Toronto Adventures

Today we began the day disappointed. It was gloomy and rainy so we called off our trip to the beach. Instead we visited Casa Loma, which was the second largest private residence until it was sold in the 1930's.

It is actually a castle that was built by Sir Henry Mill Pellatt, a prominent Canadian Financier, industrialist, and military officer in 1911. It cost around $3,500,000 at the time to build over a period of 3 years. It was never completed because during World War I all of his workers had to leave to fight.

The rain let up so we could go out and see the beautiful fountain and gardens. We took the guided tour. We heard the story of how the place was built and what happened to Sir Henry that caused him to loose all of his money. There was an auction that was run by his bank when he defaulted on his loan where all of his possessions were sold off. They did a very poor job of it too. They sold his things at an open auction where there was no minimum bid. A $170,000 pipe organ was sold for $40. Yes not $40,000, but $40. Crazy!

Several movies were filmed there - X-men, Cocktail, Vin Diesel's the Pacifier, and a few others. It was cool b/c Jordan has Xmen so we went home to check out the scenes. After we visited the grounds, the rooms, the tower, and the stables we headed home to change our clothes.

My parents and I at the skywalk between Union Station and the CN Tower.

The CN Tower

Our next stop was the CN Tower where we dined at the 360 restaurant. The Restaurant spins at the top and we got to enjoy the view while we ate. The food was great. Afterwards, we went to the glass floor to look down. That was pretty sweet. Jordan thought it would be really funny to take bad pictures of me all day long. Here is one.

We're pretty tired now. We are going to try and hit the beach again tomorrow. Fingers crossed!