Thursday 21st December 2006

After packing our bags (which we are not enjoying doing everyday!) we checked out of our hostel and headed to downtown Toronto to visit the CN Tower one of the largest towers in all of north america which offers great views of the city. It also has a glass floor in one area where you are able to see directly beneath you. Very scary! We took some obligatory photographs and then we decided to end our stay in Toronto with a fairwell lunch at the top of the CN Tower. It was a lovely lunch with a beautiful view and a nice way to farewell the city.

We returned to collect our bags and then headed to the bus station to catch our bus back to Buffalo. The bus ride seemed to go forever and as we approached the border we were told that we would need to exit the bus at the border and go through customs. Well this wasn´t such an issue as we had already done this on our way to Canada but as we approached the customs officer we noticed that everybody was having their bags inspected and we were most horrified as we didnt really pack our bags so much as throw everything inside and then sit on our bags until we were able to close them! So you can imagine what lay inside! Not only that but Kylie had packed the remaining washing powder which is stored in zip lock bags on the top of her bag and lets just say that the amound left was not alot and looked rather suspicous! However we were very charming to the officers and managed to lift our bags onto the bench where they were inspecting the bags but we think the officers took pity on us when they looked at us struggling with this two huge oversized, massively bulging bags that completely filled the expander zip to breaking point and told us that they didnt need to see inside the bag (more luck for them really cause it really wasnt pretty and would have taken hours to do back up) and so we ended up being the only people on the entire bus who did not have their bags inspected and the rest of the people on the bus we not to impressed!

We arrived at our hostel in one piece and caught the tram back to the hostel from the bus station mostly cause we were too lazy to lug our bags down the street but also because it was free to the stop outside our hostel. We ended the night with some pizza and went to bed early to go to the airport the next morning although our plans were rudely interupted but an elderly woman who was staying at the hostel who is quite possibly the loudest snorer in the world. At 11pm when we still could not sleep we got up and went to watch some television until about 1am when we returned and braved it out until 6am for the bus to the airport. Oh what a night!