Me with Grand River :D

A wonderful view of Grand River. This is the river after which lots of things in Waterloo are named. Grand River Hospital is the main public hospital here. Grand River Transit is the public bus system. I can't think of anything else right now but I'm sure there must be more! Beautiful no?

I think this guy's the owner of the pub. See how he's dressed in green! Suspenders, tie and a hat to top it off (pun! :D) - the spirit of St. Patrick's Day. Most people were dressed in green with funny little green hats. They represented green leprechauns. Coincidentally, this was the day Ireland thrashed Pakistan! Congrats to Ireland!

The place was completely packed so YJ and I had to stand at the bar and not buy any drinks!

Our landlord took us to a pub at Lancaster (Kitchener) which he frequents. He goes there every Saturday to listen to jazz music and just chill with some of his agemates. Since it was St. Patrick's Day, I was very keen to check out the culture. So I actually went to a pub! Hehehe.

There was a bathtub sitting right in the middle of Conestoga Mall! C. Mall is the biggest mall in Waterloo, and is actually pretty small but YJ and I spent about 6 hours there.

CEDAR PRIDE! :D :D :D Note how all the roads are so wet! It was relatively warm that day - about 4 deg C - so the snow was melting and precipitation came as rain instead of snow.

Inside Kitchener Market. Fresh market which is only open on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Wide variety of stuff!

A cute lil dressed up dog! These lil cuties and their clothes are very common here! Taken on the way to the market on an early Saturday morning.

Followed by some delicious dessert at William's Coffee Pub. They sell the most divine chocolate desserts.

Chinese New Year hotpot dinner with Namratha and some of her classmates at a Chinese Restaurant. We had this continuously boiling hotpot with two different soups placed in front of us, and we put in the noodles and various vegetables and fake meat (but we only put in one or two coz it looked suspiciously non-veg) and cooked everything together.

Hailin and I devouring the carrot cake which Audrey and Jasleen baked for dessert. YUM!

Audrey, Jasleen, Hailin, Yanjun and me with our food. Kinda like a pot luck dinner! Good fun :)

Another cooking success! :D Baked potatoes with garlic and cheese :D :D

Nammu and I went for lunch at Subway after an arduous lab and before lecture!

Julaina came home to eat something made by YJ. CNY stuff - Tang yang?

There were self-check-out counters. Donald said it was fun and encouraged me to try it too! So I did and it was sooo fun! Though I had to keep getting the cashier's help whenever the machine gave some weird error. But the whole barcode-scanning thing - very cool. Not as simple as you might think!

We went to the Real Canadian Superstore for grocery shopping. This place has EVERYTHING! It's really a superstore! (That's Yanjun saying "superstore!" like Superman!)

Donald taught us ice hockey! It's not as easy as it seems! I kept onnnn hitting the ground instead of the puck. But maybe that's just me and my sad sport skills :P

YJ and I at the toboggan slopes.