May 14th, 1998

Thursday May 14th, 1998
Anaheim Angels 4 @ Toronto Bluejays 5
Stadium: The Skydome
Now: Same (now called Rogers Centre)
Gas: Detroit, MI $6.00
Lodging: Toronto, ON

While neither Brian nor I had ever been to Canada prior to this trip, we were excited to travel into the "Great White North" on this leg of the trip.  However, it was somewhat anticlimactic because we already had done it the night before with Beef and Sweet to get their beer.

Beef's dad was kind enough to get fresh bagels for us before we left, so we had a very nice time hanging out with him before we left.  

We've said before that we took my mom's Honda Civic.  It was a great car and we were very fortunate to take it.  However, it did not have a CD player (Not even a tape deck).  We had brought a portable CD player and some mini-speakers but that did not work.  So we were stuck listening to a lot of radio, I mean a lot of radio.  It was fun to get a flavor of the different areas we travelled by listening to the local radio, but a CD player would have been nice.  All this to say that on the day we travelled to Toronto, it was the same day that Seinfeld was airing its final episode.  That was ALL any radio station, from Detroit to Toronto, were talking about.  As we got close to Toronto we were struck by how smoggy the city was.  

Toronto was the first city we stayed in where we used Mennonite Your Way.  For those not familiar with MYW, it is group of people who offer up their homes to people traveling.  As their website says:  "Mennonite Your Way renews an old tradition among Mennonites, Brethren, and other Christians of “like spirit” by organizing a hospitality network so travelers can share Christian courtesy and fellowship."  We stayed with Burgetz family who were great.  They told us how to get to downtown, gave us some advice, and then let us go on our way.  In fact, they were going out of town and it was just going to be their older daughter and son staying there, but they gave us a set of keys so we could get back in if no one was around.

We took the Yellow Line TTC downtown and headed toward the CN Tower.  We headed to the top which gave us unbelievable views.  The Skydome usually has it's roof closed, but for today's game, the roof was open and you could look down onto them getting the field ready.  The best part of the CN tower is an area that is a Plexiglas floor.  That doesn't seem like a big deal except the only thing separating you from the Plexiglas and the ground is 1,122 ft.  Even though you knew you were safe, it was still really freaky to trust yourself  on the Plexiglas.

The actual game was very exciting with a game winning homerun in the bottom of the ninth, 2 out by Mike Stanley.  The most interesting part was in between innings they would show the Seinfeld episode as it was going.  The only problem was  it would just it wherever it was at that time, which was usually in the middle of some scene.  So none of us really knew what was going on.  Brian and I never saw the episode until about 1 week later when we were at Shana's house in Maryland.