The first half of my second Toronto day was taken up by the Royal Ontario Museum. This is a huge museum that covers just about every time period there is, showcasing artifacts from Precambrian fossils to 1700s porcelain and pretty much everything in between. Here's just a smattering of it...

A year before this trip I ventured all the way from my then-home in San Antonio, Texas to the Owl's Head ski resort in Québec to do a Spartan Super. Then the next day I pulled a volunteer shift so I could get a free race later. At the time I had assumed that my free race credit would work for any Spartan Race, but it turns out it was only valid in eastern Canada! So, of course, I had no choice but to cross the border yet again.

Looking back on this increasingly distant trip, I can see I could've planned it better. Usually I don't get too detailed in making plans for trips, rather I'll just research what I want to see, make a list, and try to knock out as much as I can in no particular order. But I don't recall doing even that for my three days in Montréal; I just drove in after the Spartan and thought "OK, I'm here, now what?" This is probably why there isn't much else to read about here besides Olympic Stadium-area attractions and downtown bar hopping. What I did see was definitely worth it, though, and I think the last day was the most worthwhile.

By this point, the two-day Spartan adventure at Owl's Head was finally done, and now I had three days of sightseeing in the city of Montréal ahead of me.