@kdfrawg Decent food, but the wine list was an atrocity — and unfortunately so was the cocktail list.

After a 2-hour prayer ceremony, I need a change of scene. So this is probably the smallest restaurant kitchen in Toronto (Chabrol): 1 chef and a home-sized stove.
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Looks very decent. Do you get to partake in any of it?

The free booze is good. Dom Pérignon champagne and Talisker 10 whisky. The glassware is abysmal though.

How do accidents even happen on North American highways? 5 lanes and all you need to do is drive in a straight line. Idiots would be dropping like flies in…any city in Asia ?

Ah, more sashimi!

Turns out I'll be sharing with 2 of my best friends (known them since I was 4). It's good in that I'll spend time with them, and don't have to share with some distant relative of someone's who I couldn't care less about, but bad because I know exactly what they're like. Or more specifically, what one of them's like.

Very nice of my friend's family (this is his sister's wedding, that's why I made this trip at all) to arrange for a driver to pick me up.

Wonder what the sleeping arrangements will be. Last I heard, a few of us were going to share a suite.

In Toronto and alive. God it's nice to see a clean airport after JFK.

"Document recheck".

So the monkeys at security are just there for show!

This recheck involves someone looking at my passport and trying to find my name on a list printed on continuous feed paper, then crossing it out and signing next to it.

It's like they don't know what a computer is.

Right where the sun doesn't shine would be nice, and I don't mean Vancouver.

Amazing that citizens have to fill in a landing card too.