Advice for those skaters moving to Canada

[ancientpeas]

A huge proportion of Canada geese live permanently in the US, leaving acres of goose poop for us to slip on. Wawa!

I'm glad to see you support Wawa! Wawa, Ontario for the win!

 

[chopinskate]

Are we moving to gardening and horticulture now? Medvedeva sure has a lot to learn in Canada!

Just wish she can get some time off to focus on skating.

 

[4everchan]

A huge proportion of Canada geese live permanently in the US, leaving acres of goose poop for us to slip on. Wawa!

if they live permanently in the US, then they are no longer Canada geese... don't blame us Canadians for poop not under our authority.

 

[Haleth]

Dear Jason: Please be ready on June 16 with your welcome wagon of bagged milk and something from Tim Hortons.

Also that’s like 7 hours from now in Russia!

I thought the agreed-upon items were poutine (RIP Evgenia's coronary system tho), butter tarts, Labrador tea, tourtière pie (I know it's early), Nanaimo bars, and icewine?

 

[mrrice]

She really does have to try breakfast from Tim Horton's. The Coffee is IMO, better than Starbucks and so are the breakfast sandwich's. What's the drinking age in Canada? She definitely needs to try Patrick's Ice Wine, even if it's just for a photo.....She should also spend an afternoon at the West Edmonton Mall.....She might run into Kaetlyn and she can ride that big roller coaster.

 

[lyndichee]

She really does have to try breakfast from Tim Horton's. The Coffee is IMO, better than Starbucks and so are the breakfast sandwich's. What's the drinking age in Canada? She definitely needs to try Patrick's Ice Wine, even if it's just for a photo.....She should also spend an afternoon at the West Edmonton Mall.....She might run into Kaetlyn and she can ride that big roller coaster.

I would personally hope that Evgenia never has to resort to Tim Hortons as theydefinitely has some of the worst coffee here. There are a ton of small specialty shops that do it better and Evgenia should try out some of our cosy shops for studying and me time.

Drinking age in Ontario is 19 so she won't be able to try the wine for a little bit.

 

[el henry]

OK, if you can't stop thread drift, time to embrace it....

There's a Wawa, Ontario? That is not *the* Wawa, there is only one Wawa, the greatest convenience store ever, which started in Eastern Penna. They also have great coffee.

Ben Jalovick, a US men's senior skater training in Colorado, shows off his Wawa coffee on a trip back East Gotta have a Wawa

Sadly, there are no Wawa stores that I know of in Canada, so Jason will not be able to greet Zhenya with a Wawa coffee

 

[BillNeal]

OK, if you can't stop thread drift, time to embrace it....

There's a Wawa, Ontario? That is not *the* Wawa, there is only one Wawa, the greatest convenience store ever, which started in Eastern Penna. They also have great coffee.

Ben Jalovick, a US men's senior skater training in Colorado, shows off his Wawa coffee on a trip back East Gotta have a Wawa

Sadly, there are no Wawa stores that I know of in Canada, so Jason will not be able to greet Zhenya with a Wawa coffee

Pssh...a flying goose on a coffee cup...try a 28 feet majestic 3-D statue .

 

[TGee]

Pssh...a flying goose on a coffee cup...try a 28 feet majestic 3-D statue [emoji3].

Uhm, not to get off topic or anything, but given Zhenya's from Moscow, I totally expect her to be ready to embrace Canada's "big thing" obsession.

It seems that no respectable municipality in either Canada or Russia can do without one.

Moscow -- giant Peter the Great..

https://www.tripadvisor.ca/Attracti...The_Great_Monument-Moscow_Central_Russia.html


Toronto - - CN Tower

http://www.cntower.ca/en-ca/home.html


Vegerville AB -- world's 2nd largest pysanka (and mathematical marvel) --

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegreville_egg

And for reassurance that Slavic food really has deep roots here, the world's largest pyrohy (vareniki in Russian) ....

https://www.travelalberta.com/ca/listings/worlds-largest-pyrogy-5628/

 

[Mathman]

OK, if you can't stop thread drift, time to embrace it....

There's a Wawa, Ontario? That is not *the* Wawa, there is only one Wawa, the greatest convenience store ever, which started in Eastern Penna. They also have great coffee.

Small world. According to this blog, the town of Wawa, Ontario, took it's name from the Wawa dairy in Pennsylvania, which grew into the convenience store.

http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.s...a_get_its_name_a_not-so-wild_goose_chase.html

And by the way, here is the famous Wawa (Ontario) goose:

https://www.algomacountry.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/NewWawaGoose-02.jpg

Edit: I see BillNeal beat me to it.

