Monday 28th May 2007
The Zooliverse
Toronto Zoo was the order of the day for Jessica's birthday. So we started with breakfast in the hotel's restaurant, an all-you-can-eat buffet including sausages, bacon, scrambled eggs, toast, bagels, juice, cereal, porridge, milk, fruit and the two items I'd been after all week.
Pancakes and maple syrup. I sloshed the syrup on everything eventually. James and Allan dropped by to discuss how to get the various swords the guys had bought back to the island as they obviously wouldn't be allowed on any flight. This was around the point I realised I'd need more money for next year so I could get a freaking sword.
So to the zoo, $60 in a hotel car there, another $60 back. Nice cars though. Somehow, for reasons that remain only known to her Liz had somehow managed to get the opening tune from Cardcaptor Sakura stuck in her head. This was to become a recurring theme of the rest of my time over there.
The zoo was...well a zoo. With all the animals to go with it, one standout moment was the trail back up from the Canada section. It comprised a very steep hill and 3 people (Sarah, Jess, Audrey) clearly unused to walking. Audrey showed all the althletic prowess that had seen me beat her twice in Toronto on Wednesday (racing around the Rogers Center).
The group had got split on the way round the park, Me, Jess, Sarah and Audrey had gone one way fast and the others (Nelly, Mark, Liz, Jen) had gone the same way slowly. This split resulted in our group waiting ages for the others to join us at the exit. This put Jess in a horrific mood.
Several hours, lots of leaving Jess in the room alone for fears of our own safety and one fine cockblocking story from James later Jess cheered up. So we got pizza. Which only me, Nelly, Cripple and George ate. And the other 3 didn't eat much. And there were 2 pizzas.
Full of pizza, Mountain Dew, fresh zoo air and myself I settled down in bed to sleep for the last time in Toronto. Tomorrow I would be sleeping somewhere else.
Swag Obtained
None
Tomorrow
Airport 2: Return of the Airport
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