Pancakes, bacon, and coffee (thank you Erik!) and longer street car ride to Museum of Toronto we started our morning. Museum was under some construction but we still enjoyed a great experience. We managed to tag onto a Docent Tour of the Chinese exhibit on the ground floor. WOW. Amazing to contemplate what the development and invention of this ancient culture.
Lots of cool bones!
Casa Loma was a real surprise. It looks like a castle, because Canadian energy mogul/financier (trains, early hydro electric, etc) named Sir Henry Pellatt wanted it that way. He basically spent as much money as possible at the time importing the most elaborate and beautiful furnishings he could. He had a staircase made in in his native Scotland and shipped over to Canada -- it never made it due to sinking...but seriously didn't Canada have enough trees! Anyway, gorgeous beautiful historic ... castle. It has been used in many movies and tv shows so you might recognize some of the hallways. Also has a somewhat unusual WWII history. Supposedly the basements, etc were used for training the British secret service and making various gear for British spies.
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| Oh man this library! |
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| Marveling at the level of indoor plumbing. Better than ours |
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| Top of the castle view |
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