The first day in Toronto
Rach and I had a day to ourselves in Toronto while Chris and Kaeleigh (the couple we were staying with) were at work. We bought some Toronto CityPass’s so we could get into all the big attractions for cheap (you can save even more if you buy them from costco.ca). Our first stop was Casa Loma (our pictures on flickr).
The first thing I discovered is that “Casa Loma” was the name of the area before the castle was ever built. “Casa Loma” is Spanish for “House on the Hill”. Pretty much this Sir Henry guy wanted to build a castle for himself so he designed it and had it built. After a lot of bad luck he lost most of his money and the castle was seized for $27k in back taxes. You can read more about Casa Loma on wikipedia if you care. We did the audio tour around the castle, went through some tunnels and secret passages, and that was pretty much it. In the basement of the castle is a little (likely over-priced) restaurant that we avoided. Oh, and a bunch of movies (X-men) were filmed here like .
Our next stop for the day was the CN Tower. We wanted to eat lunch in the spinning restaurant but after we waited in line for 20 minutes to get half way up the tower we realized we were suppose to make reservations at the bottom of the tower. We waited another 20 minutes to get to the top of the tower where we took a bunch of pictures. Instead of hitting up the fancy spinning restaurant we went to the cheaper restaurant which was not crazy priced and really, I can just walk around the floor. The best part of the CN Tower is the glass floor area where, you guessed it, you walk on glass. This is me standing on the glass looking down:
It took quite a bit of coaxing to get Rach to step onto the glass. She eventually gave in but it was only long enough for me to take a picture:
Our last stop of the day was to the Royal Ontario Museum (our pictures). It was a pretty cool for a museum, I guess. They had some big paperweight exhibit setup. Exciting! I don’t really have much to say about the museum so I’m just going to end this post with the prized paper weight on display.
Hemant J. Naidu said,
September 7, 2007 @ 1:51 pm
You have to run and jump onto the glass floor, and watch the people’s reaction that are standing on it. Priceless.
Jeffrey Vanneste said,
September 7, 2007 @ 2:24 pm
Heh, it would be pretty funny to go and jump beside people while they were standing on a piece of glass.
Shannon said,
September 7, 2007 @ 2:29 pm
I have to say that you have a pretty kick-ass camera. The pictures are so crisp! The ones you took at the zoo the other day were so nice. I am now jealous. And Colin..well, there was never any question.