Friday, September 29, 2006 Montreal, QC to Toronto, OT

Raining in Montreal this morning, so we decided to skip a stroll through the botanical garden and hit the road bound for Toronto (about 500km - 6hrs). It's definitely fall here, the colors along the freeway are spectacular in some places. Stopped for a quick lunch at a place called Ogies Cafe & Deli in Brockville, Ontario. It's the kind of place where the women behind the counter ask you if you want butter and mayonnaise on you sandwich. "Neither, thank you." This really throws them for a loop and they look at you as if you're from another planet. Good thing we have one more night in Toronto before we fully join the ranks of the mid-west, surrounded by mayonnaise, yellow mustard, and potato chips. Not that there's anything wrong with that??? Landed in Toronto, it's 5pm, and we're headed out to visit the Museum of the History of Hockey . . . just kidding!

We did visit the CN Tower, which is one of the tallest towers in the world (don't they all say that?) Of course, it comes with a rotating restaurant on the top and several observation decks. It was tall. One fascinating thing was a section of one of the observation decks that had a glass bottom. One could step onto the glass, looking far down below to the ground. Since I'm afraid of heights and Brett is familiar with the properties of glass, both of us were nervous to walk on it. My palms were sweating and my heart beating. We watched people for a while around the glass. Most of the adults were very nervous about stepping out onto it, but the children were fear-free. They ran on the glass, they jumped on the glass, and they had to be dragged off of the glass. I'm conflicted about whether or not the adults were smart or just sadly overly cautious.