 

[Mathman]

Drinking age in Ontario is 19 so she won't be able to try the wine for a little bit.

But i'm sure Patrick Chan will be the first in line to help her celebrate her 19th birthday. :yes:

https://78.media.tumblr.com/fddd8e402b5448b900143883821afa6d/tumblr_nq10fjl8jI1twifwho1_500.jpg

 

[Mathman]

Are we moving to gardening and horticulture now? Medvedeva sure has a lot to learn in Canada!

Just wish she can get some time off to focus on skating.

I was wishing that the thread would get back to Evgenia's first trip to IKEA to buy furniture for her new apartment, so I could post this. Maybe they will put her in their next ad! (If you pause at 1:17 you can see a picture of the skaters from their performing days. )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqDW_r_mZaw

 

[NanaPat]

Smal world. According to this blog, the town of Wawa, Ontario, took it's name from the Wawa dairy in Pennsylvania, which grew into the convenience store.

http://www.nj.com/middlesex/index.s...a_get_its_name_a_not-so-wild_goose_chase.html

But the article doesn't mention Ontario at all. It says the Wawa convenience store chain in New Jersey was named after the town of Wawa Pennsylvania.

No Ontario towns were harmed (or referenced) in that article!

 

[NanaPat]

I was wishing that the thread would get back to Evgenia's first trip to IKEA to buy furniture for her new apartment, so I could post this. Maybe they will put her in their next ad! (If you pause at 1:17 you can see a picture of the skaters from their performing days. )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqDW_r_mZaw

Love the ad! Does anyone know who the "former figure skaters" and current ad stars are? I found credits for the singer, producer, etc, but not for them!

 

[BillNeal]

But the article doesn't mention Ontario at all. It says the Wawa convenience store chain in New Jersey was named after the town of Wawa Pennsylvania.

No Ontario towns were harmed (or referenced) in that article!

Ya, I didn't see it mentioned in the article either (unless it was mentioned in the podcast).

From wikipedia:

Wawa takes its name from the Ojibwe word for "wild goose", wewe. Wawa was defined as wild goose in The Song of Hiawatha.

It seems, together with the article that Mathman posted, that both towns were named after the Ojibwe word.

 

[ancientpeas]

Are Russian's really also obsessed with monuments to big things? Maybe Maya Angelou is correct and “We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.”

https://www.flightcentre.ca/blog/the-good-the-big-and-the-ugly-visit-these-monuments/ And this list does not include The giant perogie or The giant Apple (to go with Montreal's Giant Orange) but this one does: https://travel2next.com/12-big-things-quirky-landmarks-in-canada/

Also there is a giant (trigger warning) Spider out front of the National Art Gallery https://goo.gl/images/ms8S2x

 

[Mathman]

But the article doesn't mention Ontario at all. It says the Wawa convenience store chain in New Jersey was named after the town of Wawa Pennsylvania.

No Ontario towns were harmed (or referenced) in that article!

Ya, I didn't see it mentioned in the article either (unless it was mentioned in the podcast).

From wikipedia:



It seems, together with the article that Mathman posted, that both towns were named after the Ojibwe word.

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But I did find out that Wawa, Pennsylvania, was formerly called Grubb's Bridge.

 

[TGee]

Are Russian's really also obsessed with monuments to big things? Maybe Maya Angelou is correct and “We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.”

https://www.flightcentre.ca/blog/the-good-the-big-and-the-ugly-visit-these-monuments/ And this list does not include The giant perogie or The giant Apple (to go with Montreal's Giant Orange) but this one does: https://travel2next.com/12-big-things-quirky-landmarks-in-canada/

Also there is a giant (trigger warning) Spider out front of the National Art Gallery https://goo.gl/images/ms8S2x

Mama is ART! [emoji2]

And a symbol of maternal devotion. (She is carrying her eggs around with her.)

And good Russian (and other Slavic) children know from folktales that the spiders are the industrious good creatures.

I'm sure Zhenya will appreciate our national capital's giant statue.

 

[synteis]

I can't remember what's the replacement for the giant plastic duck (https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/06/30/giant-rubber-duck-makes-a-splash-in-toronto.html) this year but there should be another oversized statue

 

[BillNeal]

It's gonna be hot, hot, hot this weekend in Toronto, feeling like 40+ Celcius with the humidity. An arena may be the best place to be for Evgenia