Trip to TORONTO (part 2)
Friday, January 27, 2006

Just recalled that it's hard to visualize the jacuzzi which i mentioned in the previous post. Anyway, the day view from the jacuzzi room is real beautiful. See the wooden box by the corner? it's where the tub is... my gosh... can't imagine how relax it can b just to lie there for hours, at the comfort of your own house, without afraid that others might be angry that you hog the 'facility' for too long.

ok, pack to my day2-tour. we started off by taking pictures of those big houses on the hill. it was snowing really heavily that our itinery will somehow fail. Can't take much pictures on our way to the station the ground is slippery, the weather is too cold and "train-waits-for-no-man'. Wonder if you guys can see the snow on the pics. Snowing is so common nowadays. Still remember how excited i was when i first felt it falling on my cheeks. nehz... i can't wait to see more Mr. Sunny now.

We reach there on time but the GO-train was late. yeah, Rouge Hill was where we stayed. Typical tourists like us enjoy taking pictures at anythin and everything.. such as the train station. other than that, more than half our journey was spent on taking pics. The photo at the right-hand-corner shows the view of Lake Ontario behind us. yeah, we are all set to start our free-and-easy tour at TORONTO...






Our 1st stop was at this station called "christie". I They even have a "Jane" station. But anyway, we went to "Little Korea" because Joo misses her hometown-food and was craving for Kimchi. Was searching for a nice korean bbq but due to budget constraint, we ended up at some simple-looking store as the prices of those more nicely-furnished ones are kind of steep. haha. At the end of the meal, there's no additional charges for TAX->a pleasant surprise! By the way, all the eating places in canada require us to pay TIPS of 15% and it is kinda compulsory and it's therefore a total of 30% extra.. And since we are prepared to pay for that, we indeed gave a generous amount of 15% tips though they didnt ask for it. heehee... "lao zi you qian".. muahaha

Since the weather had turned really good, we want to save on transport and sincee all the places that we wanna vist are so near to one another... might as well walk to immerse into the culture. haha.

So we Q.C a few buildings and took pictuers with the ones which we think are nicer and more unique. Some indeed look like a castle. can't wait for my U.K trip to visit those magnificent structures. The picture on the right-hand corner is part of University of Toronto. Darn.. it's so beautiful...*you'll understand why i say that when i show you pictures of university of waterloo*

We headed to Bata shoe museum. Kailin told me that B.A.T.A = Buy And Throw Away. We thought the museum shows all the collection of shoes from the shop BATA. But apparently, it's this lady called Sonja Bata who has been collecting footwear in the 1940s and thus decided to showcase her ever-increasing collection in this museum. Today, this museum actually keeps shoes which belong to famous people - from royalty to religios figures, sports heroes to artists blah blah blah. The pair of shoes from the top left corner was worn by Princess Diana while the one on the top right corner was by Ronald McDonald's. The picture in the centre shows the door knob with their museum's logo carved on it. so antique... There are so many weirds shoes - really high one that can reach your hips, leafy ones, coiled ones and many others WHICH SEEM 'UNWEARABLE'.

We found this corner which they have all types of shoes which are free for us to try on. Though it sounds nothing special but the gals are having so much fun switching to different types of shoes and snapping picture. Haha.. i love the ah-go-go slippers. My feet are big lah.. cannot fit into some so limited options.

4levels of shoe-exhibits is no joke. haha. But if you really read all the caption, i guess you can learn alot and which is what kailin did.

I don't even know that shoes can vary soooo much. manage to see Cinderella's glass slippers. so sweet... Some other tinny winnie shoes, porcelain shoes etc

can't afford to spend too much time since we made a reservation at CN tower. Anyway, they are just shoes. Don't have to take longer than a glance.




Whooosh... we headed to Chinatown..... Sigh.. i was sooooo disappointed.. was expecting the exact same atmosphere like what we have in Singapore when it should be really crowded this period. nah.. can't even find my favourite pineapple tart and mini popiah. Pui.. so lousy.. I even wanted to get all my "nian huo"(lunar new year stuff) but they don't even have a decent shop which sells those. Rows of chinese restaurant are what they used to define "Chinatown"? ok, so as not to make a wasted trip, we bought 15mandarin oranges, egg tarts and 'you char kway". Boohoo.. i miss my homeland...

well, to show that i had really went to Chinatown, here are the pictures as evidence. We are just amazed by how tall CN tower is. So we just took a few shots of it from Chinatown. Can't wait to walk there asap.

yeap, so here we are at CN tower. We have done our homework and knew that we don't have to pay admission charge to get up to the peak of the tower IF we have dinner at their revolving restaurant called '360 restaurant'. Since it's a wiser choice as compared to paying to go up and down we go agn, we chose tt option. The night before, kailin was telling us that her hallmate suggest that we can climb up by stairs and we can save the admission fee of $28CAD. Well, it's 115storeys but why not? Throughout the whole nite, we keep ourselves mentally and physically prepared but we feel so stupid to realize that all these are just lies... damn! NOTHING OF THAT SORT...

Anyway, we made a wise choice to reach there at about 4:30pm to catch both the day and night view. it's really picturesque though dap was saying that it's no difference from swissotel. ["it's all in the mind" ~adapted from Mavis Toh]. The lift went up to abt 350m at the speed of 22km/hr. We took abt 61s to reach the restaunt. Arghhhh, why i sound so... ok, nvm...

We can't help taking pictures but the patient waiter has raelly good service. We are so busy snapping and forget all about ordering of food and still trouble the waiter to take picture of us. It's a posh restaurant afterall. It's really bad enough to be 'under-dressed' and yet we still behave like a 'mountain-tortoise'. 2storeys down will lead us to the glass bottom deck. Not as fantastic as i've thought. Mayb civil engineers have yet thought of a brilliant way to have the entire level made of glass. So it's only a small part of the entire deck. So we lied ard the floor and the cars below look like pieces of chocolate. haha


Finally, we settled down for dinner in the romantic atmosphere but from our perspective, it's a little too dim.
ok, perhaps it's just us who don't know how to appreciate. Still, the food was great. For the price that we are paying, it should be good man! each of us paid ard $45CAD. = SIN$65. I didnt even spend so much on food when i was back in Singapore. What's on my mind?! It's for the experience.. once in a lifetime. it's all worthwhile <- ok, that's what i keep telling myself. The serving was so small and i was craving for ice-cream after that. And i was extremely satisfied with my dairy-queen ice-cream. i miss venezia gelato. That marks the end of our day 2... I didnt buy anythin that day but spend so much money. Sorry mum and dad!

P.S hey boy (brother), CN tower's was 'born' on 28th Oct. Though it's not the same year, you can still feel that there's certain connection when you see this signboard. haha. next time, Can celebrate your birthday there...

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