USA Holiday 2, September 29 (Thank You Cito)

Only one day to have a look around Toronto, so couldn't really fit everything in. Went down to Yonge & Dundas street, just an intersection of two busy streets in the downtown area, also probably the centre of the retail district. Took the PATH through to the Eaton Centre, although I still don't know exactly what the PATH is. The claim is that it is 28 kilometres long and "the largest underground shopping complex in the world". Firstly, noone wants to live underground. Secondly, noone wants to walk for 28 kilometres. I actually think the PATH is a connection of underground malls/walkways linking the office buildings and subway stations together, and that you actually have to regularly come up to ground level between these underground sections, but I could be wrong.

Old City Hall, probably.

Somewhere around Yonge and Dundas.

Also Yonge and Dundas.

Walked down Yonge past the Air Canada Centre to the riverside. From there you can get a ferry across to Toronto Island. There's an amusement park over there, but only open during summer, the rest is mostly park land, a couple of small beaches, places to hire boats and canoes and stuff like that. Surprisingly people seem to live over here on this small island. If you could get proper TV and internet reception, and can overlook having no shops nearby, it actually might not be so bad.

Home of the 20 win Toronto Raptors.

I'm on a boat.

Toronto skyline. Can you spot CN Tower ?

The other end of Toronto Island.

Real beach.

Back across to Toronto to the Rogers Centre and CN Tower. The CN Tower is so much taller than I expected, and it has some nice light effects at night, but I've got no idea what they actually use it for. The tour to the top was like $40 and perhaps it would have been ok, but I kind of set myself for a no-observation-deck holiday this time around.

Fake beach back in Toronto.

The CN Tower.

So back across the street to the Rogers Centre for the NY Yankees vs Toronto Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre (the Buffalo Bills also play a few NFL games there). This was the last home game for Cito Gaston (manager that won the 1992 and 1993 world series for Toronto) so there was this long celebration thing before the game that went for about 45 minutes. It was fine, except it probably went about 15 minutes too long.

Cito Gaston night.

The Rogers Centre. I liked the stadium, seats were pretty old though.

Since the Yankees had already secured a playoff spot they had nothing much to play for, so they started one of their supposed-to-be-good-but-actually-not pitchers who gave up a 7-0 lead and they lost 8-4 in the end.

Javier Vazquez. Thankfully the last time he played all season.

The CN Tower at night.

Joba.