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And so I come to the final part of our trip. Our place in Chicago was really close to Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs baseball team, so we got super cheap tickets for a midweek afternoon game and had an ace time. We saw some cracking home runs which was very exciting for young Master H, while little Miss just enjoyed being able to clamber all over the seats and generally have a play. That evening we took full advantage of our guests and left them with the kids for the evening while Mr H and I went to the theatre to see my home town namesake... Hamilton! I'd heard that this was THE new show on the block to see, and it really was brilliant. What made it even more special, and I hadn't even realised this when I booked it, was that it was set just outside Boston at the time around the American War of Independence. So here I was, seeing it just weeks after I'd been learning about this precise period in history (see " Heroes are my weakness...

Blue skies, great visibility, and that Friday feeling - without question the best day to head into Toronto city centre and take in the views from the top of the famous CN Tower .  We had this and the aquarium left on our CityPASS , and given the fish are at the bottom of the tower it makes perfect sense to do them both on the same day. And I always love going into cities during the week when they are pulsing with the people who keep them alive - so given we had Friday, Saturday and Sunday left, Friday was the day. Readers of my previous post will not be surprised to learn we chose to drive rather than take public transport, and interestingly city parking doesn't seem too expensive (with a bit of research beforehand) so it seemed like a good idea all round. We drove in mid-morning, parked beside the Rogers Centre stadium, then walked round it using the easiest landmark on the Toronto skyline. What you can't see in this photograph is all the yellow tape round about the bas...