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Toronto, Ontario, Canada
I'm not your promised land, I'm not your promised one
We’re starting the 2000 Weekend Trips Slideshow in Toronto, where high atop the world's tallest freestanding structure we seem to be looking towards an especially uninteresting area of downtown Toronto (if you don't count the cool shadow).
Straight down through the glass floor at the CN Tower- if you look really, really hard you can actually see people. Or there might be some dirt specks on my camera lens. Who is to say really?
We are inside the ACC, the Air Canada Centre to see a hockey game and the most memorable thing about it seems to be the seats themselves. For some reason, the section we were in was super, super long, meaning that everytime that someone in the middle needed a beer or to pee, we had to get up and let them in. It felt like we were standing, sitting, standing the entire game, way more than we ever experienced anywhere else. Maybe that’s just what makes the ACC so damn special.
One of my all time favorite spaces. This is BCE Place- a Santiago Calatrava building with a Movenpick Marche restaurant and the Hockey Hall of Fame. I think I want my ashes scattered here.
Inside the Bell Hall at the Hockey Hall of Fame, the venerable Stanley Cup, a proud symbol of victory and all that is right with the world allows itself to be available for all to touch- even misguided locals who don't think Tie Domi is an ass.
A close up of the Stanley Cup, although something seems off with this picture. The lighting and reflections almost make it look like the Stanlet Cup is somewhere else entirely.
And… that’s because it is. This is the concourse of the Continental Airlines Arena where it (along with all of its trophy friends) are visiting to celebrate the 1999-2000 Stanley Cup winning New Jersey Devils on banner raising night.
I had strip seats for all four rounds of the playoffs, but the Devils ended up winning the cup in Dallas (I’m not complaining per se, just pointing out how insane that would be to actually see in person).
And… there it is. I love the Devils, but they’re banners aren’t all that exciting design-wise. I’m probably the only fan in the entire building thinking about that right now.
