The happiest place in the world!

Well, I have just been to the happiest place in the world! It's called the 'Build-a-Bear Workshop' and is a place filled with people making happy pleased noises everywhere.

It's a place where absolutely no-one is sad and even the most composed and grown up of us are reduced to smiling, happy goof balls :-) I love it!

It's at this point that I think I might just have the best boyfriend in the world as it was his idea we go there - awwwh :-) Way to score brownie points eh! Especially since it's HIS birthday today - what a guy :-)

He is at this moment playing some kind of new computer game named "Portal" though - so maybe that was his plan all along :-)

Anyway, back to the other bear.

What you do is pick a fluffy bear er... 'shell' I guess you'd call it, from the many varieties on the shelf; fluffy, silky, curly, brown, white, moose, giraffe, turtle etc...

And then take it to be filled with fluff from a special machine, but not before you've chosen what sound you'd like (if any) and picked a wee heart to place inside it.

We couldn't really find any sounds which were cool enough to suit our 'Charlie,' as we'd named him by then, and which didn't threaten to drive us nuts everytime we heard them :-)

So after waiting in line with a bunch of people ranging in age from 4-9 years, we got our finished bear and proceeded through the grooming, dressing and naming areas of the bear workshop.

Though we tried many clothes; hats (which have room for ears), shoes...even a pirates outfit, we couldn't find any that looked great, so only ended up getting a shirt which reads 'I love Canada,' meaning that poor Charlie had to leave the store without pants!

This is ok though as I think his wee stubby tail looks far cuter bare :)

Perhaps when it gets a bit cooler we'll get him a Maple leafs hockey jersey and wee woolly scarf :)

Speaking of that, Craig has got us tickets to a Raptors basketball game through this work, which is cool.

And the town we're living in now is hosting the 2008 Hockey League finals, so we'll hopefully see that sometime too.

As for the weather - it's been unspeakably warm since we arrived with average temperatures in the mid 20's and high's in the 30's, but has finally seen some rain in the past week.

One thing I love about the weather here is that they tell you the temperature in degrees, but also what it FEELS like... eg 15 deg, but feels like 12 etc.

I'd better cut this short now as we're going out for drinks with our new roomates soon.

After weeks of looking we've finally found an apartment which is right downtown and suits us to a T. Craig can walk to walk and I can walk to the park, library, art gallery and coffee shop until the happy instance when I also find gainful employment :)

I'll tell you more about our new place and roomates in another blog soon, but must get going now.

One funny coincidence though is that, our new roommate, Chris, also shares a birthday with Craig today...

Oh make that three people actually...

The birth certificate for our new bear Charlie says it's his birthday today too :)