Canada Trip

Today was a long day, or at least it certainly felt like that. Neither Brian nor I slept well last night, likely as a result, at least on my part, of pre-travel anxiety/excitement. Our train left Ottawa at 8:35am and arrived in Toronto just before 1:00. We deposited our bags with the Via Rail luggage people for $3 per bag for the rest of the afternoon. We promptly purchased weekly passes for the subway system, and a Toronto CityPass, which gets us in to 6 attractions for $60. We took advantage of these newly purchased passes to go up the CN Tower. The view was nothing spectacular, though neither of us had seen it before. I suppose smog is a great part of the cause of that. You really couldn’t see a very long distance in any direction; the only clear view was down.

First impression of Toronto: it is crowded, remarkably ethnically diverse, dirty, hot, humid, and muggy. Also, my arms are itchy because I got sunburned. That’s my own fault, though, not the city’s.