On Saturday myself, my
mother and my mother’s twin all went to the Health Expo down that the Direct
Energy Centre. The Health Expo was open to the public for free and it was also
where anyone who was participating in the Goodlife Toronto Marathon was registering
and getting their digital chips activated, and whatever else you have to do
before a marathon.
As usual these past few weeks there’s a story just on getting
down there. We would normally go to Union Station and take the 509 or 510
streetcar down to exhibition place. When we arrived at Union station the area
for the streetcars was blocked off, I’m assuming for construction, so we had to
go out of the station and up to the street level to get a shuttle bus. Normally
just a quick adjustment for a regular TTC rider, you know bus for streetcar in
your head, but when we got to around Bathurst we had to get off the bus and get
onto another street car. I have no idea why they couldn’t just stick with one
or the other on the route.
When we arrived at the Expo
we got a nice little bag packed full of energy bars, ads, a magazine, some
stickers and a nice little coupon for two free admissions to the ProHealExpo in
Aug, can’t wait for that. We now have a nice bowl packed full of energy bars on
our dining room table.
Once through the door we
entered a contest with Goodlife, that booth I have an issue with, there was
only one entrance and exit for the Expo and right after you went through the
doors you had to walk right through this Goodlife booth, plus with everyone coming
in and entering this contest and getting a little freebie, I got some lip balm,
it was just way too crowded at the front.
After we finished up with
the Goodlife booth we went systematically through the booths, one row at a
time, I find it the best way to cover every booth and make sure you don’t miss
anything. The Health Expo was about one third of the Green Living Show so that
did help on time, we were all at the Green Living Show for about six hours, we
were only at the Health Expo for about two maybe three hours. We tried a lot of
protein drinks, shakes, and bars, we also had some boxed coconut water, I’m not
a big fan of coconut to begin with, except in a pinna calada, and I hate it. My
mom and her twin got a complimentary hand massage from a booth selling organic
had lotions; they both enjoyed it, unfortunately for me my eczema was kind of
acting up so I didn’t get it done. Molson Canadian had a booth, they gave away
coupons for a free six pack of their 67 beer, you know the diet beer, I’m
guessing they aren’t doing as well as they thought with that brand. There was a
booth for Weight Watchers, they gave out samples of chips they have. My mom was
first successful with her weight loss through Weight Watchers.
There were a few things that
I noticed at the Health Expo, there were a lot of protein dinks, shakes and
bars, there were a few booths telling you that the water you’re drinking is
terrible, even if it’s filtered you need their hydration water, I’m not even
going to try to explain that one. There was a lot of overpriced clothes and
equipment, yeah there’s equipment besides shoes for runners. There was even a
booth dedicated to protecting your bare feet, they were selling socks. And there were about four or five booths for chiropractors
there. I have nothing against chiropractors, one helped me deal with some of my
back issues when even my doctor couldn’t help, but doe one little expo need
five booths for them? If they all got together and had one booth under like the
chiropractic board of Canada or whatever kind of association they have would
have made way more sense.
It was a great Expo though,
lots of free stuff, lots of coupons for me to use. I wonder which expo or show
we’re going to next?
