Toronto

[dragonlady7]

So.
I have this weekend, coming up, off. (Not the next one but the one after that.)
I was thinking, and Dave said maybe he could spare the time-- we could zip off to Toronto for a night.
Being as Toronto's right there and yet I've never been.
(Crossing the Peace Bridge last night Dave said, "Now you're a Buffalonian!", explaining that it's a very Buffalo thing to cross international borders just for Chinese food. As a child, he had difficulty in distinguishing between the tollbooths and Customs. Sometimes, when driving on a big road, you'd stop at a little booth-- half the time, they wanted money; sometimes they wanted to know where you were born, and there was very little difference in his mind.)

Bert, get out of my garbage can or I will clock you one. Thank God your mom is coming home today.

Where was I? Oh yes. I'm not really a Buffalonian until I've zipped off to Toronto for something or other. I need a reason to go there. Does anyone know the city at all? Where should we stay? Where should we go? What should we do?

And no, the Xena-meets-Riverdance (as amyjessica put it) LotR musical isn't opening for another year, so that's out.

Comments

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

well, I liked the zoo...but then, I was 12 at the time. I remember it's huge and not very cage-like. I also remember this tunnel that was really really long that you could walk in. There were lots of stores and stuff--it was sort of like a mall, but underground. I remember thinking that was very cool.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Zoo and tunnel. Check.

It strikes me I've never seen the Buffalo zoo either. I drive past it every single day and have never gone in. I even rode my bike past it and hung out looking at the buffaloes in the buffalo pen, which is the only one that overlooks the park and is open so park-goers can see the buffalo without going into the zoo.
Buffalo are stinky.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Blue Jays... You know, I've never actually gone to a major-league baseball game.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

So I hear....

[maggiehoneybite.livejournal.com]

Skip the CN tower; it's highly overrated. The U of T campus is very nice to visit, and the streets of the Annex neighbourhood are nice for walking. The waterfront is nice, too -- although I'm not too sure about this time of year. You could go for Greek food in Greektown, gelato in Little Italy, or Polish food on Roncesvalles... (I don't know about places to stay; I usually crash on my cousin's couch).

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Thank you. I must ponder this. Dave has been to Toronto repeatedly and has no insight except that there's this one biker bar he wouldn't go back to. Helpful.

It *was* spring here, and i assume in Toronto, but it's started snowing again.

Hmm-- I could ask customers. We get a lot of Torontonians flying out of Buffalo because the taxes are cheaper, and they often arrive hours early and sit at the bar because they left enough time to get through the border and then Customs refused to pull them over and strip-search them, so they've got all this time to kill now and are feeling rather relieved... But Canadians can be hard to spot sometimes. Hmm. Stealth-foreigners, they are.

Well, thank you for your suggestions!