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June 28th 2007
Published: June 28th 2007
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MEMEME

With wallet in hand... this was before all the drama :-)
So after spending my first 7 months in the West of Canada i've finally made my way over to the East. The East is the political, businessy side of the country. Its where all the culture and old buildings are.

My first stop was Toronto. Mumsy and I flew from Calgary to here- (saved a 2 day bus trip :-) We just booked one night in Toronto.. as we wanted to get down to Niagara Falls! Toronto is a really cool city... sorta reminded me of Sydney- so it had comforting feeling. Trornto is the biggest of the Canadian cities and home to the worlds tallest free standing building, so from where ever you were in the city you could see it :-).

The next day we were off to Niagara... only a 2 hour bus ride and we were there... Niagara is really beautiful and VERY touristy. The main street reminded me of Surfers Paradise... cheesy... bright lights.... People evrywhere- basically corny as hell. The Falls where pretty spectacular- not quite as big as my silly imagination had thought- but still really beautiful! You could see the falls from Canada and the USA- so i bought my
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These falls are Canadian... the others are American
passport along JIC (just in case). It was in my wallet, when idiot Mel put down her wallet to take a photo. Not noticing i walked away and went ot buy sunscreen... when yep- i realised i'd lost my wallet! Ah shit what did i do with it??? So Mumsy and I cruised round trying to find it and it was no where. It suddenly dawned on me that i had no real way of proving who i was wuithout these 2 vital things. So i really satrt fraking out. A girl suggested we go and report to the police. So off we go- we get to the police station and let them know that i've lost my wallet... and just as we're in there they get a radio call that a wallet has been handed in... and yep it belonged to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A lovely Chinese man had handed it into one of the cops walking round :-) Everything ewas still in there... $280... passport... credit card!!!!!! PHEEEWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've never felt so relieved in my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After this mumsy and needed a drink so we went and had dineer and drinks!! We wanted to saty near the falls cause at
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Original name :-)
night they get all lit up.. so we cruised round till it got dark and watched the falls change coulur.
The next day we went over to the US sid and looked round, then went on a thing called 'Journey Behiond The Falls'. So they give you Yellow raincoats and you get to go right down to the Falls and about 1/3 behind them. Here they little portals where you can watch the madness of the water from behind the actual waterfall. This was really awesome... and very wet- lucky we were given the most stylish raincoats ever hehehehe! I thought we all looked like ducks hahaha!

After Niagara we returned to Toronto. And stayed for a cuople of nights. Here we went up the big tower and just cruised round. This was the last that Mumsy and I were doing together cause after here we were on our own :-) On the last night we went out for dinner at a place called 'Rich Garden' i think! And it was a rstaurant where you are given a card and you can coose from about 10 different station what you want to eat- they then swipe you card and
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They're not as big as 'Niagara'
you pay at the end. So we could have Indonesian... seafood... steak... mexican... pizza... pasta....slad....fruit... vege....crepes....waffles etc. You get the picture! Man it was really cool.. everyone could have something different but eat together... it was such a cool idea :-)

The next day Mumsy and I said our goodbyes and she went off to Moncton and I went off to Montreal... it was sad to Mumsy go... but will be good to do it on my own and have the freakin out feling of not knowing anyone or anything :-)

Till next time... PEACE xoxoxox


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All arvo the sun cast rainbows over the falls... it was AMAZING!
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See what i mean???
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This is the American Falls from the US
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Crazy people.. all this to get closer to the action!!!
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The off spary from the falls would reach us 100s of meteres away
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This is how close we got to the falls... thank god for our rain coats...
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Sexy.. i know!!!
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Doesnt show much... but this is behind the falls- it was really noisy
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It was so cheesy.. but i kinda liked it :-)
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The Falls at night

It was so cool to see them all lit up :-)
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The Falls at night

This was my favourite colour
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The Falls at night

yellow was pretty too...
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This is the Parliament building
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The big tower
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The view from the glass floor up the CN tower... couldnt get mumsy to stand on it hehehe
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A random statue thingy in Toronto... cute hey!


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