One of the iconic landmarks of Seattle, the CN tower is where you can get a great look at the city. I was told on the clearest days, you can see across to the U.S. There is a general level where anyone with a ticket can access. It even has an outdoor area that you can go around. Although it was warm on the ground, the outside up that high was freezing. For another fee, you can go up even higher in their skypod. The view is much nicer but oh my gosh that sky pod was a sauna. Terrible ventilation or air conditioning. I feel like I was trapped in a hot car.
Ripley's Aquarium of Canada
Right next to the CN tower. It's small so definitely doable in just a few hours. They have those underwater walkways where you can see large sharks swim above you. My favorite part was the petting pool where you can pet both small and medium sized rays. You'll see my little brother in some of these photos.
Niagara Falls
Decent driving distance away from the city. If you take the wrong exit, you could easily accidentally end up on the bridge to the U.S. The city itself has some interesting places like the casino and a really old style hotel. We got the adventure pass which included the boat ride to get close to the falls, access to the tunnels to take us closer to the falls and some parts of the tunnels go behind the falls, free use of a certain bus to take us to a short hiking trail along the river, and a 4D movie experience of the falls which is fun for the kids. You can tell which boat is which country because the Canadian boats have passengers with red ponchos and the American boats have passengers with blue ponchos.
I always have fun when I'm in Canada and it helps that things are generally cheaper. Also poutine. I'm dying without poutine. Also Tim Hortons and their nutella donuts. Why don't we have nutella donuts?!? Until next time Canada. I'll definitely be back.
