Cleveland Royalty

Michael Symon is the Iron Chef of America and owns some of the best restaurants in Cleveland. The food on his menus are very simple yet so original and delicious. He is probably the second most famous person in Cleveland (aside from King James). Chris, knowing that I am the worst cook ever, got me Michael Symon's new cookbook for Valentine's Day. Michael was doing a book signing at the local bookstore, so we met him and got my book signed!

Artsy Toronto

We took a morning stroll around Toronto's version of Time Square named Dundas Square. It was only two blocks from our hotel. It was lined in sprawling fashion advertisements and crowded even in the early morning. We made our way to The Art Gallery of Ontario, which is one of the largest art museums in North America. It had many types of art styles, with a seemingly large dose of modern exhibits. In fact, I felt Toronto itself embodied a heavy modernist influence. With that we decided to play with our camera to take a couple modern artsy photos as well. :)

CN Tower

Katie and I got all dressed up for a night out on the town in downtown Toronto. First stop was CN Tower, then on to dinner and drinks in the distillery district. We took tons of pictures at CN Tower, but we totally forgot to take pictures at dinner and the distillery district. We had a great meal at Mill St. Brewery and, of course, had to try a sampler of their microbrews. The CN Tower was crazy tall (previously the tallest in the world until this year when they opened the Burj Khalifa in Dubai). It had lots of cool little nooks to get your heart pounding. Katie was perfectly comfortable hanging out inside, but I explored the outside deck where the wind was blowing really hard 1,152 ft up in the air! They also had a glass floor where you could look straight down 114 floors! The elevator ride up also had glass walls and a glass ceiling. Katie couldn't bear to look, not being the biggest fan of heights, but she was still glad to survive such heights.

Canada Eh!

We ventured across the border into Ontario. The road to Toronto was surrounded by vineyards off the shore of lake Ontario. Our first stop was St. Lawrence Market, a farmer's market in historic Old Town Toronto. We had so much fun walking around the market and tasting the delicious foods.

Cruzin' around Niagara

The Falls

We arrived at the falls on a crisp and sunny morning. It was beautiful out and we were so excited to see the falls. I had visited Niagara Falls on a family vacation when I was a kid and wondered how different my experience would be to see it now. To no surprise, the grandeur of the falls made me feel as miniature as I did before.

Niagara Falls

Katie and I drove up to Toronto for an international weekend getaway and stopped at Niagara Falls on the way.

On the road to Canada