Toronto

11th of October, Saturday

I woke up to a fresh cup of Tim Horton's coffee and a breakfast muffin. Herb got up early to get some Canadian breakfast. Our first stop was the CN Tower. We got our Toronto Passes (a ticketbook to the most important sights in the city), and we were the first to go up. The CN Tower is a 457 m tall TV Tower, that's open for tourists to see the city. You can see all the way to Rochester, across Lake Ontario! It has an open air balcony (which was freezing cold because of the wind), and a glass floor too. It can make you dizzy, just to look down at it. Sun freaked a little bit out, me and Herb joked with her about it. We spent about an hour there, just looking at the city in the shine of the morning sun. The weather was amazing, luckily.
  Our next stop was Casa Loma. It's the only castle in North America. It was built by a rich businessman, who has a very sad story. Henry Pellat brought electricity to Toronto from the Niagara, but the town took it away from him. Then he made a comeback with airplanes, and those were taken away from him too. He died a poor man, but he made history. Casa Loma was his residence. It's pretty, and built with good taste.
  After the castle, we visited a Hungarian restaurant!!! Yes, it was original Hungarian with Hungarian decoration, waitresses and menus. I spoke Hungarian to a stranger for the first time in almost 2 months, and I only made 10 grammatical mistakes! It felt weird. I was not in my element. But we had great bean and goulash soups and filled cabbage and debreceni sausage. I didn't realize how much I missed Hungarian food. I only had foreign stuff since I've been here, even the water tastes different. But this kitchen had genuine Hungarian specialities. As it turns out, there's quite a bit of a Hungarian community in Toronto. They have their own deli, butcher, everything.
  We also went to the Science Centre. Hungarians might know the Csodák Palotája (Palace of Wonders), which is very similar. It's an interactive science museum. It was quite fun, to stand in front of a giant tree, be in a room with no sound, see how I'll look like when I'm 70 (picture below).
We stayed till 5, and by that time, we were very tired. We walked a lot. We went back to the hotel, and I fell asleep right away. I woke up 3 hours later.
  Toronto is beautiful. It reminds me of Philly. I haven't seen one building, that I would consider ugly. It's modern, lots of skyscrapers and a lot of glass. I could live here.