Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Thursday, July 23, 2009
So we headed to Toronto where we had a little tour of the city then headed to our hotel - The Hilton!! Very nice and the comfy-est beds and neutrogena products!! So good! Anyway, we had dinner at the hotel then had a pub crawl - went to some Irish pub first - not much happening there, then headed to some other bar which was really cool. It had all different coloured lights and seemed quite classy - had a terrace too but it was pooring with rain so we didn't go up there and before you know it they decided to send us to the final destination. Our transportation was a big yellow school bus - fun and the guy who run it very funny. Actually we got pulled over by the cops but it was only because the bus driver made an ilegal turn! So anyway the last club was ... yeah interesting with sleazy guys blowing smoke rings at you and grabbing you to dance so... yeah didn't stick around for very long! So yeah had a bit of an early one again and got up bright and early the next morning to go to Niagra falls
. We did a tour with 'chariots of fire' where the bus driver spoke in a monotonic voice the whole time and cracked some lame jokes in the same monotonic voice but it was very funny! So we went up the skyline tower for view of the falls and then headed down to the maid of the mist with our very stylish blue ponchos on!! The falls absolutely soaked us - such an amazing experience with the boat taking us right into the falls so we were surrounded! Was so cool. After that we drove by the whirlpool which has claimed a few lives and then the power station and then headed back to Toronto via a little stop for some wine tasting. We got back to Toronto quite late - didn't have time to climb the CN tower or do anything in Toronto - and headed straight for the Rogers centre to watch the Blue Jays play baseball. Another cool experience and sitting in a section where you had all you can eat popcorn, hotdogs, chips, drinks, peanuts and nachos! The actual game wasn't a very exciting one - not a whole lot of action, but still a good night. We are leaving our tour at 4am in the morning and flying to Vancouver to pick up a new bunch of contiki's so not looking forward to the flight or getting up sooo early:(
