Our second full day in Canada had us making like tourists! With the Day Passes dad purchased the day before, we took a series of buses and subway trains to Downtown, locating the Toronto branch of my brother's company. After some frequent map consulting, we finally managed to locate it. We waited a few minutes before he came down before we went about on our way again. After some exploring, we bumped into a couple of elderly Taiwanese and their grandchildren who asked us to take a picture of them, and they kindly offered to take a picture of us in return.
Quite close to this, we spotted the restaurant we had reservations for later that evening: Marche restaurant which I'll talk about a bit more later. We did a bit more walking around before realizing that it was high time for lunch, and so we stopped at a building where a food court was located. Welcome to the First Canadian Place. After ordering separate meals (with a lot to choose from anyway), another of Mom'sold officemates, Tita Louie, met up with us. Ironically, we were dining in her building, which was crazy because she mentioned that she reported that she'd be leaving for a doctor's appointment to meet with us. Whoops!
She took us underground travel from building to building. There were a lot of people here, which explained the complete lack of any up in the streets or so my dad had observed. She took us to a huge bargain store called Honest Ed's, where I found myself a nice red bowtie! It was a neat place full of clothes, tools, knickknacks and food! We spent the rest of the afternoon taking a Streetcar to see more of the sites before finally retracing our steps back to Marche for dinner.
The interesting thing about this particular restaurant was it had various stalls for different cuisines! Their system had a cash card that would total up everything you ordered so you'd pay for any drinks you order and meals for that matter when you were done eating. After looking around the place, I finally settled on trying out a Smoked Salmon Savory Crepe, with cheese and mixed greens and a pesto sauce. And might I say, it was delicious! We stayed there for about three hours since several others of Mom's officemates joined us, so trip down memory lane took a long while that my siblings and I dozed off for a while, haha!
We were finally brought back to our hotel to prepare for our early morning flight to Winnipeg, which I'll talk about in my next post!
Again, pictures to follow.
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