With the exception of a meal in a plane, flying at an altitude of 10 km or more, today we consumed a wonderful dinner at the highest elevation.
Jan and I sat at a table for two, right by the windows in the revolving restaurant of the CN Tower.
The tower reaches a height of 553.33 meters and the restaurant is at the 330 meter level.
The dinner was very good, but the view was extraordinary. The restaurant revolves around its axis in 72 minutes, so in little over an hour you have Toronto spread out below you. Seen from this level, even the tallest skyscrapers look puny by comparison, but the Lake still looks mighty big.
The tower was completed in 1976 and I remember watching the helicopter, as it brought the last antenna and deftly lowered it, so it could be bolted into place.
For 34 years it was the world's tallest freestanding building, when in 2010 taller structures were erected in Dubai and other Arab Nations. The CN tower is, to this day, the tallest building in the western hemisphere.
Since I did not design or build it, I have no reason to be proud of it, but I am pleased that it stands in Toronto as a symbol of our City.
Jan was impressed and so was
Bertstravels
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