Vacation in Toronto

 One of my favourite "traditions" that David and I have started since getting married is that we try and take our vacation around our anniversary...having it land around a holiday weekend every year is certainly a plus! It's hard to believe we've been married 4 years already! I'm continually blown away by the amazing gift God made of marriage. In small group we've been learning how God's purpose in marriage is sanctification in our individual lives...but aside from the stretching and growing times (and even in those) it's not like it's a horribly, awful life that you have to endure (like some people try to portray it). Instead, when you're working together as a couple, life doesn't seem like it could get any better! Thank you God for an amazing gift!

One of the clues to enjoying marriage seems to be to HAVE FUN TOGETHER! It's so easy to get bogged down in life and forget about actually having fun. Yay for vacation anniversaries that help us remember this!

We decided to stay closer to home this year since we couldn't find any completely amazing deals anywhere else. So after a crazy weekend of teaching a kid's program, we quickly packed and set off for the world's most popular vacation destination...Toronto.

 Our first stop was "Casa Loma", which claims to be the only castle in North America. It was built by a crazy rich guy that did some amazingly creative things.

 This is us in part of the amazing garden.

 Here is one of the super fancy, cool rooms.

 What a place, eh? There's even an underground tunnel leading to the garage and garden shed.

 We got the CityPass free with our hotel so we were able to go to all the tourist places we've never been to...like the CN Tower.

 This is my very brave husband standing on the glass floor and looking down. I didn't expect to be so freaked out by standing on it. I did stand on it but could barely look down.

 We took the ferry to Toronto Island...how fun! We certainly got our walking in for the day. We basically got off on the far right and walked 5 km to the middle just in time to catch the ferry so we could get back before our parking expired. It was enough to know we want to go back someday...when we have more time.

  There were some amazing views of the CN Tower from the island. It was extra special because we had just been up it that day.

 We made it in time for the ferry!!

 Another day we went to the Toronto Zoo. This was one of the most memorable things...beavers sleeping with a snapping turtle!

This funky bird was willing for us to get really close. I was rather afraid it would choose to peck me as soon as I was looking away from it and at the camera.


All in all we had a lovely time away and saw lots of neat things. Our favourite place was definitely Snakes & Lattes: A Board Game Cafe. Thanks Ashley and Andrew for telling us about it.

It is seriously the most brilliant idea ever. You pay $5 and can play as many board games for as long as you want. It's like a coffee shop but you play games instead of sit on a computer. They need to franchise it and bring it to Muskoka!

They have over 2000 games! We even got to try out the expansion for "Pandemic".