Toronto Zoo

Having crashed out for a good night sleep, William had other plans of waking up at 4am for some milk and decided to throw it all up. Having finally cleaned up and woken up Rebecca in the process. We all finally managed to get back to sleep.

We were up and out the hotel by 10am and headed off to Toronto zoo. It was an enormous place and it was rather hilly in some places. 

Rebecca got to see her favourite animal the Hippos (large & pygnamy ones). Tony got to see the Polar bears and my favourite was of course the giant panda bears.

   
    
    
 We saw a lot of animals including the Canadian Moose (elk), grizzly bears, giraffes, meerkats, cougar, tigers, otters, hyena, Lynx, cloud leopard, tamarins, spider monkeys and a lot more.

  
The highlight was seeing the polar bears swim and being fed. 

Having spent nearly 8 hours at the zoo, we headed back to our hotel and found it was taped off the surrounding area. It turns out the tall spike on top of our hotel (Trump Tower) was the cause of it. No ideal and it took us a while to get back and driving the wrong way down a one way street was the only option

We finished our evening off by having a late dinner at a nice micro brewery restaurant which did a great white sangria.

  

Arriving in Toronto

Our day started pretty early and, due to Duncan’s wedding the night before, not only in a campsite on the south coast but also a head that didn’t want to be up at 6am.  We made the airport in good time and grabbed some food in one of the restaurants to sort things out which seemed to work a little.  Flight wasn’t too bad, Rebecca was great as she normally is but William was a bit of a pain although no where near add bad as other babies on the flight. He was good enough, and bad enough, that the flight attendants wandered off with him for a while at one point and Li immediately went to sleep!

Arriving in Toronto and all the bags were easily collected then we were given an upgrade to our car, so now have a big Jeep for the holiday. Really nice to be honest and loads of room. Satnav on and we’re shortly arriving at our very fancy hotel, Trump Tower, in central Toronto. Got to admit, it towas lovely  be greeted so nicely and with valet parking, although the £25 per day parking isn’t so pleasing!

Into the amazing room and then we kept getting disturbed with free stuff, first water then chocolates followed by Ice for the bar then a bowl of fruit! Headed out for some dinner and had a great burger and pulled pork not far from the hotel; crashed for the night as soon as we could on our return