We've heard that if you're going to see Niagara Falls, then you must view it from the Canadian side. Now, we were told this by a Canadian, but, I feel it was a justified statement. I'm not too sure what I was expecting but it was breathe taking. We starred in amazement at it for a while and when you're stood at the part where the water drops off the end its strangely beautiful. We went to the gift shop and there was loads of great Niagara/Canada memorabilia - most of which was perfect for my good friend Helen who is a Moose collector!! There were moose's everywhere!! Now, I don't want to make Helen out to sound like a crazy lady who has a weird obsession with moose's....but someone bought her a moose cuddly toy one day and it's stemmed from there....so we had a bit of fun with all the moose toys for her benefit (resulting in the pic of Paige and I above!). Moving swiftly on, I decided to take a picture of a nice rose (don't you agree that it's nice?) and then we decided to drive over to Niagara on the Lake which was a really pretty town not too far from the falls. It was very quaint and we walked down by the lake and just took in the view. You could see the skyline of Toronto in the far off distance which was pretty cool. It was like looking out into the last scene of The Trueman Show as the view just seemed to end where the sky met the sea. It was really bizarre and looked so fake! We chilled out there for a while before heading back to Toronto for our last night out on the tiles! So we proceeded to have a few too many and collapsed in the early hours. It's safe to say that the day we left Andy in Toronto we were too hungover to move but had to undertake our mammoth journey to Chicago regardless......
So Paige and I embarked on our 12 hour train mission to Toronto from New York. Being totally truthful, it wasn't as bad as we thought it was going to be and time went by really quickly. Obviously there were some annoying people sat near us i.e. young children but we managed to survive the sound of computer games and a couple of Italian men who had their headphones in, whilst playing computer games AND having a very loud conversation all at the same time!! And people say men can't multitask! We made it to Toronto by 8pm where our good friend Andy was waiting to meet us as we are staying with him for our time in Canada. Andy lives in Cabbagetown which I think is the best area name ever. We had a low key first night as we were knackered from the train journey so the following day we went down to the waterfront (which I kept calling the sea but Andy assures me it's a lake). The weather was glorious and there were loads of people out in their boats because of it. In the evening we went to see a Toronto band called Young Empires and they were really great. The venue was cool and they put on a great show. After a few glasses of wine followed by a few smirnoff ices (they had no cider so I panic ordered!), we went to a place called Sneaky Dees where they serve the best nachos ever! The ones pictured above were called the Kind Nachos and they were exactly what our alcohol soaked bodies needed! Was a great introduction into Toronto life!
