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US: Rocky Mountains – – Flying West to San Francisco

Rocky mountains and glacier lakes are always thrilling to see from the window of an airplane.

Canada: Toronto, Ontario – Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto

The seat of government is also a fun place for tourists to hang out. Look for people inside the “O”. Look around the square for sculptures: Three-Way Piece No. 2 (The Archer) by Henry Moore, Oscar Nemon’s statue of Sir Winston Churchill and even a Roman column. If you’re looking to park your car, underneath is one of the world’s largest underground parking garages.

Canada: Toronto, Ontario – Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto

The mayor works here at Toronto City Hall (New City Hall) and lots of tourists play amongst the letters here too.
Nathan Phillips, was the mayor of Toronto from 1955 – 1962. The site has a weekly farmers’ market, musical events, art shows, the winter festival of lights, and also political demonstrations! In the winter, the pool becomes an ice skating rink. This is Canada after all.

Canada: Toronto, Ontario – CN Tower

Acting like a tower?

Canada: Toronto, Ontario – Woody Woodpeckers?

Fun side of Toronto finding this sculpture 2 woodpeckers pecking away in front of the Toronto Convention Center and near the Ripley’s Aquarium. 

Canada: Toronto, Ontario -Spot in a Shark’s Jaw

I don’t think she’s scared inside this shark’s jaw at the Ripley’s  Aquarium of Toronto.

 

Canada: Toronto, Ontario – Ocean Garbage

Though it first looks kind of like a crystal chandelier, you soon learn that this hanging sculpture is the awful garbage killing the fish in the ocean. It’s in the Ripley’s Aquarium of Toronto.

Canada: Toronto, Ontario – Pinky Fish

The colors of the fish in the ocean are the colors of the rainbow. Love this pink-looking jellyfish in the Ripley’s Aquarium of Toronto. 

Canada: Toronto, Ontario – Colorful Fish at Ripley’s Aquarium of Toronto

Exotic fish are easy to find all over the tanks in the Ripley’s Aquarium of Toronto, ON.

Canada: Toronto, Ontario – Shark Tunnel

Kids get to climb through a clear tunnel in the shark tank at the Ripley’s Aquarium of Toronto. Sharks swarm around them. Phooey, I couldn’t fit in…