Saturday, June 14, 2008

Toronto

First, 2 movies:
Lions for Lambs (A) - A must see movie from Robert Redford about the different angles of the war. Basically a series of conversations between a politician and a CNN reporter, a student and Poly Sci professor etc. It's kind of sad that a movie like this that should be made, probably was only able to be made because Robert Redford has enough pull to do it after making a lot of money for the people who think a new Incredible Hulk movie was long overdue.

Day Zero (B) - I don't know why we are in a war theme at home, but this movie asks what if we brought the draft back now. It follows 3 people who were just drafted and you see how they handle it.

I spent most of the week in Toronto. We were delayed a day which gave us the first opportunity to run around the city. We went to a Blue Jays game:

We did the tour behind Niagra Falls:

We saw a nice rainbow that I had to send to my wife:

On my brother Mike's reco, we ate dinner 800 ft in the air at the revolving restraunt:

(I'm just waiting for Mike to sign off on my $110 dinner)

And learned something sad about the falls:

In the picture you can see the huge cloud of mist that rises out of the falls. The falls used to be clear of most of this mist as it stayed down low. They did a study and found that all of the construction around the falls (hotels and casinos) changed the airflow over the falls. Now instead of blowing out any mist that comes up, the air dives into the falls and causes it to rise higher blocking the view.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

i feel like you were ready for bed when you wrote this. the second movie was called "day zero."

Anonymous said...

Awesome rainbow pic!

Karen said...

your last fact is quite ironic!

Anonymous said...

Dave, that's 110 Canadian dollars so its only ....oh yeah nevermind. Did you like the external elevator?

Mike