Rogers Centre = Home of the Toronto Blue Jays and a day in Toronto

June 6, 2015

Early morning wakeup for blogging and writing beat writers about Unbound. After a great breakfast, Geoff drove us to the subway station which is quite close to their home. We bought a day pass and rode into the downtown area, transferred one and got out in search of St. Lawrence Market. It is an old historic market with fruit, meats, cheeses, bakeries, vegetables and seafood. It was fun to watch people doing their Saturday shopping. We walked by some historic buildings and then went in search of a bank with an ATM. On the way we passed by a place where they were filming a movie. We couldn't really see anything and I got scolded for trying to take a picture. They film many movies in Toronto.

 We walked around Rogers Centre and then headed into the Steam Whistle brewpub and had a sample of the one beer they brew. It was quite good.

We headed back to the ballpark. We stopped at the ticket window as we had read that if we had a 500 level ticket we would not be able to access other levels of the field or concessions. Customer service assured us that we could so we went to guest services and talked to them briefly about Unbound and got our 1^st time visitor paper. We ended up buying a hamburger to eat which was actually quite tasty with 18 choices of condiments. Piled high, a full meal! We talked to one of the ushers in the 100 level and told him about our road trip.  We also talked to a really fun and nice young man, Todd,  who works in the Canadian military and we ended up chatting through most of the game. We talked to him about our trip, baseball and Unbound. He was very knowledgeable about baseball and players on many teams.

 After a few innings of standing at the rail, the usher subtly came up to us and told us we could sit in the empty seats in his section. How nice was that? Everyone we have encountered on our trip has been nice, but I have to tell you Canadians are REALLY nice, they take it to a new level! 

CN Tower from inside the stadium

CN "Walkers"lean out from outside the rail

Close up of hotel rooms looking out at game at Rogers Centre

Hotel rooms surround the scoreboard

Mariners fans,  Does this guy look familiar?  We saw him get something he
rarely got in Seattle, a double and 2 RBI's

 After the game, we said goodbye to our new friends (Todd gave us his souvenir glass) we walked down to the waterfront and then started looking for the subway. We needed to use the restroom so stumbled across this very nice grocery store that had a bar in it. We had the most amazing stout beer ever, aged in whisky barrels for several years and a peameal bacon slider, a Toronto treat. Too bad we can't get the beer anywhere. We found the subway and rode up toward Chinatown and wandered around. We stumbled upon a television (again in search of a bathroom) and were able to catch the Belmost Stakes. A triple crown for American Pharaoh! 

Chinatown

After Chinatown we strolled through Kensington Market neighborhood which was a very interesting and eclectic place, including many ethnic restaurants and shops. It was busy on Saturday night. Finished our eating with ice cream. Jodi managed to lose our subway ticket, so we are batting 1000 for problems on the subway. I guess it must be us as they really are simple. We loved hearing all the accents everywhere and different languages and cultures in this international city. Home on the subway and a quick walk back. Another fabulous day!