One more beluga whale 

So this is my montague of the beluga whale. 

So I don't think I have ever seen baluga whales before. Apparently they are one of the kids favourite attractions at the Aquarium. I am discovering that when it comes to things like that, I am very much like a little kid. Everything that the kids liked, I liked too! 

Here he is again, he is so majestic and powerful. 

I wish you could get a picture of how HUGE this guy really is. The picture does him no justice. 

He's a little out of focus, but he is still really cute. 

Stretching out, lazing around, soaking up the attention. 

Sea otters. They were so cute! I liked the sea otters. 

Here fishie, fishie, fishie! 

And this is the trainers holding onto the dolphins' dorsal fins. 

So for my birthday we went to the Aquarium. It was so much fun!!! There were seals, and baluga whales and lots and lots of fish. And of course there were dolphins, but I learnt something that day. Whenever I have gone to shows with dolphins in the past I have seen them in Aus. And the dolphins that we get in Aus are all bottlenose dolphins. So it had never really occurred to me that there were a whole other bunch of dolphins as well. So even though you can't see it that well, these dolphins have completely different noses to bottlenose dolphins and their colouring is very different. 

And on this same day, this was a lot of the work that I did - loading an entire library (albeit a very small one) of books. It was a time of reminiscing (can't spell) as I found books that had captured my imagination throughout my childhood. However one did particularly stand out, "Are You My Mother?" was there, still allowing children to hear the baby bird say, "No, you're a snort!" 

The Third Day, The Frost

So this was a while ago, but it was the third day of frost in Van, as I walked to work. It was funny to hear the gravel crunching under your feet as the hardened moisture in the dirt was broken up, or to make indents in the grass with your feet as the pressure of your soul causes the ice to melt. I guess the sad realty is that it means that it really is getting cold here. 

The lights of the city. 

Again, not sure of the significance of this. Don't even know what it means. I'll get back to you when I've learnt enough Greek to know - which will hopefully be soon, past 300 words in vocab yesterday. 

The caffeteria, albeit a little blurry. Apparently, the guy who runs this place, when told, "You have a very beautiful daughter," replied, "Never eat in my cafeteria again." I guess that's what you get for having a gorgeous child in a Bible college. 

So this is it - Stephen spent something like 5 or 6 years here (I can never get a full handle on the time scale) 

Tyndale (Stephen's Bible College, in case you hadn't caught that) lives on Ballyconnor St in a very nice neighbourhood with lots of trees and expensive cars parked on roads and in driveways and garages. 

The joke goes like this: How do you get married at Tyndal? 1) Find girl 2) Take girl to Second Cup twice 3) Ask girl to marry you at Second Cup 4) Get married.

Apparently it works, pretty much the entire seminary (master program) students are engaged or married.

We only went once, hmm.... 

Swings, very good for long conversations with ones we love... 

So instead of going to visit the major tourist attractions, we went to visit Stephen's old Bible College, namely because I wasn't really interested in Toronto as a city, but far more interested in it because of all the time that Stephen has spent there. So some of the following the photos mean very little to me but mean a lot to Stephen. Like this one! 

Stephen on the train, in a very close close-up. 

So I'm not exactly sure what TTC stands for, but it's something to do with the Toronto trains. Provides for nice kind of picture though. 

The Subway - more essential Toronto. (Pity the picture's out of focus.) Interestingly enough, public transport in Toronto works such that you only pay in directions. That is, if you start a trip and then just keep going in the same direction along the buses and trains, you only have to pay at the start of your journey - it's the one price for any distance as long as you keep travelling the same way. Then once you want to turn around, you have to pay again. Interesting, I think efficiency is one of the big considerations. 

Essential Toronto - huge buildings. This is the CIBC bank building. Interestingly enough, the bank actually owns the building and so apparently this makes them a killing. Besides that, this is their main office for all of Canada (as far as I understand) except for the one in Vancouver - which is also considerably smaller.