The experiences of a life-long Texan living in Toronto

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Visitors!

It's been quite a while since my last "real" post. Since then, I've had visitors for two weekends and made my first trip back to Texas.

At the beginning of August my brother Todd visited for a long weekend. We had a great time.... Dinner at Cafe Brussel, a couple of Blue Jays-Yankees games, an aborted trip to Niagara Falls (the traffic was horrendous), Cuban cigars, and St. Lawrence Market.

The trip to Texas was mainly for my company's annual convention and user conference, but I was able to visit almost all of my friends in Austin and make a trip down to Dickinson to see the folks. Activities included visiting Melanie and her new baby, some great meals (Hoover's, Smitty's Market in Lockhart, Star Seeds Cafe, and sliders at Reido's), drinking on Sixth Street, and tubing on the Guadalupe. All in all it was a great trip, and coming back to Toronto was pretty difficult.

This past weekend Booth and Mako made the journey from Washington, D.C., to the Great White North. Cafe Brussel (yeah, I like that place), Pomegranate, the CN Tower, The World's Biggest Bookstore (except that it's not), a Blue Jays game from the bar at the SkyDome Renaissance Hotel, and The 40 Year-Old Virgin all made for a great time. But I'm not through.... The trip to the CN Tower (holder of the Guinness Book of World's Records title for World's Tallest Building) yielded some beautiful photographs:



View of the tower from below.


View of the SkyDome and my apartment building from 147 stories up.


Downtown T.O.


The tower casts a long shadow over Toronto.


That's 1122 feet (342 meters) straight down!


Mako runs from the Glass Floor in defeat.


I, on the other hand, am master of all I see ;)


The tower prepares to eat Booth and Mako. They are unimpressed.

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