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Toronto is not only the largest city in Canada (remember Canada? It's the other country, besides Mexico, that borders on the US. There are no current plans to build a fence of any kind between us, though.). It also has two of the major newspapers in the country, the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail.

This past week, the Globe and Mail ran an article that featured some of our registered couples. (As an aside, we always check with couples before we release any information to them to the media. We do not give out information on either couples or guests to anyone without permission.) Canadians are the second largest nationality who use the Honeymoon Registry at TheBigDay.com.

We lived in Waterloo, Canada, for several years when first married and have a daughter with dual citizenship to show for it! At the time, the University of Waterloo was one of the leading computer schools in the world. That was in the days of huge mainframe computers, and Waterloo had a great showcase of its computing power - a room full of machines (bright red, if I remember correctly) several stories high and visible from a couple of floors up through large windows that looked down on all that power. My current laptop would probably be a pretty good match for what was there at the time. Rumor has it that Microsoft still recruits very heavily from their graduates.

Toronto is a great city to visit. Located on Lake Ontario, it is a business and cultural hub. Dominating the skyline is the CN Tower from which you can get a panoramic view of the city and the lake. It's a clean, safe city with lots to do. Among the attractions are a ride up the CN Tower, a visit to the Ontario Science Centre, taking in a night of theatre, skating in front of city hall (in the winter), shopping in the downtown area or checking out the architecture in the city.

If you're a sports fan, Toronto is home to the Maple Leafs (somehow, it's not the Maple Leaves), if you like hockey - and if you're in Canada and don't like hockey you might not want to mention that - and also the Hockey Hall of Fame. Should you be visiting in warmer times than hockey season, you could take in a Blue Jays baseball game.

You can also rent a car for the day and take a quick ride down to Niagra Falls and take a ride on the Maid of the Mist and stop in Niagra on the Lake on the way back for dinner.

About an hour out of Toronto is St. Jacob's, which hosts a large farmer's market where you are likely to find Mennonites who still drive horses and buggies, like the Amish in Pennsylvania. If you are interested in some more exotic means of travel than this, you might look into the hot air ballon rides in the area!

We're always surprised to find that one publication or another has mentioned us. This week you'll find us at Brides.com where we are listed TheBigDay as one of the top 50 places to register!

The company I work for is TheBigDay.com - it's hard to believe that after the .com bust, I actually joined a .com. The company began as a honeymoon registry - a place where couples could list the expenses they might incur for honeymoon travel - and has morphed into The Big Day Travel, a full service travel agency. We still have the registry and those who are interested are able to use either service separately or the two together.

We have also moved beyond helping just honeymooners! The registry itself has been used for numerous anniversaries, birthdays, at least one retirement, and a graduation. We've booked travel to too many destinations to list here, although the majority of trips are to the South Pacific, Hawaii (Hawaii specials), Mexico or the Caribbean (Caribbean Honeymoon). Because we partner with travel agents with different specialties we are able to match travelers with agents who have "been there, done that."