Canadian Craziness: Day #2
Day #2
Welcome back friends to my blog Canadian Craziness! Today we hung out in Toronto. We had the chance to walk on these super cool Skywalks.
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| Prince and Sir Henry Pellett |
To the left is a picture of the sky-walks, the sky- walks are like bridges with a bunch of windows that go over the train tracks below. But the funny part was that the window were ridicously dirty, but it was still visable. Then we went to Tim Hortons, nicknamed "Timmy's" by most Canadians, and then taking a shuttle and train to the city. In the city we visited the hockey hall of fame. It was pretty cool to see all of the pretty stained glass, we also got to take a picture with the Stanley Cup. Later we went to a beautiful castle called Casa Loma. It was once home to Sir Henry and his wife, Lady Mary Dodgson. Sir Henry had many different secret passages to all of his rooms. In my opinion I think that he was just super lazy, because they said in winter he had passages that led to his stables (he loved riding horses, his most favorite horse's name was Prince. Prince was such a good horse that when a duke friend from another country asked if he could take the horse back with him because he also thought he was a good horse) In Casa Loma there is a room that is Perfectly round. So that means that the doors and walls are made especially so that it can be a perfect circle. One of the highlights of our self guided tour, was the super nice tour guide at the desk who was handing out the devices that gave you information as you roamed the castle.
They were the size of an old graphing calculator with a cellphone like keypad and had a smaller speaker near the bottom. So you listened to it like a cellphone. One of the staff working at Casa Loma told us a few "secrets." One of the secrets was that there was a couple of hidden passeges in the castle. It made me laugh because of what
the they were used for, Sir Henry's wife was obviously the most popular lady in the kingdom, so that brings unwanted dinner parties and tea times on Sir Henry, leaving him with no escape. So what did he do? He built a secret above so he could slip away from his wife with out her finding out what he was doing. The most romantic part of Casa Loma was that Sir Henry loved his wife so much, that he put in a secret pipeline that went directly to her bathtub and shower that were filled with a favorite flowery scent. Another Ironic secret was that when the castle was handed over to a group of nuns, they found a Demon Statue in the castle and were appalled by it so they didn't take the castle. So the Casa Loma staff hid the statue with clues for visitors to find. So on the top right is the final clue to it. Then another exciting highlight of our day was whenever we got to go up into the CN Tower. In the tower we got to go onto 3 different levels. The first level was where you could see on this sheet of glass witha one way mirror where you can see down on the cars and people. The second level was where you got a veiw of the whole city. The 3rd level was called the skywalk. (it cost extra) But anyway it wasn't the coolest level ever. The tower was super fun though. 
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