Toronto Canada Mission

We spent the rest of Spring Break in Canada visiting GG and Grandpa Green on their mission!

We left Cleveland Monday morning and traveled through Niagara on our way to Toronto. Ben didn't get to go with us last year so we decided to stop and see the falls. We saw them from the Canada side this time and I'm so glad we stopped! It was a totally different view and the falls were still half frozen with big chunks of ice. It was amazing!

It was also fun to explore the city of Niagara. It was kind of like a mini Las Vegas with so many bright and crazy fun things to see.+ We all had a blast!

When we finally made it to GG and Grandpa's apartment Ellie got sick and threw up all night long! Poor baby!!

Tuesday we decided to stay close to home in case Ellie started throwing up again so we had GG and Grandpa give us a tour of the mission office where they work and the surrounding area. Later they gave us a tour of the city of Toronto, including sites from Dad's first mission here when he was 19. It was fun to see what they do as missionaries and hear stories from Grandpa's first mission! I guess we were having too much fun to take pics because I didn't get a single one from this day :/

Wednesday we headed downtown on the bus to see the CN Tower and the aquarium 

We took a long elevator ride way up to the observation deck and restaurant of the CN Tower. The elevator had a glass floor so it was a little scary, but fun. The restaurant rotates with big windows you can see all of Toronto over the course of your meal...unless of course you go on a rainy, cloudy day like we did and all you can see out the windows are clouds. It was kind of disappointing that we didn't get the amazing view, but the food was delicious and the kids had a blast pretending like we were in a cool airplane eating a fancy meal :)

 After lunch we went to the observation deck with the glass floors. It was still super cloudy so we couldn't see anything but clouds. It made it less scary to walk on the glass floors :) And we had a blast just being with GG and Grandpa Green!

 The kids also loved the gift shop where we had another bounty moose sighting and saw a giant Lego CN Tower!

After the CN Tower adventure we headed next door to Ripley's Aquarium. It was an awesome aquarium where we saw tons of amazing sea animals from inside views!

Glow in the dark Jelly Fish

 Petting sharks, stingrays and horseshoe crabs

 Giant Crabs

 And giant lobsters

 And friendly, high fiving, octopuses :)

  

We had a super fun day at the CN Tower and Aquarium! The only way we got our kids to leave was by telling them we got to ride the train home!

I guess we were worn out from our adventurous day :)

Ben didn't even make it through scriptures at bed time. Dax is never going to sleep on his own again after this trip!

Our last day in Toronto we got to spend with Brendan, Marli and Luke!!

We had a fun morning hanging around GG and Grandpa's apartment while they went into their office to get some work done. Ellie was glued to Marli's side playing a lava princess game, Cole had a blast playing with Luke, and Dax loved Brendan's teasing :)

After GG and Grandpa finished some work we drove north to a Maple Bush where we learned how they tap trees and make maple syrup. It was fun to learn and even more fun to try the syrup on giant plate sized pancakes!

We toured a little bit of the area before heading back to Toronto. We stopped at one of the many lakes in the area and it was still frozen over! Cole stepped onto the ice for a second until I made him get off in case it broke!

To top off our fun day, Ben and I got to go to the Toronto Temple with my dad to do some sealings with their ward. It was a beautiful way to end our trip! 

Thanks for the awesome Spring Break GG and Grandpa!