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Our goal was to head out of Ottawa early to beat the rush-hour traffic and to arrive in Toronto after it's...but...our early morning departure took a little longer than we had hoped.
We had to roll up our tent and pack it back away. It was of crucial importance and we were scared that we would forget it. But, I am happy to say we did not!
With the tent back in Jerusalem, and our bags shoved onto the back seat we headed out.
Ah, welcome to rush-hour Ottawa traffic! Oh...and massive construction projects.
It took us a while to get through Ottawa, but we did, and before we knew it we were on the 401 !! There we saw incredibly well placed speed-traps, police on patrol, many, many signs warning us of the potential fine for speeding and a semi trailer on fire. Yes, I do mean just the semi-trailer. Somehow the driver had managed to unhook his truck from the trailer and get it out of harms way before the trailer really got on fire. By the time we drove past it was definitely on fire. Does anyone know hoe just the trailer can catch on fire? What would cause something like that to happen?
All traffic on the highway heading in the same direction as the semi trailer was could not get through. (Construction took up one lane, and the semi was in the other, so it was just too unsafe to pass). Luckily our lane, headed for Ottawa was still on the move.
The 401 looks just like the Deerfoot (AKA Highway 2) until...you get like 80km from Toronto itself. From then on it turns into massive amounts of lanes. Express lanes, and collector lanes, merge lanes, exiting ramps and stuff of the sort which make up the core of the 401, especially once we get close to Toronto itself.. It is, quite obviously the busiest highway in North America, without a doubt.
With help from 3 sets of directions we fathomed out the collector lanes rather fast and made it with no trouble to our destination. We were staying at "Auntie Anne's" a family friend of my sidekicks family---and as soon as we arrived and were settled in she gave us lunch. A big bowl of soup and a grilled ham and cheese sandwich. Now we are really getting spoiled!
Once done lunch we headed to the Subway and then into downtown Toronto, where we met Cam-- my boyfriends best friend. He is currently taking his Masters at U of T, so we were able to meet up with him and get another guided tour. (Just like the one Amy gave us in Ottawa, but much, much longer)!!
We walked and we walked and we walked. Literally, we did! But, we did get to see tons and tons of stuff and get a good feel for the City of Toronto (well definitely its downtown core) and we were also able to catch up with Cam at the same time.
The boys got ice cream and later we got coffee and slurpees and Cam showed us the dungeon he sleeps in while taking the U of T Master's program. He lives in the basement and well the place definitely has a "modern" look with two cement walls and the other two with painted dry wall or whatever it is. It was quite interesting to see...
We saw the CN Tower, the waterfront, the Hudson's Bay Company Building , MuchMusic, Queen Street, China town and the market near it...and after all of that it felt like our feet were going to fall off.
It was definitely the most amount of walking we had done it one day and we were absolutely exhausted when it was all said and done.
After our excellent tour we headed back to the Subway and arrived at Auntie Annes. We were cooked a delicious steak dinner!!-- we are definitely spoiled now!
Thank-you for the great dinner!!
After dinner we sorted out a few more plans for out trip and one big one.
Read my next post to see what it is!!!
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