Ice hockey anyone?

So as in all good weekends - it didn’t start off at the ice hockey - but that was merely the end of a great weekend out.

As promised we headed back out to The Distillery to see the area by day, and we were not disappointed. It is so beautiful and arty and a little quirky – which makes it an awesome place to visit.



Why do we always find the awesome food places - yum fresh bread

 



We're still trying to figure out what the art piece behind us was - but at least it was good for a "Strike a pose" picture!

  

Yes that is a giant spider...





More art





My favourite!! From behind it seems like a pretty ordinary piece...

 

Um... ya

After a very cold walk around checking out the very different art randomly placed around the area – we made our way into any warm looking restaurant hunting down a cup of coffee and some brunch to line our stomachs for the big day that lay ahead of us. Ice Hockey is not for sissies… The Distillery is a definite MUST if you're ever in the area!

Getting back to our vehicle - we were greeted by a fine - "Parking within 3 metres of a fire hydrant" - um ok if there was a line in the road we would have known not to?!? So note to self South Africans - Canada has some crazy road rules that aren't very visible... and there was no way of talking our way out of a $100 fine! Sad panda:(

Coffee in and Distilleried out we made our way to meet up with the other 20 odd JITTIES at Wayne Gretzky’s (a pub belonging to an old ice hockey player) and then on to the Ricoh Coliseum to watch the Toronto Marlies take on Rochester.

Believe it - those are Nachos!

This awesome statue is on route to the Ricoh Coliseum



The Ricoh Coliseum



Now I won’t lie and make out that I’m a raging sports fan – because the truth is that I am not – but an Ice Hockey game is something I really wanted to go see due to all the rumours about players beating the crap out of each other on the ice, and well the Jerry Springer lover in me just thought that would be fun.

 Things some how changed for me when the anthems were being sung. But not only that - in support of the Canadian Armed Forces majority of the crowd were Air force soldiers (IN UNIFORM... yum)... So the whole experience was just that much nicer!

Ice hockey was amazing to watch. Unfortunately the Toronto Marlies lost - which was a little sad - but we got to see some ice fist action and many a player sent to the SIN BIN for bad behaviour. It DEFINITELY is something I would go watch again.



The lights outside the stadium while waiting for a cab to go home.

Note to anyone wanting to travel to Toronto - the street lights in winter make Toronto a beautiful city - I suggest you take a walk down town and take the whole city in.