Our Grand Adventure - Toronto

We wanted to get on the road early, but that didn't happen.  Mostly my fault; I can't seem to adjust to the time difference. The drive to Toronto just kept getting longer and longer too, and with construction/weather, we didn't arrive at the Ontario Science Centre until almost 2:00. Since the Centre closed at 4:00, that didn't give us much time.

This is what our drive looked like until we got a good part of the way to Toronto. Pretty, huh? Reminds me of a song...
"Over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house we go..."

We started out with a star show in their little dome theatre. I didn't know that Polaris was not always the North Star! The constellations over Toronto are way different right now from the ones over the Salt Lake Valley. This huge globe was not their dome theatre. It was massive!

My sweetie's favorite displays were the one on Diabetes and the interactive hall with all the engineering stuff (no surprise there). I liked the ones on races and babies. Did you know that "of all the thousands of genes that make up the human genetic code, only a tiny fraction influence skin color"? Neither did I! Although I have always known that we are all brothers and sisters and when all is said and done, none of that matters anyway.

But I digress...

We left the science centre right before they turned out the lights (not really, but almost!), and we drove into the downtown area to check into our hotel. We decided to spend the night here since there are so many things to see and do and we didn't want to drive that hour and a half back and forth. The hotel we are staying in has almost 1400 rooms! But we only needed one and the price was good.

This is the view outside our hotel balcony. We are on the 9th floor.

After we got all checked in, we spent a little down time before we walked a couple of blocks to the subway station, bought return tickets, climbed into the subway, rode 3 stops, got off and then walked a couple more blocks to the Meridian Hall. We had tickets to see the rock opera, "Another Brick In the Wall." The venue was fun, an old time concert hall with tons of seats. It was the opening night for the opera and we were fortunate to have empty seats next to us. The opera itself was a little edgy for us, and at one point I averted my eyes although I don't really think I would have seen actual naked bodies on stage, but the giant screens behind the action also told the story and I didn't want to take any chances. (This is my one quick commercial about the evils of pornography... stay away from it... it is addictive and can ruin lives and break hearts.)

We were some of the first people seated. Pics weren't allowed after the show started.

But I digress... again...

When the show was over, we walked 2 blocks back to the subway station... you know, all the things we did before except for in reverse. When we reached our final stop, before we walked our couple of blocks, we stopped at a Tim Hortin's in the station to grab a quick bite of dinner. It was ok, but not quite as exciting as we were hoping considering we have seen these all over Canada and we were expecting something miraculous.

On the subway

Now we are back at the room and I just got off the phone after talking with the kids for nearly 40 minutes. My sweetie is sleeping and I guess I better get to bed as well. We have SO many more adventures planned for tomorrow!!

You're coming back to hear about them, aren't you?