So on our first day, we did the next best thing. We visited Ripleys Aquarium of Canada, supposedly the biggest aquarium in Canada. It was pretty damn cool I must say. I bloody love aquariums anyway, I'm a huge 'Finding Nemo' fan and fish are just rather interesting, so I had a great time! It was extremely busy of course, as it is currently the school holidays, but we managed to make our way through the crowds and see everything we wanted to. We even got to stroke a stingray which was awesome. Other than Dory and Nemo, stingrays have got to be my favourite kind of fish - just because they always look like they're smiling and I like that. I'm aware how much of a child I sound right now so I'm going to swiftly move on.
Just across the road from the aquarium is the Steam Whistle Brewery. It's free entry, with a free taster and pretty cheap beer. So as Danny is a little bit obsessed with their pilsner (the only beer they actually brew) we popped in for a swift one and a look around. It's actually a really cool place. It's set up in an old steam train repair facility and there are old steam trains in the grounds, so it makes for an interesting walk around. And you can have a beer, so it's win win. We had dinner at a local pub and headed to bed pretty early on our first night. It had been a really long day of travelling the previous day so we were in desperate need of getting a good nights sleep before continuing our adventures.
The morning came around much too quickly, as it always does, so we got up and headed down to the ferry dock to take a trip over to Toronto Island. We walked from one beautiful end to the other, taking in all the gorgeous scenery, looking at the boats and having a little nap on the beach in the sunshine. We laid in the sun for just a little bit too long and I didn't feel very well so we went back to the mainland and wandered around some shops. Danny always knows how to cheer me up! Shopping. Yay. Although I was very good and just looked, no purchases were made. I'm actually getting pretty good at not shopping now. Danny is a lot worse than I am - he's certainly got a lot more clothes in the suitcase than I have that's for sure!
We knew the queue for the CN Tower would be ridiculous so we went over there an hour or so before we knew the sun was due to set in the hope that we would be up there to look over Toronto in both daylight and night time. And we were. It was pretty impressive I must say, the skyline and the water looked lovely as the sun was setting and then illuminating one building to the next. It's not quite as well though out as the Space Needle though, in my opinion. It is A LOT more expensive to go up, and the observation deck is all fenced up with really tightly cross hatched wire so you can't actually take a picture from outside, you have to go up a floor and take it through the glass window which is a bit disappointing. I understand it is for safety reasons but when you're paying that much money it would be nice to have a proper, unblocked view. Oh and to top it off, a little girl was sick on my feet too. It was a great day. But I knew the next day was going to be incredible, so nothing was going to put me on a downer. I popped to the washroom, cleaned my feet in the sink and off we went to have some dinner. Day two complete.
DAY THREE IS NIAGARA FALLS DAY!!!!! We were booked onto the first bus leaving at a reasonable hour, so bright eyed and bushy tailed we headed into the city centre and made our way to Niagara. It is about a 90 minute trip from downtown Toronto into Niagara Falls city and then a short bus journey to the falls themselves. For starters, I had no idea it was a city, I naively just thought the falls were in the middle of nowhere, but it's actually a really weird place. The falls are the most captivating thing I think I have ever seen, and then just up the road there's a strip that sort of copies the Las Vegas strip but in a really cheap and tacky but horrendously overpriced way. It's certainly odd. The falls though, well I don't even think I can sum them up in words. They were just incredible, you really don't even have the slightest idea from a photograph as to the pure size of them! We went on the maid of the mist boat which takes you just 100ft from the falls. You get absolutely soaked from all of the mist falling over you, but I can honestly say it is one of the best things I have had the chance to do. I absolutely loved it. It was certainly the best way to end our time in Toronto. I am a very happy traveller.
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