The Seabaugh Family Blog: Day 5

On Saturday morning, we ventrued outside the city via the subway to see Casa Loma. It was definitely worth figuring out the rail system to see such a beautiful castle. Sir Henry and Lady Mary Pellatt began building Casa Loma in 1911. Unfortunately, the Pellatts lost their beautiful home because of debt in a little over 10 years. Today, Casa Loma is a beautiful tourist attraction atop a hill overlooking Toronto. In addition to self-guided tours, weddings - we saw one about to take place! - and symphony events also are held at the beautiful gardens and grounds.

Don't ask me how to pay your subway fare. But do ask me our subway fare story. (I don't want to publish it online for the world to read. LOL)

Located just outside the city, Casa Loma was a very short walk up a large hill from the subway station. Please note the beautiful sky. We were so fortunate to have such beautiful weather for our entire trip.

Lady Pellatt's sitting room

Other side of Lady's sitting room

Just imagine this is your hallway overlooking the main floor of your home. Goodness.

Round Room - called such because of its shape, of course. Even the doors were curved. Pretty nifty!

Passageway and stairs to the tower! Eek!

There was a second staircase above this one. I made it up this one, but I couldn't bring myself to climb to the very top level.

Smoking Room - the Pellatt's spent much time entertaining guests in this room.

My fave room was the library (of course).

One should always whip a book out of one's purse and read when in a library. (Little Mercies by Heather Gudenkauf. It's good. Check it out. From your library.)

Conservatory

Funny story - we heard a man say, "This place is like being in the movie Clue. Colonel Mustard, in the study, with the candlestick." Ha! So very true!

Family crests for Sir Henry and Lady Mary were separated and joined together - see picture below - on the ceiling of the library.

The Billiard Room...which we like to call the Man Cave. That's not a telephone! That's a self-guided audio tour. It was, in a word, FANTASTIC. We learned lots, and did not feel as though we missed anything at Casa Loma. Our only boo-boo was not going through the tour in numerical order, but it still worked great.