Toronto - 2

We Met with Dylan (Who is an old school pal originally from Amlwch and now living near Toronto) and I was in school with him. It was good to catch up and little bit. Pity we couldn't talk for longer, however, you never know we might be back down to Toronto later on in the trip....

We then walked around the City Again... Down to the Water Front... to Little India... Little Italy... Chinatown (Again... we like it) and finally back to the hostel. We popped into the Elephant and Castle Pub which was near the Hostel and then Steph phoned Clare and Duncan (who are friends of hers from Sheffiled) who also happened to be in Toronto this week (As Duncans' Sister live there)

We went out that night and got right royally plastered...no surprises there.

Steph had 2 "Chemical Dogs" aka Hot Dogs from the Street Vendors on the way home as she was in one of those really drunken moods.... I let her and helped her walk home afterwards (I knew she'd regret it in the morning anyway!)

Wakey WAKEY Steph !!!

How Rough is Steph today

The Chemical Dogs had done their thing and combined with the Alcohol... we're not in the best of moods today to say the least

We Changed Rooms (which was a requirement of extending our stay at the hostel... which we still can't figure out to this day why!... what did it matter which bed we were in?)

Anyway, the day was to be allocated to yet another "Day of research" combined with plenty of water and as little Walking as possible.

It was pooring down outside anyway so Steph was let off lightly (I thought anyway!)

We did get out later that afternoon and bought a cheapy $2 umbrella (which is sort of hanging in there still....just!) and after a short walk around the Harbour Front jumped back on the couch in the hostel and watched DVD's for the remainder of the evening before hitting the sacks early!

No Slacking today... we were both up bright and early and after breakfast were off on a sight seeing day. Today was to be the day that there was an Indian Festival over on toronto Island.. so we caught the ferry service over and walked over the island. It was a lovely sunny day and the island was full of people enjoying their Sunday afternoon.

We got a free lunch from the Hari Krishna's on the island (Which is what the festival turned out to be for) said Hari Hari... to a few people.... and then walked from one end of the Island to the Other along the Beaches and numerous Pathways.

Luckily for us the Ferries run from both ends and the middle of the Island, so saving ourselves walking too much (and being a little bit lazy) we caught the ferrry back having spent about 3 hours on the islands having walked from end to end.

We walked back to the Hostel and chilled out (in yet Another changed room) However, this time we'd managed to snag ourselves one of only two double rooms in the hostel (and there was a TV in this one, so we got some snacks and chilled out!)

We checked out of the hostel and there wasn't availability for the Monday night (even though we'd been there nearly a week... but never mind!) and headed to another Hostel nearby (The Canadiana)

This was more of a "Hostel" than a hotel and as such we got more information on trips etc. and especially on visiting Niagara (which is where we'd decided to go next!)

Having checked into the hostel we popped to the Museum in Toronto (Which was free from 4:30pm to 6pm)

It was no where near long enough to see the whole thing (The Museum is massive) and after spending far too long looking at the Egyptian and Peru exhibitions (And getting told off for taking pictures and being made to delete them...whoops !) we only had about half an hour to whizz around the remainder of the Museum.

It looked a great place and if we return to Toronto... I think we'll actually pay to get in and spend all day there (which would be more than easily achieveable too!)

We got back to the Hostel and decided that since it was such a nice evening.. we'd head down (or rather up) the CN Tower.

We walked down and joined in the Queues to get to the First Level (Having spent $25.99 each to get to the first level which included another $9 to get to the Pod Level which was higher again)

Well.... it's not every day you get to go up the tallest Man Made Structure in the world!

It was immense and we were whizzed up in a glass elevator (Lift for us Brits!) shot up the side of the tower at 15mph (Which is quite quick let me tell you!)

We reached the First Level and immediately got into line to get to the second Level. It was soon to be Sunset and we didn't want to miss it!

After 45 Minutes of waiting in line... we finally made it to the Pod Level. We were something stupid like 447metres (1465 Ft) above ground level, Although the Tower continues up to 553.33m (1,815 ft) at the very top!

The View was awesome and the Sun began to set as we got there....

We watched the Sunset and then watched as Toronto "Switched itself on".

We'd decided not to eat in the restaurant as it was $42 for a main (The cheapest) so headed to a nearby bar and I got a load of Chicken Wings and Steph got a Thai Salad which, with a beer each, was still less than the price of the main in the CN Tower!

We Got Up early... and headed to the CN Tower again (To get the Required Photo!)

I know I'm not smiling in the piccie, however, we'd rushed to get there and back before we had to check out of the hostel

We jumped on the bus to drive to Niagara Falls...... Which was to be our next Stop !

Here...maybe.....finally.... we'll decide what the heck we're finally going to do in Canada (or not) and more importantly... how we're going to do it. We might also get to see the most famous Waterfalls in the world also