Monday, July 28, 2008

CN Tower and Camp Night



July 25th

Today, we went to CN Tower! CN Tower is Canada's national tower, the world's tallest building, an important telecommunication hub, and the center of tourism in Toronto.

When we jumped on the elevator, the air pressure hurt a little bit my ears, but still, it didn't kept me from seeing the nice view of Toronto City while rising higher inside the elevator. When we reached the Observation Decks, the wind was blowing violently, so violent that I thought it was going to drag me and send me flying...

I took a lot of pictures in the Observation Decks... What was kinda disappointing for me was the Glass Floor. This is the floor made of thick, very thick, glass and you can stand on it. When you stand on it, you'll see the bottom, and you'll fear the height! The point is that it was disppointing, because I expected it to be large! When I got to the glass floor, I found out that it wasn't as large as I expected... But well, it had the same effect... Sitting in the glass floor, and looking down, I imagined that I was falling as in the Drop Tower of Wonderland, and I was seized with terror...

As we hopped into the elevator again, the miss that was controlling the elevator said that we were going down at the same speed we were going up... And I was like: "Oh my goodness! This is the Drop Tower!" But, it turned out that I was wrong, since it was normal... And well, once again, the air pressure hurt my ears...

We couldn't sleep in our rooms, because they were occupied by disabled people (The ParaOlimpics). So, that night, we had to camp! I was happy... until I found out that we were camping in the same Residence, but in another room. The only difference was that we were all going to sleep in one same room... That night, we watched horror movies (it wasn't scary at all) and ate pizza... Then we slept... on the floor...

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