Awesome!!!! - Day 4
After two days of lazing around and acclimatisation we thought we should do something today. By far the easiest thing to do when in Toronto is to go to the CN Tower. Well I say easy......the problem being that Elijah has been worrying about going up it for months. He doesn't like heights. He had worried about the flight but that had been enjoyed in the end so we were hoping the same would be true of the CN Tower. He spent much of the morning saying he didn't want to but after a while said he would. We drove about 40 miles from Milton to Yorkdale shopping centre so we could get the subway into Union Station. We then walked the Skywalk from the station to the tower. E was clearly nervous and getting more nervous as we got nearer the lifts. As we got on the lift he stopped outside, upset, saying he didn't want to go up. Alice picked him up and he buried his head in her neck as the lift went up. On arrival at the observation deck he, with the others, confidently strolled to the windows and looked out without a care at all!! I. on the other hand, tentatively moved towards the windows, having a mild fear of heights myself. When we ventured down to the glass floor it didn't take long for him to be walking all over it with his two older sisters and mothers. I eventually stood on it briefly. Lulah was not to be persuaded!!
Once down from the tower we wandered through a combination of the streets and the PATH (the underground network of shops and food halls that link the various office blocks without the need to venure outside) to the Eaton Centre, stopping briefly at the free skating rink at City Hall. Only a modest shop at the Eaton Centre. We were looking for boots for Poppy (which we eventually got at the Yorkdale shopping centre on the way back to the car) but got trousers for Tilda. By now we were all a bit hot (the problem of having to dress for the cold and the very warm indoor areas) and tired so we got subway back down to Union as we wanted to go to the Old Spaghetti Factory. We had various good reviews of it online and in guide books. It didn't disappoint. The food was great and plentiful and fantastic value. $80 (40GBP) for a three course meal with unlimited drinks. And the added North American benefit of being served by people who see service as some sort of art or vocation and nothing is too much trouble and everything you do is AWESOME!
So back to the subway then to the Yorkdale Shopping Centre then to the car then to Milton (with the only downer being a first experience of the notorious 401 traffic). All in all a great day.