just like home

i took a trip to get some canadian food today. its actually an american food store (you can't get redvines in canada) but it was filled with stuff i liked to eat in canada and california. it was all pretty expensive but i guess the price includes the shipping costs and import taxes so i stocked up on a few things i've been missing: black beans in a can (i haven't been able to find canned black beans ANYWHERE here even though they have every other type of bean in a can), reese's peanut butter cups (we make our own but they're not the same), triscuits, rice a roni spanish rice, redvines (a favourite that we used to get any time we went down to washington state for gas or shopping trip and when we lived in california) goldfish crackers, m&m chocolate bars (i've actually never seen them before but i love m&ms and these were on special) and aunt jemima's just add water pancake mix (its hard to find just add water mixes here and the one i tried wasn't very good-- i'll be having chocolate chip pancakes tomorrow 8)
it was funny listening to everyone's conversations in the shop too. i've never seen so many people so excited about food before. everyone was pointing out food they love that they haven't seen in a while and they were very excited about it. i actually saw people buying american cereals for $12-13/box (i do have to admit if they'd had honey nut cheerios, not just regular cheerios, i would have done the same though).