im such a tourist

one of my best friends meagan lives in toronto. i like toronto. i think i was meant to live in a big city, im fascinated by them. the sky scrapers, the varieties of unique shops and the people, i love it all. yesterday i went to visit meagan and i practically dragged her around the city for six or seven hours. i totally had a list of things i wanted to do - like i was some sort of tourist. really, i've been to toronto hundreds of times. my goal is to learn the city so i dont feel like such a tourist lol. its an easy city to get around with the subways, street cars and buses. there is this convenient little day pass you can get for $10 per person and you can ride the subway/street cars/buses as often as you like in that day (on weekends is $10 for two adults!). 
anyways we met at union around 11 am and started the day with starbucks - grande bolds please. we just walked around the eatons centre, then we went to the st lawrence market. if you have never been i suggest you go. there is definitely stuff to see there.

how amazing is this! vanilla buttercream cupcake coffee beans!

haha i had to take a picture of these!

so we got lunch at the st lawrence market. then we walked along bloor and college, went in some shops, took some pictures. we got some custard tartes from a bakery :). delicious! it started raining, which kind of sucked, but oh well. i was looking for a used bookstore on college, but we ended up getting on the wrong subway train which actually worked out cause i knew were another bookshop was! it was called Eliots bookshop. the man there is fantastic.. i would ask about a book and he would say the author or title in a matter of seconds! perfect. i bought 4 books.. for under $30. 

next stop - bubble teas from an asian food place on younge.

around 5 or 6.. we headed back to meagans house, got some groceries. our challenge was a cupcake taste test. we made red velvet cupcakes from scratch and duncan hines chocolate fudge cupcakes with icing we bought.. blahhh.. 

oh.. our red velvet cupcakes were better.

ohh then we went to bring cupcakes to some friends while they studied and we watched criminal minds. it was a good day. 

the day also consisted of ice wine, which was pretty good, and hanging out with a pretty cool looking cat with folded ears (his name - duffy)

however, note to self - dont wear pumas. my legs were in painnnnnnnnn..