The TO

4 Aug -- It's the last morning in Ottawa, and we have decided to break fast at the hotel's restaurant. It's not bad, though a bit overpriced. We waited for a bit in the Ottawa VIA station. We took the 12:30ish train to Toronto, due to get us into the city around 5pm. It was a lovely train, a 4 hour train is just perfect, not too short, not too long, not too uncomfortable. I saw lots of bogs as we got out of Ottawa, a few blue herons in said bogs which train tracks were literally going right through, and farmland in between Ottawa and Toronto. Around Oshawa, which is around 45 minutes outside of Toronto, there began manufacturing plants to add to the landscape. the big GM plant in Canada is located here, though I did not see it. I had first heard of Oshawa in Canadian City, a geography class I had in second year, it reminded me then, as it still does of Osh Gosh Begosh.

We rolled into Toronto amidst a bit of rain and got the subway up to Spadina station, where we walked the rest of the way to our accomadations at the U of T... ugh... they were cheap, which I am proud of Matt for getting, but also a mix between depressing and scary, I am scared to go to the bathroom alone, less some B horror film should come to life here. Anyways, it's not tooooo bad, and like i said, it's cheap. We wandered down Spadina, through Chinatown, to find Queen St, and head over to Smokeless Joe's, a bar with over 250 beers, the most in Toronto, on John St. After sampling some French, Canadian, and American beers, we had supper at a Korean/Japanese place on Queen. It was darn good, then we called it a night.

5 Aug --We got up early to a Res breakfast here at Wilson Hall, then made quick work to get downtown to the Hockey Hall of Fame on Front St. It was everything I had wanted it to be! We saw displays on inductees, the Canadiens dressing room, displays on other hockey leagues, got to play forwards and goalies, got to see broadcast booths, played trivia, and of course saw all of the NHL trophies. Like I said, since it is the coolest game on earth, it was an awesome place to visit, despite being in the same city as those despised Maple Leafs, ugh. We then treked over to the St. Lawrence Market, a farmer's market in downtown, which was pretty cool, we were going to get some supplies for lunch and breakfast tomorrrow, but to no avail, it was hard to find peanut butter! Then we headed back over towards the CN tower and the SkyDome thinking that we might want to catch a Blue Jays game. The Jays are stinking though, so instead we headed over towards the waterfront, and got ourselves a drink, and a much needed sitting down. Then it was back up Yonge St (pronounced Young... I know, it makes NOOOOO sense....), and over on Queen, where we eventually met up with some of Matt's law school buddies, Robin and Eric, and ended up getting supper and having a few pints. Good times, they are nice people. We're now back in res and about to head to bed to get up bright and early to catch our train over to Winnipeg in the morn.

I have tried to keep this one a little shorter (hope I succeded!) Thanks for the comments so far... hard to believe we're only 6 days into this thing!!!