Thursday, July 01, 2004

Thunder Bay - Day One

We arrived in Thunder Bay at around 7 PM and took a taxi to Tim's place. He's got a pretty nice dig for a student. Luckily for him, he's got it all paid for by his program! After settling in a bit, we headed out to Boston Pizza. It wasn't a very pleasant experience 'cause we had to wait over 45mins for our food. Pretty ridiculous. Making matters worse, Nicole was starving and almost passed out on the table--kinda scary and funny at the same time. :) To say the least, we won't be going back there any time soon. After dinner, we headed down to the Marina to check out the Canada Day fireworks. One thing that I quickly noticed was that I was visibly a minority in Thunder Bay. It's something that I'm definitely not used to considering Toronto is one of the most diverse cities in the world. Thunder Bay is made up of mostly Caucasian, Aboriginal, and, surprisingly, Scandinavian/Finnish people. I think Nicole and I pretty much doubled the Asian population in that area. :) Anyway, the fireworks were pretty standard fare, but enjoyable nonetheless.

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