Animals and the Yankees and lots and lots of water!

I apologize for not having anything written on here Tuesday night. Thanks to traffic we didn't get home from the game until 11:30 and yesterday we had a very very long day! So anyway, Tuesday was my birthday! Yay for me. We started the day out eating some Johnny Horton which is a donut shop up here. It's pretty amazing and actually cheap, not like the donuts in Kansas and Oklahoma! Next we headed off to the Toronto Zoo! What an amazing and VERY large place. They had many spectacular animals and exhibits to look at, including Sting Rays and Sharks that you could pet, and the brand new polar bear tundra exhibit. But the poor things looked so hot! It was very humid out today, with all the storms moving in and made the long walk with jeans on a little miserable. We made it through most of the zoo before the storms hit, which was very lucky since they hit with a fury. And of course we were at the bottom the the bear exhibit hill when it started raining. We should have known that when the zoo is warning you that you must walk back up this hill to get out of the zoo, we should have been worried. That hill was amazing huge that we had to walk up!!!! So we get to the top of the hill and the real rain begins! We were soaked by the time we made it out of the zoo and of course as soon as we got to the exit the rain stopped. That is just our luck! So we ate our lunch while we were driving back to the hotel and we warmed up, and rested some before we headed out to the Yankees/Blue Jays game. While we were sitting in the room and massive thunderstorm hit and even knocked out power for a second while Tana was in the shower. We expected her to scream, but she survived and didn't even make a sound. LOL... So then it came time for the game. The sun had come back out and the storms moved on, and we headed into downtown. The traffic was a mess and so was trying to find a parking spot, especially with parking being so expensive, I think we ended up paying $25, but we were fairly close to the stadium. There were all sorts of people around, tons of places to buy dirty water hot dogs, buy scalped tickets and anything else you could think of. Once we made it into the stadium we decided to walk around and scope the place out, we quickly learned that all the hot Canadian boys apparently hang out at the baseball stadium during the hockey off season. So we walked around and found some hot dogs (you can't go to a baseball game without one) and then headed off to our seats. Our seats were awesome, they were on the third base side and 15 rows off the field. We were surrounded by Yankees fans (which was okay with me), but let me tell you, these Blue Jays fans do not like the Yankees. HaHa. Poor Tana ended up sitting next to me and got hit every time that Derek Jeter stepped out onto the field. It was an awesome game though. The Yankees ended up winning 5-3, with three home runs (all by Yankees players), Teixeira, Damon and Matsui all hit home runs and the fans did not like it when Damon hit his! And of course they hated it when Jeter made a couple of amazing plays. But all in the all the game was a blast, the roof was closed due to the rain so it was a little warm in the dome! But it happens. The stadium is actually dug into the ground, so at our seats we were actually like 7 stories below ground. A little surreal actually. So anyway after the game I went in search of a program because I hadn't gotten one yet, and of course they were all sold out, so by the time we got outside it was of course pouring down rain again. So we were yet again soaked for a drive home. But we made it safe and fell asleep quickly, the week is catching up to us and we sure are getting tired. We have decided that we are going to need a vacation after our holiday! :)