Went all the way to toronto just for soup

Well, not quite. I was really looking forward to this weekend and it went quite well. Ernie, Dave and I cramped into the van for our $20 ride, and arrived about 9:30 PM, a bit later than we had originally anticipated. Oak met up with us there and we proceeded to drive around for another 45 minutes to find the hot pot place. If you've never been to a hot pot, it can be easily be described as making your own soup. You get a pile of meat, veggies and various other goodies to put into a couple of different kinds of broth (one of which being incredibly spicy), cook it for a few mins, and then dredge it out with the strainer that's supplied. You can see the aftermath below ;) We then head over to James' apartment and had a couple of drinks. I got to try some very good rum from Cuba. I'm sure James will enlighten me as to the brand again next time he reads this.

So we got up bright and early Saturday morning for the 4 hour (ha) drive to Detroit for the car show just as the first flakes of snow are just starting to fall. We scrambled to the car, grabbed some starbucks, and some McDonalds and got going. The storm got quite bad really quickly however, so our ride down ended up being a bit longer than anticipated. Amazingly enough we didn't get stuck in traffic due to an accident a single time, although we did see several rather nasty accidents in the other direction. So after about 6~7 hours we arrived in Detroit and quickly found the Cobo centre.

The car show was awesome - the amount of money that they spend on advertisments there is ludicrous... but certainly impressive. There were lots of really nice cars to see, but I think the one that stuck on me the most was the Mini convertible - gotta get me one of those :). The show was rather uneventful, excepting for Ernie getting himself lost. We spent about 4 hours at the show, took about 250 pics between us, and head back to the car for another 7 hours in the car.

On Sunday we hit the Walker Hill Korean BBQ - always a good decision. This is like the hotpot, you cook the food yourself, except this time it's a grill in the centre of the table. And it's a bit more meat oriented. Still - tasty. Dave decided it would be the best idea in the world to open a similar restaurant - almost no work since you don't have to do any cooking :)