Day 29: Blue Jays, CN Tower, and Nuit Blanche ending with a Bonfire Party

So we started the day with a trip up the CN Tower which stands at 553.33 metres and is the tallest  free-standing structure in the Western Hemisphere. CN stands for Canadian National the railway company that originally built the tower. 

The views from the tower were amazing, I hadn't witnessed a city with so many skyscrapers before. We could just about see the baseball teams warming up from the top of the tower. 

Any Canadian tourist attraction isn't complete without a moose somewhere. 

We then went to the baseball game - the Toronto Blue Jays vs New York Yankees. The game started slow but there was a home run for Toronto after half an hour which made things exciting for a few minutes. It ended up 3-2 to the Blue Jays so very little happened, baseball is definitely a pastime and not as intense as most sports. 

I spent most of the time admiring the view and talking. We then went to the Eaton Centre (a huge shopping mall) and took a look around before leaving for dinner at Milestones. 

We then stuck around for Nuit Blanche (White Night) - it's a night time arts festival, Toronto turned into a buzzing de facto gallery with the streets littered with over 150 installations. We saw all sorts of things from dancefloors in the streets with correlating lights above to tents filled of smoke full of photocopiers (you were supposed to photocopy your face). I got approached by a stranger while at Nuit Blanche, who turned out to be a model scout, I then proceeded to laugh however I did take his business card (more on that later). 

This was in a theatre called Massey Hall - the first movement of Beethoven's famous sonata titled 'Quasi una Fantasia' which was converted to morse code and transmitted to the moon, reflected back and then played through the grand piano magically by itself. 

So I left Nuit Blanche earlier than I'd have liked to because we were throwing a bonfire party at my house. I came back home to find a huge bonfire alight and lots of guests. We had a great night with the fire department and the police crashing it relatively early (we played the dumb international student card to avoid the fines).