We start out the day at Tim Horton’s, which is very much, a Dunkin Donuts type place, the coffee is good, and so were the Danishes and cheese croissants. We were going to work on the left side of the map; our first stop was “Casa Loma” which is a huge castle at the end of town. It took forever to walk there. I mis-read the distances on the map. We should have taken the train.
The castle was beautiful. It had great grounds, and the guy giving out the audio tour was dressed in leather armor. The highlight of the tour was the underground tunnel to the stables. There was a great echo. I used it well singing some Manowar and Hear-n-Aid. But all these kids were singing some song that I had to assume was from Canadian Idol.
When we were outside of the castle we took pictures in the garden. I had Ani take a shot right by a flower and said our phrase of the trip.
“Make sure there are no bees there.”
Ani laughed and laughed … you know that ruined the shot. But I had her posing on ledges first making fun of this asian couple that was taking their wedding photso there. But I really like how one of them came out and I’ll probably print that one and keep it on my desk.
We found Little Italy. It was really far. We ate at John’s Pizzeria. The food was really good and I enjoyed a 1/2 pinto of Steamwhistle beer. Mmmm Tasty! Little Italy was kind of disappointing overall.
Soon we found ourselves in an area that Ani described as sort of 8th street, but without Grey’s Papaya. It was a real cool mix of cultures. We might have to go back to try some of the foods. We head over to the CN tower next.
The CN Tower is basically exactly the Seattle Space Needle. But it was a really clear day so it was breath taking. They had a glass floor that you could see down to the ground. I never realized I am afraid of heights, but I was so freaked out. I couldn’t step on it.
The coolest thing about the CN Tower or Le Touer CN (as the French Canadians would say) was the security screening devise. It was a thing that looked like a metal detector, but shot jets of air at you. I know that it was looking for bomb materials.
We went back to our hotel, to shower before the game.
We head over to the Rogers centre and I was a little bit surprised that there were a lot of Mets fans there. We were in field level seats about 30 rows back right next to first base. It was a great place to watch a game. The roof was open, and the scoreboards were really big and informative.
The Mets got an early lead for Tom Glavine, who was cruising towards his 11th win. In the next inning two Mets got on and David Wright hit a bomb over the left field wall. Me and the other Mets fans went nuts. I yelled out MVP. I was so pumped.
Lastings Milledge who I am so enjoying adding stuff (at leats in my mind) to the Milledge page.
“Lastings Milledge built the Sky dome in 1989 at the age of 4, now he is demolishing it with his monstrous home runs.”
Milledge’s homer sailed over the centerfield wall. The only thing the Blue jays fans had to cheer for, is their pitchers stuck out enough batters to earn everyone a slice of free pizza.
One thing I have never seen at a live game, two dudes ran onto the field. One guy was quickly tackled the other guy got to centerfield where he was subdued by like five cops. It was pretty cool.
The final score was 6-1. Ani and I picked up some hot dogs and headed back on the train. Another fun day.
We have taken tons of photos ... but our web based ftp program is currently down. So we'll put up photos when we get back home.
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