helen-louise's journal

Plan for our trip to Canada:

Day	AM	PM	Evening	Sleeping
Thu 28th	Flying - flight leaves 11:45	Flying - flight arrives 14:55	Shopping / wandering	Staying at Toronto Travellers Home, 588 Dundas Street West
Fri 29th	Sleeping.	Toronto Zoo	Toronto Zoo Dinner with bcholmes & the_siobhan	Staying at Toronto Travellers Home, 588 Dundas Street West
Sat 30th	Getting picked up by geminigirl & zedrikcayne	Wedding of hoopycat and veryfineredwine	Wedding of hoopycat and veryfineredwine	In Hamilton.
Sun 1st	In Hamilton.	A whole load of faffing	Niagara Falls with geminigirl & zedrikcayne TrainBus back to Toronto	Staying at Toronto Travellers Home, 588 Dundas Street West
Mon 2nd	Sleeping/faffing Lunch at Fresh on Crawford	Ontario Science Centre	Royal Ontario Museum Dinner with epi_lj & okoshun & clawfoot at Lahore Tikka House	Staying at Toronto Travellers Home, 588 Dundas Street West
Tue 3rd	Shopping at Whole Foods Buying stamps	Paramount Canada's Wonderland	Paramount Canada's Wonderland	Staying at Toronto Travellers Home, 588 Dundas Street West
Wed 4th	Sleeping/faffing/Dropping bags off at epi_lj & okoshun's Lunch at Fresh on Spadina	Paramount Canada's Wonderland	Richard flies home - flight leaves 21:50 Dinner with epi_lj & okoshun at Magic Oven	Staying with epi_lj & okoshun
Thu 5th	Zonking	A whole lot of shopping down Yonge Street	Dinner with futabachan & Amanda at Spring Rolls then drive-in cinema with Sue & Amanda & sweeties	Staying with epi_lj & okoshun
Fri 6th	Zonked out Shopping/lunch at Whole Foods	More shopping in Kensington Market	Dinner with epi_lj & okoshun at Lick's	Staying with epi_lj & okoshun
Sat 7th	Sleeeeping Lunch at Fresh on Crawford	Shopping on Queen St W then Toronto Outdoor Art Festival with epi_lj & okoshun	I fly back - flight leaves 23:50.	On the plane :(

You'll notice a whole load of empty there. The things we definitely want to do are:

• Toronto Zoo (open 9:00am - 7:30pm every day).
  
• Ontario Science Centre (open 10 am - 8 pm Tuesdays to Fridays).
  
• Paramount Canada's Wonderland (what a stupid name that is) (open 10am-10pm, Splash Works open 11am-8pm). Note to self: Wear sports bra!

The Zoo or Science Centre will be done on Friday, depending on the weather. Weather's good, so we're going to the Zoo. Richard does want to see the Science Centre before he leaves, so we'll need to schedule that in somewhen.

The theme park will be after the wedding, on Tuesday and/or Wednesday. It may involve two days if we do the rides and waterpark as two separate days, or one veeeeerry long day if I can acquire sufficient baratron-compatible food for that.

epi_lj and okoshun have suggested the Royal Ontario Museum on Monday 2nd.

Feel free to suggest meeting up for dinner. I am vegan but Richard eats anything. Chinese and Indian always work well (even your average, run-of-the-mill, meat-serving Chinese can make at least one thing I can eat), Italian is often good, American-style burgers & meat places are usually bad. I'm looking at the Happycow listings for Toronto and getting in a muddle - nowhere seems to have exclusively good reviews. The one thing I do know is we won't be going to Buddha's Vegetarian Foods at 666 Dundas St W, as pretty much all the reviews said it was greasy, and my grease tolerance is far lower than the average person's. We might go to the Cafe 668 Vegetarian Restaurant next door at 668 Dundas St W, as it has an equal mix of good and bad reviews.