HI Toronto

We've made it to lovely Toronto, Ontario! We'll be staying at another HI (Hostelling International) place for the next two nights. We farfed around Niagara Falls for a bit this morning, seeing an enormous, gorgeous whirlpool, some glass blowing, and of course, the falls themselves in daylight before heading up here.

So far in Toronto, we've done a little walking around the vicinity. Jamie and Katie headed back to the hostel to give Katie's foot a rest and Amanda and I tromped all over the place a while longer. At one point, we met a really nice couple and their friends, who we walked with for a few blocks while they told us about cool stuff to see in the area. Just like everyone else we've talked to, they were blown away that we're driving across the country, but were excited for us and wished us well. Everyone has been really nice. We found a lot of neat restaurants that we're excited to eat at tomorrow, and walked right up under the tower/needle. Click here to check out some of today's photos!

On a side note, our car continues to amaze us. We were concerned that its tragic flaw was the fact that the speedometer only read in mph (look in your car at home, does it have mph AND km/h?! I feel like most do!). Since Canada is one of those completely sane nations that relies on the metric system, we went so far as to create a cheat sheet of some standard speed limits and tape it to the dashboard. Eventually, I decided to fiddle with some of the buttons on the dash (this is a 2008-- basically a computer on wheels) and found a metric setting. The odometer and thermometer were reading in metrics, but it took us a while to understand that the speedometer was also registering in metric measurement, so we spent a few minutes driving waaaay under the speed limit (consider that 50km/h converts to about 30mph... and we were in a 30km/h zone...) before Amanda was clever enough to figure out this FABULOUS feature. Life is good!