This morning I am so sore from yesterday, haha.

My birthday is on the 11th, and today is the 12th, so I am officially 19 now. Let me tell you about my birthday. Don't care? Too bad!

Mike was supposed to set the alarm yesterday for 9. He did, just, you know, 9PM and that did us no good. We woke up at like 11:30. Got up, mad dash to get ready, and on the bus we went. For 45 minutes. Then on the subway we went. For like 20 minutes. Then on another bus we went, for who knows how long. We arrived at...

The Toronto Science Center! Hooray!

I wore the wrong socks so I have blisters today from walking so much, but it was worth it. Blisters come and go, memories last a lifetime. It was pretty neat. We rode like 5 escalators down to get to the exhibits, but when we did (ignoring the vapid hordes of teenagers and children) it was pretty nice. There was a whole inside rain forest that made the horribly hot inside feel cool in comparison, there were big aquariums and a giant whale skeleton overhead and an exhibit on snakes and ants and cockroaches the size of your palm. There were glow in the dark frogs and water tasting and rocks from Arizona and bat skeletons! And that was just in the first part.

Their planetarium was disappointing (but I'm used to the one in Chicago) and because we got there so late, didn't have time for the imax movie we wanted to see on underwater life. But I had a good time. I rode a bobsled simulator saw comparisons of human skeletons and saw models of children at various states in the womb. I'm still pro-choice even after that, the pro-life campaign doesn't make any sense. There were reaction time machines and a model of an old boat steam engine that you could crank and see all the working parts.

Of course, at the gift shop, I only bought one thing--a freeze dried ice cream sandwich for Mike and I to split, because he's never had freeze dried ice cream, which kicks ass. You should try it the next time you go down to your local science center.

From there we went back on the bus, got off at the subway station and had lunch at this cafe down the street. It was so not busy but the food was so good--I had a spinach, tomato, and feta panini with the two salads it came with--the tuna pasta salad was amazing! The vegetables in a vinaigrette Mike and I split. It was good, but not damn near as good as that tuna.

And then we took the subway back, and took the bus back, and then walked back home from the bus stop where I collapsed and made phone calls to people. Only to have to get back up with my blisters and cook dinner. It was worth it though, I made pumpkin and black bean burritos with mango guacamole and a side of lime cilantro rice. The guacamole was insane. The night before I had made my birthday cake, a three layer chai cake with honey ginger cream, and I lit 19 candles and sang to myself in my head and blew them out. That cake is amazing and I'm so glad I have more of it.

So over all, not that anyone cares or will even read all of this, haha, it was a good day. Next year I'll be in yet another new place! At least I hope so, unless the offer has been revoked. =/