Toronto Tourists

So, here I am in Toronto. Sitting in a very comfortable chair in the Business Centre at the Seneca@York campus.

Last night I barely slept a wink. We woke up at 4:00am to catch our flight from Saskatoon to Winnipeg which then moved on to Toronto. My first two times on an airplane ever and mostly, the experience was quite cool and enjoyable. Except it took some time for my ears and sinuses to adjust making for a painful decent to Winnipeg. After that though it hasn't been nearly as bad.

Got into Toronto and here waiting for us was a guy holding a sign reading "Assiniboine Community College." We followed him and he led us to a limo which, after getting lost a few times, brought us here to the Seneca campus at York University. Our rooms are amazing. We're staying in $250 a night individual executive suites (the school got a bit of a discount on them I believe) and they feature all the amenities except for in room Internet which I found rather odd. It doesn't much matter though since we have access to the penthouse where they have a lounge packed with complimentary goodies, the business centre where they have multiple computers and printers, and an exercise room.

After checking in we had a bit of time to ourselves before we had to get all dressed up and walk down the street to the award ceremonies and dinner. The dinner was amazing, 3 course with all kinds of fancy dishes that tasted fantastic. We got our certificates and Tim and I went up to the podium and rambled off a few words. We then got a tour of the Seneca facilities before we headed back to our rooms, changed again and headed on down to downtown Toronto for a night on the town.

Tomorrow the plan is to be up by 8:30am to go for a quick tour of the CBC before our plane departs at 1:00pm. Jessica and I fly from Torono to Calgary where we then connect with another flight that takes us back to Saskatoon. It's been an odd experience these past few hours. Usually I'm forced to track 3 time zones. The Brandon time zone where most of my friends and family are, the Saskatoon timezone where I am and the Quebec timezone where Alix is. Today and tomorrow however I have the very rare treat of being in the same timezone as Alix meaning that all my time conversions are off. It's a weird feeling since usually Alix and I are 4000km apart but this weekend we're only a thousand. That's still a huge distance, far too much for a quick visit but still, It's sorta nice to be a little closer for a little while.

Flying feels like cheating. When you drive somewhere and you arrive at your destination it actually feels like you earned your way there but when you fly it happens so quick that It's hard to even believe at first where you are. Not to say I don't like it, I do! Our place had seatback satellite TV! But at the sametime it doesn't have quick the satisfaction that a roadtrip has.

Anyways, I should be off I suppose. I added Global pictures to the gallery earlier this week so feel free to take a look at those. Pictures from the Toronto trip should be up by Monday so stay tuned for a look at this giant city. I told someone today, this feels far too large for a Canadian city...

Type ya'll Monday!