(from my handy red notebook. i love you. rip.)

• Trisha's hash chocolates
• Lemonade iced tea for 99c
• Quiet & serene in Nitobe Memorial Gardens
• Smoke's Poutinerie vegetarian poutine
• Atmosphere from the Blue Jays game
• Views from the CN Tower Edgewalk
• Pins and needles after the bungee jump in Whistler
• Finding the Marc Jacobs Boston terrier sneakers in stock
• Accidentally walking into Adrenaline Vancity
• Jackson developing my train ink idea
• Playing with Kieron in the hockey rink whilst Stefan played
• Finally meeting some Canadian family
• Brighton screaming 'apple juice'!! (all the time)
• Watching MB play hockey
• Having my first Tim Hortons
• Marveling at how human & animal anatomies are so alike at Animals Inside Out
• Seeing Lake Ontario every morning en route to Toronto
• Walking through Rouge Hill to get to the zoo
• Kind girl in Nordstrom giving me alternative clothes stores in the city
• Finally finding Hot Sox!!
• Cinnamon swirl disks from the market
• Full 24hrs of trees riding through Ontario
• Seeing a wild grizzly bear just past Jasper
• Kamloop in the dark
• Bus journey Vancouver -> Whistler
• Niagara journeys listening to everything
• Applebees avocado veggie burger (also my first time eating alone at a restaurant)
• Burts Bees in every drug store
• Amy has all David Sedaris' books
• Watching The Killing when I'm ill
• Grapefruit Burts Bees towelettes
• Avocado with all my meals
• Empty ghost town in Niagara
• The bridge with all the kittens living underneath
• Deserted arcade at the base of Skylon
• All of Gary's gifts on the train (tea and the likes)
• Finding a good facial moisturizer - Celestial from Lush
• Pumpkin frappucino
• Sunsets on the train
• Toronto Island
• Holly in Lush who later joined me for pasta
• Kristen (?) from Burbank who also joined the zip-lining tour
• Our horse guide Larry
• Oatmeal wanting to eat everything
• The views in the valley
• Some of the trees were yellow - that's how you knew whether they had been interfered with by humans
• Larry suggesting summer work for me as a horse guide
• Seeing mountains Whistler -> Vancouver
• Cycling the seawall past dark
• Soy burger @ Vera's
• Pumpkins at Butchart Gardens
• Hearing an elderly ladies stories on the ferry
• Meeting Jo
• All the people in our dorm room - Ocean Backpackers
• Mushroom & cheese pierogi's with poutine @ SulTi Pierogi Bar
• Massive nachos shared w/ Jo
• I got ID'd and she had no problem (18???)
• All the thrift shops in Victoria
• First night in Victoria - ghost walk!
• Seeing my first blue whale (plus 6 more)
• 2 pairs of Vans for $80/£40
• Kyle at the Vans store
• Feeling like a real backpacker
• 7/11 drinks - cheap
• The Market on Yates - coolest supermarket
• Eating donuts in the corn maze
• Shitting ourselves in both the small horror house and Carnevil
• Crazy displays @ Miniature Museum
• Seeing German dorm friend at the bus station
• Jo teaching me the Aussie ways
  • Sucker - Lolly
  • Lollies - Pick/mix
  • Maccers - McDonalds
  • Gherkin - Pickle
  • Fairyfloss - Candyfloss
  • Looney - 1 Dollar
• Barista at Starbucks saying she could listen to my accent forever
• Holding a tarantula & insects at Bug Zoo
• Biggest ant colony in North America & they are so intelligent
• Booking a second night for the Spheres the moment I saw Eve
• Lulled to sleep with Bon Iver surround sound
• Walking with Rosie and the pup around the river
• All the fish carcasses on the riverbed and sides from the bears
• Deserted train tracks (mildly freaking every time I took a step over the bridge)
• Fog nestling on the tracks
• Walking to the trickle of rain and forest views
• Late morning reading David Sedaris/Naked
• Rosey checking I was back safe & that I had enough food
• Eve had no lock!