On Saturday it was Doors Open Waterloo Region, a daylong event where heritage properties are free and some that are not usually accessible to the public are open. This year they changed things up and had a technology theme and you could look round a whole bunch of techs offices and parts of the University of Waterloo. We tried to have a look at the new Google headquarters for Canada but hundreds of people were queueing in the rain to go in and I absolutely do not queue in the rain outside the UK so we went to the Shopify building instead.
I have absolutely no idea what Shopify do, even having toured their building I have no idea who they are. We chose that one because the Kitchener Post fibbed and said you could try out their virtual reality games (poor Jacob, hopes dashed again) and I was totally not expecting a bunch of techies to have an office that looks like this.
Turns out it is a converted historic distillery and it's amazing. This side of the building is just for employees to hang out in when they're not busy, lucky them.
Here's a cute library with no books in it.
And here's Rose selfie-ing in front of a still.
As well as a virtual reality room there was a yoga studio and a very nice bar with a pool table. Perhaps I should find out what they do and try to work there.
On Saturday evening we took the kids over to Grand River Rocks to try to interest Jacob in some form of physical activity. It worked! He was overheard to say 'I can't wait until next Saturday to do this again' on the way out.
It is an amazing facility with more routes than I could count and a big Boulder in the middle with overhanging bits that you didn't need ropes for, needless to say Rose loved it too. Here's a couple of pics.
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