Bottles and Books
We took advantage of the great weather today and headed downtown. We parked at Yorkdale and took the subway down. You can't beat the $9.00 family day pass, unlimited travel for the day for two adults and up to four kids. We took the subway, streetcar and the bus. Here are the girls on the subway as we left Yorkdale station.
Our first stop was the Mountain Equipment Co-op down on King St. Usually this is our last stop of the day, but today it was our first. Unfortunately the climbing wall didn't open until 1:00 pm. We bought some new water bottles, these ones are Bisphenol A (BPA) free. We use to have the Nalgene bottles that were in the news recently. The girls have been coming home from school with some misinformation and we have been trying to figure out what is fact and fiction. Anyways, long story short we bought the Camelbak bottles. After the Co-op we took the streetcar back to Bay St. and waited for the bus to head up Bay St.
Here is part of the Bank of Nova Scotia building.
The TD Centre buildings.
Looking up Bay St. toward old city hall.
We got off at Queen St. and headed over to the Eaton's Centre on our way up to the World's Biggest Bookstore. The old City Hall building.
The Canada Geese are still flying in the Eaton's Centre. Did you know that the artist who created the sculpture "Flight Stop" also created "The Audience", those are the sculptures of the fans that are outside of the Skydome.
While we were having lunch a Protest against Bill C-51 went by on Queen St. Bill C-51 would lead to more regulatory scrutiny of natural health products sold in Canada. The funny thing was the guy with the biggest sign in the middle.
He was marching with the protesters except his sign was about Resisting the Mark of Slavery. Something about how everyone fitted with a bar code and put to forced and rationed labour. Apparently that is what he does all day, walk around with his sign and hand out flyer's
We made our way up Yonge Street and saw the Chalk Master, some guy who takes up part of the sidewalk on the SW corner of Yonge/Dundas. Wonder if he has a permit. This was his picture on our way to the World's Biggest Bookstore.
This was how far he had gotten by the time we came back.
Next to the Chalk guy was this lady, she would stand there like a statue.
Close-up.
A Dairy Milk billboard overlooking Yonge-Dundas Square.
Some of the sights from the square.
It was time to head home, we took the subway back to Bloor and then over to Spadina and then transferring to the Yonge-University-Spadina and back to Yorkdale. On the way down I told the girls about the long people mover they had at the Spadina station. So we figured we would transfer there instead of at St. George. I guess it's been a few years (more like 30) since I was last on it. Imagine our surprise when we turned the corner to see a 450 ft walkway. After a little Google search, we only missed it by 4 years, it was removed it in 2004.
Has anyone seen the renovated Museum stop. We only saw it from the subway car, but it almost looks like it's worth a trip on its own. Here is a picture I found on the Internet.
