We left just after half five, and went to catch the metro to the airport. Luckily, our one day passes from the previous day still worked, as it hadn't been 24 hours since we bought them, so we didn't have to faff around buying tickets. Success!
Once at the airport and through security, we spent ages trying to find a currency exchange so we could get some Canadian dollars, since we were headed to Toronto. This was the morning that the really horrible Batman cinema shooting was all over the news so we listened and watched people talking about that as we waited to board the plane. One day America will learn to sort out its mental health system and make guns illegal, but until then they're just encouraging people with psychological issues to acquire firearms and go on shooting rampages.
Our plane was possibly my favourite yet. It was more a bus than a plane, with just two seats either side of the aisle, and was pretty tiny in general. The films you could watch were amazing: Kitty watched the Hunger Games and I went for the Sound of Music. Unfortunately, the flight was only an hour and a half long so we didn't even get to see the whole film, but they definitely kept us entertained!
When we arrived in Toronto, we had a reasonably nice security person for once (usually they're pretty psycho with the questions), and went out to the front of the terminal to wait for Emma, who we were staying with. Emma is a friend of Kitty's brother, who he met when he was at university in Toronto for a year.
She wasn't there when we got through the arrivals gate and Kitty started to panic because she realised we didn't even have Emma's number or address. Fail. Soon enough though, Emma came running through the door motioning for us to come outside as she had parked on the drop off road and didn't want to get a ticket.
Emma was very excited to have us and we had a great car journey into Toronto telling her all about our trip so far! Mission of the day was grocery shopping so that we had some food for our stay. We hit up numerous supermarkets around Toronto, including one that was purely organic and healthy, and one which was huge and really nice, it made grocery shopping something that you wanted to do!!!
By the time we got back to Emma's flat it was late afternoon. Emma had borrowed her mum's car to come and collect us, so we briefly met her mum, who was waiting at the flat, before she left to drive home. Emma lives with her boyfriend, James and her dog, Jack. She also has a huge house bunny which is really friendly. Emma and James live on the 23rd floor and their balcony overlooks Lake Ontario. It really is a beautiful view. At one point, Emma was on the balcony with Jack and somehow managed to drop her iPhone over the edge. This wasn't what we were expecting of our afternoon. However, when Emma went down to retrieve what she thought were going to be the pieces of her phone, she found it slightly scratched, but intact and still working. Apparently your iPhone can fall 23 floors, bounce of two balconies and survive?! Don't try this at home kids.
There's a barbecue available for everyone in the apartment building to use so we went down to cook some sausages and take Jack out. There were lots of friendly people and their dogs milling about. It never ceases to amaze me how many people have dogs that live in huge apartment buildings.
Emma and James' TV is actually a huge computer screen which means you can basically watch anything using the Internet. We decided we wanted to watch a horror film, and chose Red State, a film based on the Westborough Baptist Church, i.e. the crazy Christians who protest with signs about how 'God hates fags' or whatever. In the film they also kill people. Standard.
We also decided we really needed to see the new Batman film asap, so James booked us tickets for the next morning. He had started watching Batman Begins in preparation for seeing the new film, so we watched the end of that before heading to bed on our blow up mattress.
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