Skyscrapers and Soybeans Fieldtrip: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

This weekend, I was lucky enough to travel to Toronto to visit one of my best friends, Lindsay, and her mom Marg. In the past few years, I have been to the Toronto area several times and have experienced many of the interesting sights the city has to offer. In my opinion, Toronto has a similar feel to Chicago...it's on a lake (Ontario for those wondering), it's of a similar size and population, and it's a very international city with many diverse neighborhoods. I think that Toronto would make a great weekend getaway for anyone in the Midwest. It's approximately a seven hour drive from the Chicagoland area (my time may be off...I am comparing this to my dear husband, driving like a bat out of hell, from the South burbs of Chicago - our current record it 6h30m) or a 1 hour flight. If you make an extended long weekend of your Toronto adventure, you can even head to Niagara Falls, which is only 1.5 hours from the city.

Listed below are some of my favorite things I have done in Toronto: