things, we went to the hockey hall of fame! Although it wasn't particularly interesting because we know nothing about hockey or the NHL. This is the one person I recognised. Wayne gretsky, known to the locals as "the great one"
I had my own attemp at a slapshot at goal, I shall now be know as the "the not great one"
Other highlights were the hockey world cup hall of fame.

And the Stanley cup, this is the trophey you get when you win, it has the name of each member of each team engraved on it, so its massive.
Last weekend there were a couple of festivals on. On our main street there was "a taste of little Italy" they closed of College street for a couple of blocks and had it filled with food and music and stalls and stuff, was kinda cool, but not much there apart from a ton of Italians and portugeese.


These guys were cool though.
This was heartbreaking to see though, especially in the month that I chose to give up meat! I would have given anything for a bite of this bad boy. Sarah was unimpressed!
The other festival that happened over the weekend was North by Northeast, and it was awesome. You paid $29 for a pass for the weekend and it allowed entry to any gig or movie that was part of the festival. There were over 500 bands playing in every venue in town.
On Thursday I saw Strike anywhere and the flatliners, plus a few good local acts.

On friday it was the St. Catherines and the Real Mackenzies, both were great nights.
The real mackenzies are like a Canadian/Scottish punk combo, the Sainte catherines were great though! They rocked it and then came back and played a set of County and bluegrass and stuff using the name yesterdays ring. The bands were all great but the highlight was seeing Nubs. Any NoFX fan thats reading take note. The song She's nubs on the war on Errorism CD is actually about this chick from Toronto. She has no arms and hardly any legs and a huge Mohawk. I would suggest everyone listen to the song cause its really funny. Anyways, she goes to all the shows and we saw her both nights.
This was actually after the Sainte Catherines played.
At first I wasn't sure about it, and I didn't want to ask just in case, but its really her, I spoke to some locals and they all know her. It was classic.