Day 2: Wednesday December 31, 2008 (New Years Eve)

We woke up a little weird this morning. My dad woke up, then I woke up, then my mom, and when my mom got up my dad fell back asleep. Well it had snowed last night so there was a sheet of white stuff all over the place and it was really nice. We sat around for half an hour and then we decided that we needed some breakfast. So we all got dressed up and headed outside to get some Tim Horton's, which is like Dunkin Donuts for the U.S. people. I got a donut and a muffin and my dad got two muffins and my mom got a coffee and a muffin. We came back and ate our delicious breakfast.

Sunrising behind some buildings, view from our room window

We headed out to go skating. Well on the way one of my skate guards fell off and I didn't notice it until we were at the rink. It fell off when we were crossing the street to get to the rink. Well I was freezing out side trying to put my skates on but I finally got them on. The ice quality was really bad so it was hard for me to skate at first. Then after about 10 mins or so they went and cleaned the ice, after they were done I could skate better but I still would need more practice. My feet were killing me so I didn't skate for a long time but I skated for pretty long.

We went back to the room and took our jackets off so we could go down to the Eaten Centre and have lunch and go shopping. We also saw a poster about the Red Bull Crashed Ice that were going to at the end of January.

We first went to go have lunch at City Grill which is right inside the Eaten Centre. My mom and I got a burger and my dad got a turkey club. It was a very good lunch, and after we finished I went to the Apple store and my parents went around and did there things. I emailed my friend Matthew so we could try to get together at the airport on Saturday and I played with all the computers. That's when I figured out that my dad doesn't know how to work Mac computers so he gets mad at them. I was in there for a very long time and it was kind of getting boring and then my dad came in and I was like "YES"! We had to wait for my mom to get out of some makeup store so we could head back to the store.

We got to the room and just laid down and I played my itouch and typed the journal. We decided to get room service for dinner. I got the club sandwich and my parents got the cob salad. It was really good, then after I ate, I went downstairs to go see if I could check my email and see if Matthew emailed me back about Saturday. I checked my email and he didn't respond so I shut down the computer and headed back upstairs. I got back and my parents are laying down in bed with the t.v. on and then I just went and typed on the journal and asked them "are we going out tonight to the celebration" and they said yes. So I just worked on the journal until it was time to go. I didn't spend the whole time doing the journal, I tried to get some good night photos out our window but they were blurry. So my dad came over and created a good idea by getting the lamp and put a pillow on top of it and them stabilize my camera on it to get good night pictures from the hotel. I did that and they came out really good.

We left the room about 10:45 to go out into the Nathan Phillips square to see the new years eve show. We were out there for about 10 mins then we decided to come back in to keep warm because it was bitter cold outside, I would say about 12 F and with a little wind made it feel much colder, and for the time being there really was nothing to do. So we sat inside and talked and watch people walk by in skirts and shorts and things, We thought they were crazy for doing it but they were probably natives or just plain stupid!!. When we left the hotel again it was about 11:20 and we went back to the area where they were doing the whole show and we walked around the place to find a good place to see. We got mom to take a picture with some of the Toronto Policemen.

We eventually found our way in back by all the photographers. I had to shoot all my pictures HANDHELD because i didn't bring my tripod. I took pictures of all the fireworks going off. My fingers were the coldest because they were holding the camera and its metal. After about 10 more minutes after the New Year started, we headed back inside so we could get into bed and get some sleep for tomorrow.