we had a blast in terranah!
had to stay a bit outside of the city (northeast, i think), due to huge aids convention eating up all city hotel rooms.........so i got my taste of toronto traffic driving to the city almost every day - very much like chicago's.
our one day off from going to the city took us to the paramount amusement park north of town. i found my kids were too small to really enjoy any of the rides, so we went to the water park & had a great afternoon.
a day spent at some hippie-ish market part of town was cool, the name escapes me now (kensington mkt, maybe?)
highlight by far (pun intended) was the lantern fest at ontario place. i recommend it highly
www.chineselanternfestival.ca/e/home.html
thanks again for the input!