Toronto

I’ve been in Toronto for 2 days. It’s technically only 1 day because the first day was a travel day. I flew in, got my hotel, took a nap and then walked around town. I had a mishap while I was trying to be a kind person…..every time I try to be nice something bad happens. sheesh.
A bum asked me for some spare change. I told him I had no Canadian dollars on me so he asked if I had American money. I have about 6lbs of change weighing down my purse so I thought to myself “this is perfect..let this guy carry the burden from now on and get rid of that change.” I grabbed a huge handful and handed it to him and walked away. About 10 footsteps down the road, after handing my life savings of change over the the man, it dawned on me that I had put my special ring in my change purse while I took Jui Jitsu classes. So I dug into my change purse to feel around for my ring…sure enough it was gone. I most likely handed it over to the homeless man on the street. I turned around to ask the man to double check the change for my ring and he was gone. He probably saw the ring and bolted knowing what a deal he got LOL..
Oh well. As someone pointed out to me, I will have amazing karma from that mishap. 🙂 ( hopefully)
Regardless of the shitty first hour of my trip, what with handing over my expensive ring to a complete stranger, I am having the time of my life. I rather enjoy traveling by myself. I make my own hours, I see what I want to see, I do what I want to do. Nothing stops me.

Today I walked 4 miles round trip from my hotel to the CN Tower. The walk was amazing. I saw some pretty fun things. I saw a black squirrel. I’ve never seen a black squirrel before. I took pictures of the little bastard to prove I saw him. I saw some police on horses. I’ve only seen that in New York. I’m from California, our police ride fast cars and carry guns and mace and stuff to fuck people up.

I walked all the way to the CN tower and by the time I got there I was famished. I had to grab some food with the best view I’ve ever had in my life. I could have sat at that dinner table all day and enjoyed my meal but I wanted to get to the top of the tower and then go back down to see the movies for which I bought tickets.
I got to the top…took a million pictures and then left. it wasn’t as exciting as I thought it would be…I guess I was expecting a free fall or sky diving or something…but that didnt’ happen.

I went back down the towers and watched this amazing 3D movie about Kelly Slater and his quest for the perfect wave, called “The Ultimate Wave“.  It seriously made me want to take some surf lessons. 

After about 3 hours at the tower, I went to dinner, alone. it was awesome. I ordered everything I wanted and had 2 Canadian beers by myself. A young man name Josh came up to my table and asked me if I was “Ariel X” I think this was the first time someone who knew who i was actually came up to ask me if I was who I was. I always get people emailing me after they see me somewhere saying ” hey I saw you here but didn’t want to say anything…” so this was kinda cool for me. I’m sure if I was with someone, Josh wouldn’t have said hello..so I’m glad I was by myself.

I love travelling alone….end of story!

check out the awesome pix I took with my amazing new Nikon Camera. I can’t figure out if I love Toronto of I just love that everything I have with me, my camera, my awesome self and my awesome cellphone that actually works in Canada… Stay tuned for more Toronto Tales.