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New Year In Toronto

Submitted by Zhu on January 2, 2010 – 9:11 pm19 Comments

Happy New Year everyone!

We left Ottawa on Tuesday to have some fun in Toronto. Now that we are back in Ottawa, there are hundreds of pictures to edit, but I figured I’d start with New Year eve.

In Toronto, most of the party takes place downtown, in Nathan Phillips Square, at the corner of Queen and Bay. There is a small skate rink (small by Ottawa standards — remember, we have the 7.8 kilometers long Rideau Canal!) and skating seemed to be the number one activity. That and eating junk food: I had never seen so many much cotton candy, poutine, hot dog, waffles and sausages!

It wasn’t cold, just a bit rainy. We walked around downtown for a few hours and followed the crowd to Nathan Phillips Square around 11:30 pm. It was quite fun and the small fireworks were a nice touch to the celebration.

So, what are your new years resolutions?

Yonge Street	Pop Corn and Cotton Candy
Bay and Queen	Ice Skating
Hot Dog Stand	Queuing For Food
More Hot Dogs!	Umbrella For Rainy Night
CityTV Party	Look at the Crowd!
Fireworks	Fireworks
Fellow Photographer In The Crowd	Going Back Home

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Nigel Babu says:

January 4, 2010 at 11:13 pm

Resolutions, hmm, I took an ironic resolution to not take any resolution, seriously, its not worth the heartbreak since I rarely meet any.
.-= Nigel Babu´s last blog ..Pushing 150 kg =-.

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Linguist-in-Waiting says:

January 5, 2010 at 11:32 am

Wow. People are all over the place happy! I hope that 2010 is a good year, although I am not sure about that.
.-= Linguist-in-Waiting´s last blog ..Gadgets to Go =-.

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RennyBA's Terella says:

January 7, 2010 at 3:57 pm

Resolutions: Like you, no big resolution… I don’t keep them anyway!

Looks like you had a great trip and celebration in Toronto — I like my own shoot up firework even better though
.-= RennyBA’s Terella´s last blog ..Oslo Blog Gathering at First Millennium Hotel =-.

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Celine says:

January 23, 2010 at 8:01 pm

My New Year resolution is to dream day and night. Because dreaming permits me to be quietly and safely insane every moment of my life…

Just kidding. I don’t make any resolutions.:D
.-= Celine´s last blog ..2009: Another Year of Travel =-.

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