Downtown Adventure!

Not so long ago. A few weeks before classes broke up for Christmas many of us exchange students realised we seemed to have done everything  except go into Downtown Toronto and explore. Thus we started planning a weekend adventure The Saturday was going to consisted of free things, except for a meal in little Italy. The Sunday would then be full of the thing which cost money and that way people could pick and choose what they wanted to do depending on their budget. I decided to go in for the Saturday but then use Sunday to study (I had a lot of exams and essay's to do plus I can do the costly stuff over the next few months). On the predetermined Saturday we: Tanya (our lovely guide, the only one who had previously explored), Monique, Jesse, Lauren, Andrew, Andrew, Preeti, Angel and I (if someone has been forgotten I apologise).  We started by going to look at Casa Loma. A Castle in Toronto. Built in the early 1900's (?) absolutely stunning on the outside. We didn't go inside because it was extortionate but we got many a photo of the outside.  Next we headed to St Lawrence market where we held a competition splitting of into pairs to see who could find and take a picture of the weirdest thing which was a lot of fun. We also picked up a couple of souvenirs and Christmas presents while there. After this we headed to the distillery district, which is the old part of town, and to our surprise (shows how much research we had done) there was a Christmas market on. So we wondered that for a while. Next we headed over to Kensington Market where Monique found the amazing mighty ducks ice hockey jersey and I picked up my secret Santa present for the secret Santa we had set up with residence friends.  At this point there were only two things left on the day's to do list; eat in Little Italy and visit the Bay Christmas videos.  Everyone was hungry so off we went to Little Italy and found a cafe/bar type place to eat at. Then right into the heart of downtown to the Bay videos, which were pretty cool and a sweet classic story. By this time we were all exhausted so we headed back to campus to rest up for the next day, for some ready to head out for more exploring and for the rest so as to get a lot of study done.