Toronto:
I took these from the top of the CN tower. I found out (one week later) that the panorama effect on my new camera only works with memory cards supplied by Olympus. Bastards! I bought a 16 Meg chip while I was in Toronto as I had used up most of the available photos already and had more than a week to go on this vacation without much hope of a download reprieve. So I took panoramas but can't stitch them together. They're still decent shots though. What do you think?


The CN tower has a glass floor. This was a lot of fun. There was another couple there who were white as sheets as they crossed the glass. They asked me to take a photo of them on the glass (as they held each other in terror). Oh but I had fun with them.
"Sure!" "Come on over!" "OK, now look down."
"This isn't funny."
"Sure it is! Now, everyone jump!" I began to jump up and down on the glass panels at this point.
"No! Please! Don't!"
I found it to be great cruel fun.
I then took their picture and they thanked my multiple times. Glenda and I next ventured outside to see the view from all sides ( albeit through 360 degrees of chicken wire).
Not a minute passed before the same couple showed up and asked me to again take their picture but this time on the outside. I reminded them that there was a two picture maximum before the minimum charges kicked in.
We moved on and Glenda noted a couple further up who she thought were bound to ask me to take their photo as well. As we walked closer, they asked me to take their photo. I may have found a new vocation. Tourist photo patsy.
Do I look like a photo patsy? Apparently so. Glenda was quite good on the trip at spotting the people who were going to ask that I play the role of Matt Brady.
Glenda: "Why don't you offer to take that couple's photo and save us all the time?".
"Nah. I'd rather look at the flowers."
"Scuzee. Kan You Takee Foto"
(Grumble) Sure.
"And get the fountain in?"
(Grumble) Sure.
"Wait, maybe move more to the left?"
(Grumble) Sure.
"Wait, let's get more together sose the fountain is on the right, OK?"
(Grumble) Sure. Click. Great! Bye.


Yousa! Quite a view. Straight down. I kept thinking that some Engineer designed and oversaw the installation of this Glass floor. Hmmmmm. Half of all Engineers finished in the bottom Half of their Class...
Hmmmm.
Class.
Glass.
Half-ass.
Should have passed.

It was fun. If only from the point of view of watching the tourists cower in fear.

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