Oot and Aboot in Canadia (part II)

Now for another of the things that I did whilst in Toronto. I guess the most distinctive landmark is the CN tower, which is allegedly the tallest free standing building in the world, or something. It is pretty tall, and I know that taking the lift up made me feel a little queasy (only a little). Once at the top it did give pretty impressive views of Toronto, although the city side was only averagely interesting. Here's some pictures (note the building in front of the tower in the first picture is where I was working): -





Whilst I was waiting in the queue to go from the main area to the sky-pod....



I was subjected to the following stupid American conversation: -

American Mum - "Why do we need to go up to the sky-pod"
American kid (about 17) - "Because it's quite a long way up and we'll get a better view"
Mum - "How far up?"
Kid - "There's a thing on the wall behind, let's look"
Mum - "OK, it says we are at 1100ft, and the sky-pod is at 1400ft. Wow, that's an extra 500ft, we should definitely go"

At least the kid knew how to handle a camera, this is me sat on the glass floor which you can basically look straight down at the floor from: -



here's a couple more pictures from Niagara too, one of me on the maid in the mist and one looking down on it