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After getting back (finally) on public transportation to our hotel, Ellen and I met up with Laura and Amy of Team 1547 after not noticing their “WE’RE IN THE PARKING LOT PLEASE COME OUT” text messages for about twenty minutes. We drove into downtown with them for under thirty minutes before deciding there was nothing there to do. Amy is boarding at the Trafalgar Castle School, and had to be back for her curfew. We went back with her (seriously, in case anyone was doubting it, Trafalgar /is/ Hogwarts). Then Laura, Ellen, and I went to this ice cream place and got some really exciting ice cream at a place called Demetre’s. You know how the Canadian dollar is supposed to be worth less than a US dollar so it’s OK that stuff costs more? It’s pretty much 1:1 and stuff still costs more. Wonderful! Amy is from Connecticut (her car’s plates confirm!) and will be going to Northeastern next year, so more good times will be had.

This morning we woke up really early (9:00am) and went to the zoo. They have animals there, which is to be expected for a zoo. We saw the standard African fare, but then went on to the most exciting section: The Canadian Domain. There were wolves and cougars and moose, oh my! For some reason, not many Canadians seemed very interested in the Canadian section of their own zoo. Odd.

Then, after sweet talking the parking attendant at the Ontario Science Center into accepting American quarters for the last dollar of our $8 parking fee, we went to the /absolute coolest/ science museum I have ever been to. It was extremely wide open, and did not feel cluttered or jammed in at all. The exhibits were a mix of the same sort of things you’d see at the Boston Museum of Science and CRAZY AWESOME HIGH TECH STUFF that was really cool. There was this one room that was sort of the “make a mess but play with hot glue and construction materials and generally just get more hands on than anywhere else would even think of letting you.” It was so cool, and the experience was probably improved by going on a weekday during school in the slight afternoon, so almost no one was there. I highly recommend visiting the science museum if you ever are in Toronto. And outside they have the largest bimetallic strip I have ever seen in my entire life. I figured out what it was without even reading the plaque. Gill will be so proud.
More forthcoming (by which I mean check out the other exciting soon-to-be-written-but-sure-to-be-backdated-since-I-won’t-have-internet-until-Monday entries)!