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It’s Log, Log, it’s big, it’s heavy, it’s wood.

18th March, 2006 - Posted by karen -

Lisa came over last night and we had supper and watched an episode of The IT Crowd and then the Montreal/Toronto Amazing race episode from way back this summer. Actually I found it quite accurate for the first bit - when they land in Montreal they’re stunned there is no real shuttle/bus to get downtown and have to take a taxi. Well technially if you walk 15 minutes to the Dorval terminus there is a bus, but in a race that wouldn’t do! So then they had to find Square Victoria metro station and find a clue in the underground city. So either the editing took about 90% of the aimless wandering or they were given a really easy location to find, but they didn’t seem to have too much trouble. I’d rate it a 4 out of 10 on the “lost in the underground city” scale. Later they had to go to the Biosphere built by none other than Mr. Geodesic dome, Bucksminsterfuller, himself. Again, cool stuff. They also had to go to the trapezium and swing from a trapeze and be caught by gymnast - well that’s reminiscent of Cirque de Soleil so that’s right on. Ok so you’d expect some kind of exciting Montreal-esque thing to happen next like going to Schartz’s at lunch time, visiting Marché Jean-Talon, going on Mount Royal, or maybe finding a Jazz club or something. Oh no! We’re in Canada now, so bring on the clichés …let’s participate in one of two “popular Canadain sports” - curling and log rolling. The curling was fine (except those poor suckers had to go to the MacDonald campus like me, lucky for them they had a taxi driver) and they actually had a lot of fun with it. But log rolling?? Excuse me?? One of the families chose this instead of curling and I have to say they looked miserable. Their last task was to look for clues in the olympic stadium - there were threee clue boxes attached to any of the seats. They were there for hours and again, were completely miserable.

They flew to Toronto and went up the CN tower, went yachting and to the Bata Shoe Museum. “Gee we had a great time yachting in Toronto, it was sooo much better than that log rolling we had to do in Montreal!”. With that publicity, its amazing anyone would ever want to come here!