It's been too long since I've country-hopped, so I took my first long weekend and booked it to the border. Thank you, Canada, for being so close and for having a different currency. It makes the try feel more legit. So, mom, Jess and I stayed at a hotel right across the street from the Royal Ontario Museum. I remember a late night or two walking past here when I used to visit in college. The McDonalds next door looked strangely familiar as well. As for the museum, we checked out the gift shop but decided to hold off on the rest. Museum gift shops are the coolest.
This is why I love fall. Though not quite as colorful as it surely is now, the park was covered in leaves. There was also a group of college kids practicing tight rope walking between two trees. Cool? Possibly.
For as much as I enjoy walking around new cities and seeing all of the architecture, I am not great at remembering what each building is.
This is the view opposite the building above The building on the right gives an awesome reflection We took this route down to China town, I believe. It smelled better than last time (when they were on a garbage strike), but it was also less exciting. I'm undecided about bubble tea and how many fist pumping golden cat statues does one person really need?
The CN tower. Which stands for....? Canadian National?
Posting this just because it reminds me of Times Square/any touristy section of any big city, complete with double decker tour bus. We spent hours looking for good shopping and were semi disappointed. Canadians are hippies (it's true, Julie!). So the clothes reflected that. Toronto was really best for the stellar weather (a fluke), the food, the Canadian accents, and the Timmy Hos on every corner.
Here's a shot I took of the old City Hall which is next door to the very modern City Hall. It is where we started our Ghost Tour of the city. We walked around downtown Toronto for 2 1/2 hours with a crowd a group of people varying in beliefs in the paranormal. It was an incredibly warm night for it and interesting to hear all of the unexplained happenings in the buildings. One girl on a previous tour had an experience at one of the sights in the woman's bathroom. She was at the sink and saw an old lady waiting behind her through the mirror. When she bent over to rinse her hands, she felt the woman pull her hair behind her ear. She stood up and turned around, and there was no one there. Gave me the chills. We skipped out on using that bathroom...though we did sneak into a University of Toronto building and wandered through the girl's pitch black locker room til we found a bathroom. Equally as creepy.
