Today I arrive back in canada. :D I missed Canada! It's so nice to be back in a country where you're not taking your life in your hands by crossing at a green pedestrian light, at a pedestrian crossing. Americans are just so damned impatient! And, ah, the border was a delight too - perhaps it helps that i have a visa, but all they did was look at my passport and welcome me back :) Didn't even question that I left - i guess they understand that everyone has misjudgements in life occasionally... ::)
So, I only got in at like 2 o'clock today, and by the time i'd got out and had a shower, it was more like 4pm. Nonetheless, I have had a good wander around and formed my unfair snap judgement on Toronto.
I also did my duty as a tourist and paid good money to go up a Tall Building. This is something I neglected to do in Chicago, because, in the end, the Sears tower looks like an office block - a very cool office block, but an office block all the same. I'm not gonna pay to go up an office block...
... a communications tower, now that's a different story altogether!
So. The CN tower is made of slightly over 23,000 elephants and able to hold up to 14 large hippos on some glass.... or something. Maybe I didn't fully take in those statistics.
It's the tallest building in the world!!!!! And if all of their posters and displays say that, and they say it enough times over and over again, well... it's still not true. Maybe if they wish it hard enough the Burj Khalifa will be torn down by an army of angry camels, or sink into the sand just enough that the CN tower can return to it's former glory. (That's one hell of a lot of sinking it will have to do though... and i'm not sure that there aren't a couple of other structures that need to shrink too.)
Nonetheless, we cannot take away from them that their hollow hexagonal structure is home to the worlds highest successful egg drop! That's cooool. Plus, the word "successful" dropped into the mix intrigues me greatly. Successful? How do you not successfully drop an egg, short of an accident with a tube of superglue? I guess we'll never know.
Anywayz, back to my snap judgement on Toronto. Or maybe I'll leave that another day. 5 hours is a little unfair. It's main street (Yonge?) is trying really really hard to be Times Sq attacked with a rolling pin though. That opinion is stuck with me. In reality it's like all the dodgiest bits of Camden (and not the nice hippy bits either) somehow got stuck into the dough as it was being rolled out, and now it just looks kind of dazzlingly grungy... nice...
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