Toronto

Here are some pics that I took while we were in Toronto for a long weekend.

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This is my favorite! Check out the three items I circled. I love how it's a Natural Health Product, there's a parental warning, and the Recommended use and dose like it's a drug!

Here's the first stores we ran into in China Town. I loved how everything was in Chinese, then I noticed the permanent sign that says "Everything must go!". The never ending clearance, I love it!

These are all the different spices and mushrooms that were out in front of the markets in Chinatown

These are dried quids. Yes, ENTIRE squids!!

These 5 ladies were so funny, they we in a picking frenzy trying to find the absolute best Lichi Nuts.

This guy was on the corner playing his Sanxian (3-stringed banjo). I just had to give him a looney for the entertainment.

I had to get this pic of a boar head, how often to you come across that!

Here are some whole chickens in the deli with the boar head. I don't know what it's covered in, but it wasn't very appetising to me

Not sure about this cow or why it was in China Town, but it was just interesting enough to take a pic of it.

This is a crowd of people standing in front of the Ashok store. This store has 2 big plasma screens in the front window and they were showing the 2006 World Cup soccor game. Nobody could move from their spots, they were so mesmerized.

Here's the church of Redeemer. I love the way it's totally out of place amongst the giant buildings in the heart of Toronto

I just liked the name of this cloting store. One slip and you're in big trouble!

This was our first taste of downtown Toronto. The "Friendly Stanger" Cannabis Culture Shop. The had everything from bongs to clothes made from hemp, gotta love it!

Here's a tennis court on the Island of Toronto with someone's art work on the cages

This is the first of three houses behind the tennis courst

this is the middle one

..and this is the third and far right house

This house was just too colorful to pass up

Check out the head in the lower right window. I don't think I want to be their neighbor.

This house reminded me of a mini Frank Lloyd Wright house. Some of the locals don't like it because it's not the traditional looking house like the others, but to each his own.

Every Island needs a toilet flower pot, right?

this is one of the many kitties roaming around the island. Funny, but we didn't see any mice there, hmmmm. He's actually yawning, not getting ready to cough up a fur ball.

Here's Uncle Jim tring to take a picture of one of the cats, but the cat will have nothing to do with him.

Here's a pic of the Needle in down town Toronto from just at the base of it

This is a look at the needle from the docks at the Toronto Islands

These are mumified animal we saw at the Royal Ontario Museum

These are the two cat mummies they had displayed

This was a full mummy they were showing off

I thought this display of a women they found curled up among some pottery

This is the front of the Steam Whistle Brewery. It used to be an old railroad roundhouse

This is the plaque they have showing all the different phases they go through to brew their beer

Here's the bottling facility

That's me pulling the actual steam whistle they have in the brewery. It still works!

Here's John Wayne....I mean Uncle Jim moseying around the front of the brewery. Sweet hat he got from Steam Whistle.

Here's Aunt Suzy and Uncle Jim enjoying a ride on the subway

This is a store that's similar to a super Wal-Mart. I just loved the way the have to say it's a real Canadian Superstore. Just so people can distinguish them from all of the fake Canadian Superstores.