Travels with Rob #5: Toronto, Day One- Royal Ontario Museum

Last year, I went to Toronto on a business trip. It was my first time to Ontario since my trip to Pittsburgh in 2009, when I had an overnight layover in Toronto on my way to and from Pittsburgh. This time, however, I was here for work, I was going to the CBC headquarters to pitch some television shows to the executives.

This shot above was from somewhere over Ontario, between Lake Superior and Toronto. I slept most of the flight from Calgary, Alberta to somewhere over Lake Superior and it only started to clear after the lake as far as cloud cover that morning.

My host met me at the gate with this minion, in case you were wondering why I have included it. I left it with his daughter when I returned to British Columbia.

I was only in town for a couple of days but I tried to get in some of the culture I had long missed when I lived out near here a couple of decades ago now (eep!). I talked my host into taking me to see the Royal Ontario Museum, a place I had never been to before.

They have an extraordinary collection of fossils that I had never seen before and they were exciting to see. I will just show some of them here.

This one was awesome to see. A triceratops!

And of course, T-Rex!

I had a difficult time trying to show the scale of this beast in my photos and finally decided to get a photo of my in front, which was something I also wanted to do.

In a separate section of the museum, I found this painting. Anyone who has taken any Social Studies or history class in school in Canada has seen a copy of this painting in their textbook. I believe it is called the Death of General Wolfe, but I can't remember for sure (I'm embarrassed to admit that seeing as I have both a history degree, I was standing in front of the painting and I have taught Social Studies).

It was The Death of General Wolfe! Ha Ha Ha!!

Anyways, the museum is well worth the visit if you get the chance. You can get lost in there very easily and I mean that in a good way. The dino exhibit is worth the price of admission alone.