Ontario Place

Had a wonderful day today.

We got to breakfast bright and early, and I had Eggs Benedict for breakfast which was very nice (it's a silly thing but worth mentioning - this is something they always have in American movies and TV series and I've always wanted to try it). After that we checked out of our hotel and walked couple of blocks to our new hotel WWE had booked for us for two nights. The hotel was Sheraton Centre Toronto and it's probably the biggest and fanciest hotel I've ever stayed at. The weather man was promising rain all day so we just quickly changed into something light (as it was still quite warm) and took a taxi to Ontario Place where our day's entertainment was provided.

Ontario Place is an amusement park, mainly based around different water rides with restaurants and world's first IMAX theather (which we didn't have time to visit, unfortunately). We were there however to see some our favourite WWE superstars as they had a SummerSlam Day there with Q & A sessions with the stars, autograph signings and all sort of wacky and wonderful fun. By the time we got to the park it was starting to be clear that the weather man was totally wrong, and that instead of raining, the clouds just all disappeared. On the good side, the weather was absolutely brilliant, but on the minus side we had left sun tan lotions at the hotel. It didn't seem to be a problem at first - we were having tons of fun and yes, it was warm, but we were loving it.

After the first Q & A and first queues for autographs had passed I started worrying about it a bit - but then again I consider myself to be the tanning type so I wasn't overly worried. After the second Q & A and even more queues Dragon and Chu started looking a bit pink but I still thought I was ok. But after we'd watched the first Cool Hoops challenge we decided to have a break in the shadow and asses the damage - I went to the bathroom and checked on myself only to find that I had a very silly panda look (skin white underneath the sunglasses and all pink on nose and cheeks) and my arms were bright red too. Tanning type, bollocks.

Still - all the queuing was worth it when I got to meet my favourite female wrestler, Victoria. She is one of those very inspiring people who got and still keep me motivated for taking care of my body. She's got this most amazing athletic and yet femine look about her, and I would swap bodies with her in a blink. But she was also a wonderful person - although officially we weren't allowed to take photos she posed for all the fans that asked for it and talked with everyone who came.

But as we're the silly fangirls we are, Chu and I insisted on seeing the second Cool Hoops challenge and Fozzy play live - at this point Dragon wisely headed for the hotel and the gym and we stayed for couple of more hours. After Fozzy we took the taxi back to the hotel and spent some time in the pool with the cool soothing water and then some room service - unfortunately by this time all the damage to our skin was done and we were indeed looking like Lobsters United.

Really, it wouldn't have pissed me off that much if it hadn't been for the fact that we did have sun tanning lotion - we just deliberately chose to leave it in the hotel. Stupid gets what stupid deserves, indeed. Last time we believed the weather man on this trip too.

We also found out the answer to our coverter question. The question was - will the devices work, and the answer was, it depends on the device. My Nokia phone refused to charge - it recognised that it was being charged, and then just said "not charging" as it recognised the wrong current. However, Chu's Siemens phone accepted the wrong current without any problems and charged happily overnight. Both of our chargers said they would only take 230 V current - but it would seem that Nokia has built in some prevention mechanisms, maybe to prevent possible damage although that shouldn't happen on current changes from bigger to smaller. We had kind of assumed/hoped that this wouldn't be a problem - if it was, surely airports would sell voltage converters (was our thought). As Carlos pointed out in the comments, we knew adapter might not be enough but hey - now we know. Good news was the the Ontario Place was really the only place we needed phones when we spent time in different places and needed to find each other again - but my phone running out of battery was the reason I wasn't doing any blogging.