Day 1 Winnipeg: Grocery shopping

Started the day off with a good breakfast, and then we headed off to Shoppers Drug Mart at Portage Place, a mall 8 mins walk from the apartment to buy Preggo bus cards which we loaded with 1 week unlimited bus pass.

The mall was being fitted out for the shooting of a movie currently titled Violent Night 2. Based on the decoration, it is going to be a Christmas movie with a 2025 release date.

I also bought a 1-month 30GB Chatr sim and data plan.

Our next stop was Akin's International Foods, a Nigerian food market. Our main find was palm oil, but they didn't have any in small bottles, so we left taking the bus to another African food store.

At African Foodways Market, we bought palm oil, stock fish, etc. Strangely, my Canadian bank card didn't work on their POS terminal, but my Nigerian card did.

From here, we took the bus to Walmart Supercentre to buy all the groceries we needed for our stay in Winnipeg, including six 4 litre bottles of water.

Due to our load, we had to hail a Lyft to take us back to the apartment where Imaobong cooked a sumptuous meal of Egusi soup.Read more