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Weather: Hot and sunny during the morning. Rain and thunder storms started at around 3pm.
After breakfast we were off on a bus tour of Toronto. Then, the people that were going up the CN Tower were dropped off at the tower and the rest of the folks got dropped off at the hotel. I, of course, had to go up the CN Tower.
There is a revolving restaurant up the top which takes up half of the floor so we didn't get a 360 degree view but it was still quite a sight. They even have a section called the Glass Floor which, as the name suggests, is a see-through plastic that you can stand on and look down to the ground. A bit disappointing if you've ever been to the Eureka Tower but I guess the CN tower is older.
We were given an hour there which was way too much time. I was ready to leave in 15 minutes. We were then dropped off at our hotel and had the rest of the afternoon free. I had the rest of the afternoon and night free as I wasn't going to the optional dinner cruise on Lake Ontario. My plan was to go to be early and try to get some real sleep. I always have trouble sleeping when I'm touring.
I decided to walk around a bit and found myself at the waterfront on the shores of Lake Ontario. It was very hot and I got sunburned some more. Before I knew it, I had walked for almost two hours. The clouds started to roll in so I decided to head back to the hotel.
As I hadn't had lunch yet and it was already 3pm, I decided to stop off at the Tim Horton's cafe next to the hotel for somethign to eat. Then, I decided against going back to my room, even though I was exhausted, and went in search of the underground shopping "city" that our tour director Linda had told us about. Apparently, there is a whole world of shops right underneath the city so I had to see that for myself.
It wasn't hard to find as it was right off the lobby of the hotel. On the way through, I bumped into Lee and Renzo outside one of the shops. Lee is a very small Asian lady and her hubby Renzo is a big Italian man. Both lovely people. Lee was diagnosed with stomach cancer two years ago and had a fairly large section of her stomach removed. I wondered why she was so thin and, without me asking, the told me when we were walking along the falls in Niagara.
Anyway, they invited me to join them so I did. We ended up walking around for two hours. We started out underground then headed for the shopping strip of Yonge Street. We got caught in the rain on the way back so found a way back to the underground shopping centre through another entrance.
It is huge! We couldn't have walked it all even if we had wanted to. Just before our hotel, we stopped at the food court and got ourselves something to eat in our rooms for dinner. We parted ways on the sixth floor as that's where Lee and Renzo's room was and I continued to my room on the tenth floor.
I ate my dinner, wrote my blog and just relaxed before having an early night. Hopefully, the thunder storm will stop soon so I get some sleep! Tomorrow we head off to Ottawa.
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