Livin it up Toronto Style!

C and I are in Ontario right now relaxing and seeing the sites! We got here on Thursday afternoon and spent the last couple of days hanging out in Toronto with C's brother Mike and his wife Tara. They have been SOOO sweet and taken us around to some of the really cool tourist spots in TO (Tara is 9+months pregnant with their first, due last Wed)! I've never been to Eastern Canada before, so being here in the fall is a real treat!

We went to the C.N. Tower yesterday for lunch and it was AMAZING! C.N. Tower is an observatory tower and revolving restaraunt that was the tallest manmade structure in the world for years and years. There is a section of floor that is made of glass and it is so freaky! The tower is over 1200 ft high, so looking down is scary!
Here's the view from the observatory deck. It was super windy and cold even though Toronto was about 24 degrees yesterday.

View from the base.

We also went to the Toronto Zoo! It was so much fun! I'm not usually too into zoos, but this one was absolutely amazing! It has over 5000 animals on acres and acres of forest land in the middle of the city! So cool! C is family friends with one of the zookeepers there, so she took us on a behind the scenes tour of the African pavilion. We got to meet (and touch) a big python, chameleon and a pygmy hippopotamus names Abu! She was adorable! As soon as she heard people in her area she came running over to the fence! All my pics of her are super blurry, so I probably won't post em.

Full-size hippo (not sweet Abu)!

A gorgeous African elephant! I've never seen an elephant in real life, but I've always been in love with them, so it was pretty special to be so close! They are so amazing! We also saw giraffes, tigers, lions, zebra, gorillas, orangutans, baboons, cheetahs....the list goes on! It was so much fun! We missed a couple of pavillions b/c everyone was getting a bit tired after roaming the zoo for 4 hours! Next time!!!