豪雨

Happened a little while ago, on the night 詹占 and I planned to go to Summerlicious. We had a reservation in Canoe.

First it took me forever to get to our meeting place cos numerous traffic lights were out in Markham because of the thunderstorm. And then the highway was all jammed up.

I saw this one 坑渠 which is supposed to drain water, but instead, water was shooting out from it like a mini-fountain. I have to say, quite amusing.

Finally got there but we still had to take the subway to downtown. Subway was stopped a bunch of times in between stations due to signal problem. And as we got close to Bloor, the announcer said that there’ll be no more subway south of Bloor, we had to get off and that there was no shuttle buses either.

It was still raining outside, altho not too heavily by that point. So we decided to walk to the restaurant, which is located on Wellington. Quite a walk. Lots of ppl on the street walking tho so it was actually quite 熱鬧. 有少少襯墟既感覺.

And the funny thing was that Canoe had power outage as well so they decided to close for the night!! So we ended up having to hunt for another restaurant in the rain. Luckily, there’s no lack of choices along Yonge St. And there’s no point trying to rush back up since there’s no subway anyway.

Ended up in the Irish Embassy. Pretty good food. But it’s not the long expected Canoe. We still had a good time tho.

Unfortunately, the subway was still having trouble after dinner. We needed to be back midtown to pick up 小J by 10pm. There was shuttle buses running up and down Yonge already but the line-up is still very long. So ended up walking back to Bloor again and then took the subway from there.The walk back somehow reminded me of Exodus, when Moses and the Israelites exited Egypt. A funny feeling. The walk also killed my office shoes, which weren’t in particularly good shape to start with and causes quite a bit of pain on my feet. I ended up throwing the shoes away afterwards cos the walk greatly sped up their deterioration to the point that they are no good for any feet anymore.

We did make it before 10pm but timing was TIGHT! Quite stressful.

Altho we were unable to eat in our long-expected restaurant and that I wasn’t a big fan of having my feet soaked for a few hours, it was still a fun night out and definitely a more special experience than it would be otherwise.