Canada - Day One

June 10 - Chattanooga/Atlanta to Toronto

What a first day! We actually left from our meeting place 10 minutes EARLY, making it easily into the Atlanta airport. We made it through AirCanada's check- in procedures and the airport's security lines easily, all the while making the straightest lines! While waiting at the airplane's gate, we actually met someone from Toronto who promised to come to out concert on Sunday morning! Once we made it to the Toronto airport, we boarded our tour bus and had a wonderful tour of Toronto with Maureen, our step-on guide Maureen. We took a quick tour of the national hockey hall of fame before making our way to the famed CN Tower. Reminiscent of Seattle's space needle, the boys were enthralled with the impressive structure. Admittedly, though, many of us became a bit squeamish with the glass elevator ride up the 1,815 foot (553 meters) structure, but recalling that we had just gotten off of an airplane that was thousands of feet above the ground seemed to help! After some time in the gift shop and making our way through the crowd of Red Sox fans that were in town to watch the Sox play the Blue Jays, we went for a nice dinner at the Old Spaghetti Factory. While there, we celebrated Cody's birthday...candles, cake, and Cody's conducting of one of the best restaurant "Happy Birthday" renditions ever performed in an Italian restaurant made for the perfect evening. We then made our way to a very nice Holiday Inn in downtown Toronto, just blocks from the parliament building. What a great first day!