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Look, I don't feel that bad for not blogging. I personally think blogging is on its way out. One day it will just be another one of those funny internet things that sound vaguely familiar like chatrooms, Netscape or Myspace. But in any event, I'm here for a while yet.

Most of you have all but forgotten, but I really did go to Toronto at the end of April. ("I've got pictures to prove I was there, but you don't care.")

Thankfully I put 21st century technology to use and tweeted the whole trip. I knew I would be much too lazy to write up what we did when I got back, and heaven knows that I took only a handful of pictures.

But here are the highlights, if you are the kind of person that actually likes vacation slide shows.

I mentioned before that I wasn't a very good flyer. I like the convenience of getting to a destination in a short amount of time, but I still don't like anything about flying. I appreciate the free movies and drinks which help me take my mind off the rest of the experience. I, horrendously, was the dreaded middle seat both on the way there and back.  I know, I know, I am one of those complainy people mentioned here.

Toronto is Canada's largest city. It is completely different than Western Canada, and even even though we have some of Canada's largest cities in Alberta, it is nothing compared to Toronto.

We did a lot of walking and took public transit everywhere. I will tell you there is no difference between a bus, streetcar, subway or train.

 

We also did a lot of eating. There was so much good food everywhere. In Greektown we had some authentic Greek food and amazing honey balls.  Fresh, the delightful vegetarian restaurant, where the deep fried tofu was amazing. Huge, handmade burgers at the Great Burger Kitchen and fudge I still dream about from Niagara Falls. It is probably good we did so much walking.

We did the regular Toronto sites. Dundas Square, Eatons Centre, St. Lawrence Market, The Distillery, Yorkville and of course, the CN Tower.

The view was pretty amazing. The glass floor and outside observation deck were pretty scary, and so we didn't spend that much time there, but the SkyPod, a glass enclosure on the spire of the the tower, was impressive.

As we were leaving the CN tower we had a chance sighting of a celebrity. A lady excitedly stopped a guy who had just walked past us. It turns out that he was "Ryan" from All My Children. Not keeping up with soaps, Jenny and I had to look him up on IMDB to find out who he really was.

We walked by the Hockey Hall of Fame like the good Canadians we were, but didn't go inside. I bet Wayne Gretzky is sad.

One of my favourite places we visited was the CBC building. I was hoping to catch a glimpse at my favourite Canadian Broadcasting superstars like Peter Mansbridge or George Stroumboulopoulos


But to my excitement, and the excitement of any Canadian from my generation, was all of the Mr. Dressup artifacts that we go to see!

Jenny and I decided to take the GO Train out to Niagara Falls. The train was pretty easy to figure out and it was only a couple of hours until we reached our destination. We, of course, picked one of few rainy days, but it was still an impressive site to see.

We got lost in the rain trying to make it back to the bus and so we were cold, wet and tired and didn't really feel like taking in all of the cheesy sites that Niagara Falls had.

The trip was over much too quickly. It seems like we squeezed in a lifetime of events into a short six days. But the best part of my whole time was just being able to have face-to-face conversations and jokes with Jenny once again. Sometime you don't know what you've got until it's gone.

A HUGE thank you to Jenny for being such a wonderful tour guide. I can't wait until we are in the same time zone again.

No rest for the weary, life seemed to pick up right where I left it. I am looking forward to my next adventure, wherever that may be.

Just keep doing what you're doing.

As Always,