Toronto City (19-21 November 2010)

We were welcomed to Toronto with a home cooked meal and cake from relatives :O) It was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GREAT!!!  And so very yummy.  Hot wonton soup, BBQ chicken, Sheppard’s pie and marble cake.  LOVED IT!!!  We were so excited to eat a home cooked meal that we forgot to take a picture of the food (except for the cake)... LOL... it was the best!!!

Food in Toronto was TOPS!!!  Maybe because we had home cooked meals every night... LOL... but we did buy fruit and thought it was cheap by our (Northern Territory) standards. 

Toronto City (TC) itself is smaller than NYC.  The noticeable difference between TC and NYC, is that TC is spotless clean – no joke!!!  You could lick the subway station floors and not be admitted to the emergency ward of the hospital... it’s that clean!  It was apparently voted North America’s cleanest city at one point in time.  Downside is, shopping there is not as fun as NYC.  TC is also a fairly easy and rather safe city to get around.   

TC highlights include Chinatown, the CN Tower (i.e. the world's second tallest tower as ranked by the World  Federation of Great Towers) and the Rogers Sports Centre.  We (ok I) even got to see the Toronto Christmas Parade (Desiree decided to go window shopping instead).  It was a dreary wait for the parade... I stood there for like 4 hours just to see Santa in November!  Thank goodness I was indoors safe from the biting cold weather. 

 

We experienced a snow flurry (gusts of snow) on one of the days we stayed in TC.  By midday though, the sun had melted that away, so that was about all the snow we saw.  Again, our visit there was way too early for a skiing trip and/or ice hockey game.

Thank you to the family and friends in Toronto for feeding us the best home cooked meals in North America ever!!!  We’ll be back ;O)

WARNING: The weather is so very COLD in Canada.  It’s perhaps one of the first things we noticed entering the country.  The cold in Canada is a different cold completely – unlike what we felt in snowy Aspen USA.  The cold in Canada feels like it goes through your bones and sits in your blood stream.  You literally feel stone frozen.  Freezing from the inside out! 

It’s that cold that Canadians have underground shopping centres to get away from the freezing weather.  We could only handle the cold a little bit at a time and often found ourselves running indoors to get warm.  Winter hadn’t even officially started yet :O/  YIKES!!!