For a change of pace Kathy and I did actually stuff this weekend. We were going to go to St. Jacobs Saturday which turned out to be the last day the buses were going there to check out the village. The buses never did come though, one showed up dropped off its passengers and than went out of service. When we first showed up at the bus stop we were hungry and had headaches so we stopped off to get most delicious Mozza Burgers. I had hoped that food would squash the headache and it did for my self but as I found out later in the day it did not do it entirely for my sweet. After shoving the food in our bellies quickly we went out to get on the bus again and again it did not show up so with pockets full of new Kleenex we left headed for Oktoberfest. We actually made a pit stop first at a store that sold Apple equipment because we had not before and I was curious as to what the new wares looked like. The powermacs worked very quickly and launched programs much much much faster than I have ever experienced, even compared to my new windows box. I knew that the iPod Nano was small and as thin as a pencil but I was blown away by how small it was. It is so much smaller than an iPod Mini. I want one now but I shouldn’t get one. I must remain on the path of the cheap. Blessed is this path. Oh I also want a 30″ LCD screen.
Anyways we than went down to Oktoberfest. A couple of people asked for some change for “drunkfest” which I thought were a bit funny. There always seems to be more people closer to Kitchener asking for money during Oktoberfest, otherwise they seem to be just closer to the LCBO during the rest of the year or at least the one by Bridgeport or where ever that road is. Walked around a bit, nothing too much was happening, it was still daytime though, we just ordered our sausages and left. We did catch the Kitchener Farmer’s Market just as they were closing down, oh so much produce and various strange cheeses. I want to go back another time when they are still open to see everything that is available. Not sure if we would get anything since I am not a veggie eater much but still it is nice to see. We also stopped by the Nexus Lexus which is a big nerd store. There moved upstairs and is still a nerd store with two Warhammer tables now, it has been quite a while since I have been there last. Chris actually showed me the store, I believe the comic shop next to it is gone although I didn’t actually remember to look but I am pretty sure I would have noticed it. The used game store across the street is gone too.
Oh yes while downtown we came across a fish store. Actually we would have missed it except the store use to be facing the street but I guess they had to relocate to the back of the building and still hade a paper in the window saying they moved to the rear of the building. They had a lot of nice saltwater fish and rocks. I hope they do good but from their location I am not too sure how they will do, it just isn’t visible and unless you know about it there you would not see it driving by and you’d be lucky to notice it walking by, really lucky. They also had some cute little albino frogs that I guess Kathy will pick up this weekend maybe. After this brief pit stop we headed our journey back to home to sit down and deposit the tea we had picked up at Bargains Bargains Bargains. I do not recall the flavour of it but I do remember Kathy saying it was one she wanted to try. While at home we found that we should get going in about 40 minutes in order to catch Corpse Bride at Galaxy so after watching an episode of Futurama off we went again. This time I went sans coat because I forgot it and was cold. The movie was good, I like Nightmare Before Christmas better but this one had some great scenes such as the dancing skeletons and some creative lighting. We used up the last 5 dollar movie coupon I had in the pack of them we have been using so far. I got those certificates from a Christmas about 3 years ago. At the time the cinema in Cambridge Centre wasn’t a Galaxy cinema and the closest Odeon cinema was in Kitchener and was ass. Afterwards I wasn’t too sure if Galaxy did accept those coupons.
Anyways off to the bus stop we went again, this time we encountered a chocolate wench she told us stories of people wanting chocolate to give for Thanksgiving. Back to home we went and I do not recall doing anything else. Oh wait we went to Lens Mill Store too. Actually we went from the Bus Station to the correct street but because I didn’t pay attention to silly things like N and S of streets and if we passed the building or not we stopped and started walking backwards because I thought we passed it. We made a quick detour through the graveyard. There were a lot of newer looking stones and a few older ones. There were even a couple of older stones that still had fresh flowers in front of them and a few very large family plots. We left the Cemetery and continued to head back through the street that we had just come up with the bus only to discover that we didn’t pass Lens Mill Store. After I did another check for the address in the phone book and after calling them on my cell to make sure I discovered we didn’t journey far enough so we walked up King Street until a bus picked us up so we could get dropped off as close as it could take us to our location and we than walked the rest of the way.
A few nice gardens were encountered but I guess overall they weren’t too nice since I don’t remember any of them. We did find the store and it looked tiny, I thought the selection was going to be poor but when we walked in this building had somehow hid how long it actually was. They even had those plastic tray inserts full of cookies packaged together but with no final package outside indicating stuff such as brand or ingredients and such. I wanted a cookie.
This was our Saturday adventure, some of which is out of order, yay.
