The first leg of the travelling is done and the the tourism has officially commenced!
Had a great night's sleep on a very nice bed. Probably could have slept in a lot longer but we wanted to get to the St Lawrence Markets for breakfast and get on the Hop On Hop Off (HOHO) 2 hr circuit bus ride to take in the sights and sounds Toronto has to offer. Initially we didn't see the signs along the street for the stop points but did see the bus pulled up and legged it to catch up, unfortunately all too slow as it sped off into the distance with us only metres behind. We back tracked and found a stop point and waited for the next one to arrive. We bough a 3 day HOHO bus pass as it is a great way to get around only to find out that they only do 2 day passes, so will need to let our friendly booking girl back home know about that one. To top it off when we went to exchange the voucher for tickets the HOHO girl said "take a seat and I'll bring them to you" after we did the majority of Toronto we jumped off the bus to take the included ferry trip around Lake Ontario and asked her for the tickets, only to be told that she had already given them to us... A quick and polite exchange of words had it all sorted but for a moment we had no tickets at all.
A very broad range of buildings with a mix of old and new and sometimes new with old. From the HOHO we picked out where we would be heading tomorrow as today was all about working out what we would like to see tomorrow. So it'll be Casa Loma Castle and a close up tour of the CN Tower.
We weren't expecting to do the ferry ride until tomorrow however we took the opportunity as we jumped on the HOHO a bit late after spending the morning at St. Lawrence having breakfast. A good 45 min tour around the lake in a very full ferry was great to see the city from the water. Being a Saturday on a long weekend (Canada Day was Friday) in the peak season made the waterfront a busy busy place.
Took in a bit of sun by being on the top of the roofless double-decker and the ferry so we are a lovely shade of pink tonight but the sun doesn't have half the sting that Aussie sun does. We got back in around 4 pm and Pen had a little (5 hr) catch up sleep while I down loaded the 300 odd photos from the day (see above). A quick bite to eat and time to finish this blog and get to bed ready for an earlier start tomorrow.
P.S. still getting used to the 9:30 pm sunsets.
Cheers
Gary and Penny
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