While everyone was sleeping, I woke up early to take my car
into the Downtown Hyundai dealership. This was the one and only day that I knew
that we would not need the car for anything. Not many probably know this, but
we misplaced my car keys the night before the wedding, and still had not been
able to find them. I am pretty sure that they got tossed in the garbage. So, a
couple weeks before heading to Canada I reached out to a dealership in Toronto
closest to the hotel. The Friday before we left NKY I got a call from PG, the
parts manager, saying that he had received a key fob and he is pretty sure it
would work with my car. He said he even called Hyundai Canada to make sure. I
was so appreciative of all his work, and I was extremely hopeful that it was
the right one and that it could be programmed to my car. In my discussion with
PG he informed me that the look of the part had changed a bit, as my car was
now 5 years old. You know, technology and style change. He was very optimistic that it would work.
A week or so after the wedding I was able to get a key cut
here in Kentucky from my other original key, so I at least had a second key.
The key fob I still had was the one that should have been replaced a long time
ago because the chipboard had went in it, but I refused to pay $300 a couple
years ago to do that when I had the other one. You might be wondering why I
couldn’t just do it here in the States, well that is because the car was bought
in Canada and weirdly enough the parts weren’t the same or something like that.
Which is interesting because the key number was the same, so why could they not
find the key fob? I think they just didn’t want to do the work to confirm the
part numbers I had from the Edmonton dealership.
Anyways, I dropped the car off and said that if the
programming did work, I would like to have a second fob programmed. I was
dropped off at the hotel by the shuttle, and at this time the guys were all up
and almost ready to head down for breakfast. We went down and grabbed breakfast
and made a plan for our day by looking at the City Pass options, the bus lines,
train, etc.
Our first stop was the train to get a pass for the day. Kyle's first time on a transit train.
We
made our way up to Casa Loma. What a fantastic tourist site. Casa Loma is a
castle and gardens in Toronto, that is a museum and a special landmark. There
is a lot of history to Casa Loma, I suggest you read up on it, or if you get a chance
to go see the castle, it is a must! It is also part of the City Pass, which is
a fantastic deal and great way to see Toronto. Many movies have been filmed
here, and we saw a bride and groom having their pictures taken there.
After a few hours at Casa Loma, we caught the train to our
next stop – Royal Ontario Museum. We spent way more time then I would have
liked to here, but there was a lot neat things here. I just had wanted to go to
hockey hall of fame and I knew that wasn’t going to happen. We ended up
spending almost 4 hours in the museum. I did get to see one of five million
dollar coins that the Royal Canadian Mint has made. It was neat to hear about
it when we went to The Mint in Ottawa.
We went for something to eat, and then headed over to the
CN Tower. After the CN Tower, we met up with my cousins, Katie and Sarah, at
Ripley’s Aquarium. It was so great getting to see them. They had come to our
wedding, along with their parents, but before that, I had not seen them in
close to 15 years. We had a great time exploring the aquarium, and then went to
grab a late night snack at Amsterdam Brew House.
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