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My Mom and Dad treated us to a night at the Royal York hotel in Toronto. It's right across the street from the train station, and a short walk to a lot of shops and restaurants. As my Mom kept reminding us, The Beatles stayed here when they played in Toronto many moons ago. This is a pic of the lobby all tarted up for Christmas. |
A new mall opened up in the past year called Les Ailes. It's a bit posh, and rather superfluous - Montreal does not need another mall. At any rate, we went to check it out and it had the added bonus of being out of the cold. |
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Another view of the atrium in Les Ailes. |
We had a wander around Old Montreal, which I think is quite pretty and wonderfully quiet this time of year. |
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Paul chatting to Russ in the UK, and being charged an insane amount of money for using an international mobile. He doesn't look too worried about it, though. |
Bonsecours Market, which is filled with shops containing local "artisan" items. |
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Paul, posing slightly as we take pictures and videos of Old Montreal. |
This is Place Jacques-Cartier, and is usually filled with buskers and tourists in the summer. |
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A view down one of the streets as we walked around. |
This is the new Science Centre, right next to the IMAX cinema. |
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The Science Centre inside. It wasn't the most exciting place to be (and kind of lame in comparison to the Ontario Science Centre), but it filled a few hours in the afternoon. |
Another picture inside the Science Centre. |
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Me playing with the funhouse mirrors. Whee! |
This was from a display about how pixels work (i.e. how to make images from individual blocks of colour). Here's my artistic contribution. Awwww. |
