Thursday 31 August 2017

Imi in Canada

Woohoo! My 18th Birthday arrived and along with it a surprise trip to Toronto, Canada with my mum and let me just say it was one of the best trips I've ever been on!
We jetted off early on Saturday morning and arrived in a different time zone later at the beautiful hotel: the Fairmont Royal York. This hotel was so cool; it had so much history as it opened in 1929 and it's featured in many films. And I can't forget that it was the same hotel that the Royal Family stayed in when they visited!! Not only did it have all this interesting stuff, but our room was lovely and the food was incredible!
WE were super tired when we arrived so for the afternoon we decided to take an open-top hop-on-hop-off bus all around the city! No matter the expense of this activity, I would recommend to do it in every city; you get to see the whole city while gaining weird but interesting snippets of information and you get to sit down while doing so (which is great for tired feet).
Day 2 we headed a bit out of the centre of Toronto and to the Ontario Science Centre! We could've spent forever in this amazingly informative place, we only left because it was going to close for the day! It was such a cool place to go because it had interactive innovation sections where you could build your own inventions (super amazing for kids), there was a section all about space and stars, an area about animals, a place where you learnt about the body, an outside nature walk and so much more. I don't think we even explored the whole place! By the end of the day we were extremely tired but we still had a look around PATH which is an underground shopping centre that goes on for 23km underneath the whole of Toronto city!
The next day we went to the CN tower bright and early in the morning because if you go between 8:30-10:30am there will be no queue, but anytime later than that you could be queuing for more than an hour! The views there were incredible, I couldn't believe how high up we were. We spent the rest of the day shopping in the humungous Eaton Centre where we literally shopped 'till we dropped!
For our last full day we took a guided tour to Niagara Falls for the day which was just the most amazing experience, there are no words to describe how beautiful it was! We even went on the boat into the falls which is definitely worth it for the full experience and on the way back we stopped off at Niagara on the Lake, a small town which made you feel like you had stepped back in time and they had the best ice cream there!
Before we headed off on the long journey back home, we spent hours looking at all the different sea creatures at Ripley's Aquarium; the biggest aquarium I've ever been to!! Then we said goodbye to Toronto and since coming home, I've missed it so much! It was just the perfect holiday and these photos show the most amazing moments...















An amazing trip had by both me and my mum, and I would definitely go back in the future because there's plenty more to explore like Casa Loma, the Royal Ontario Museum and of ourse, more shopping!
Love Imi xx

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