| | So, I am seriously not a world traveler. I’ve been all over the states but I have barely broke over the border into Canada and to Mexico so this was all new fun for me.
Highlights:
• Okay – So the money is pretty.
• Liters! Not gallons. Dammit! LOL.
• Speeding – But I did not go 50 km over since you evidently loose your life if they catch you … or at least your car, license, and $10K.
• CN Tower – I was actually surprised at the tourists that were there and the smell the brought along with them but it was nice to see the city from up high and read some of the building facts.
• Crepes – We headed to the gayborhood to check the strip and found a little crepe place about to close. Chicken, bacon, and cheese followed by caramel and apples. Awesome.
• Room Service – when you are not getting any time to sleep and you cant seem to find anything might as well just order in so you can save time … Pricy but delicious and perfectly planned.
• Casa Loma – This was the surprise hit of Toronto. Gardens were beautiful and the posted facts were just right for my level of interest. And then there was the tower … which … you go to the third floor, then walk through an unmarked door, then wander to the back where there is a flight of stairs leading to a landing … which hides a spiral stair to another floor … which has yet another spiral stair … which then has a flight of stairs off of it. Now that made me feel nervous about heights a thousand more times that the CN Tower had.
• Royal Ontario Museum – Our game plan was to start from the top and move down to the bottom. On the top floor was an awesome textiles exhibit with pull out drawers and everything. I wish they had had even more Renaissance stuff but the quality and breadth of everything made for the best part of the museum. The rest was really more of the same with a few exhibits it might have been fun to check out… like the Wedgwood, the glass, and the armor.
• Toronto Zoo – Well you hear a lot about how it is one of the top zoos in the world … but I wasn’t all that impressed. Coolest part was going “oh, look, tigers!” and then walking over and saying, “oh wait! More tigers!” Baby snow leopards are super cute. Angry peacocks are not. Walking through the kangaroo area was coolio. But let me just say tooooooo much walking. Like way too much. We were told not to bother with the Canadian animal area – since the walk was so far away. Well, we like to walk so we went for it. Why didn’t anyone bother to tell us that it was at the bottom of a hill? Like, a really really long hill??? The only way we made it back was by following the super hot guy who’d taken his shirt off because of the heat. I think he was probably the best animal on display.
• Niagara’s Fury – sort of a cheezy kid’s attraction but I liked it. The cartoon was cute and the ride was fun – snow was fun and the rain caught me off guard at points.
• Journey Behind the Falls – I was smiling it was so cool to stand that close to them.
• Walk to the Rapids – This was more fun than I expected. The river is just so powerful.
• Maid of the Mist – AWESOME. Getting up into the middle of the falls was unbelievable. Truly a wonder of the world and more than worth the trip. That was the best part of the trip.
• Canadian Falls – Just a note to say that they were shorter than expected and the mist was in the way (which I hear is from the hotels that have been built up around it changing the wind currents) but awesome on the Canadian side and looking forward to going to the American side at some point.
• Tim Horton’s – How can you skip it? Had to bring Kelly there. Come to Chicago please?
And to let you know how well we planned … we didn’t have a map, and the GPS didn’t have Canada in it, and our phones were off because of international rates, and I really didn’t print out that good of directions. But we got all over without any issues at all. |
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