Photographed by Qiuyu Huang
The following picture speaks for this small trip:
Very interesting facts:
-St. Jacobs has a growing population of 1,891 people (WOW!)
-St. Jacobs is also the headquarters of Home Hardware. This national chain of over 1000 independent hardware retail stores located across Canada was founded in the village in 1963.
As there were not too many things going on in Kitchener, we decided to take a look at this beloved village.
Not many activities that we can do there:
We definitely can join the Farmer’s Market. But it is only open on certain days. Friday is not included.
So we just wandered around.
My impression is that it is a village full of gift stores:
So many quotes:
Read the following two together:
My favorite one:
An antique car:
Antique fans
Piles of boring tires: (Seriously? Qiuyu actually took a photo of them);I wanna kill myself when I saw this picture. Now I wanna be dead forever because I even posted this picture here:
Qiuyu has some ideas for his gift. Either the night lamp or the little stones. Guess what he chose in the end?
Not surprisingly: a stone:
At It’s Artistic – The Gift and Garden Place – a store specialize in unique one-of-a-kind gifts as well as fun and whimsical garden and landscape décor for both indoors and outdoors. Xiao and Qiuyu were video taping the electronic train which goes through the entire store and even outside the building. My only comment on this: wow, you guys have a pure heart…….
But girls had fun in front of camera:
At TOY SOUP, Qiuyu insist on touring the entire store. It is a toy store that is located in a 100-year old renovated church. It is said that the store is filled to the brim with quality toys, crafts, games, puzzles and a dazzling selection of novelties for all ages. But in fact, most of them are not for Qiuyu’s age.
Qiuyu got bored but managed to play another game with the camera:
A guy already got bored:
A lady had to have some fun out of it:
A brilliant photographer made the day:
Look at this picture, I look like 20 pounds heavier:
A couple with awkward smile:
Another couple: so natural:
Lunch time: we have some options (listed on the cell phone screen); but we picked the closest, mainly because: we are too lazy to walk:
Food is ok; an unhappy waitress busy around:
The photographer is VERY diligent:
If you want to kill some time, come visit this village. But if you have something else to do, then don’t.
A seasoned shopper might find this town interesting. But none of the stores catches my attention. For Xiaohua, as she is looking for stuff for her new home, she paid attention to those decoration stores and found this cute stool: But nobody can find the price, not even the girl who works there:
Qiuyu found this typewriter and wanted to carry it home because it is free. We said no:
Around 2:30PM, we parted and headed home immediately.
References:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Jacobs,_Ontario