This year Jan Remko joined me and because we both hadn't been in Canada before we decided to start things off with a all-day tour to the famous Niagara Falls.
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Partner Conference 2004 was held in Toronto, Canada. This year Jan Remko joined me and because we both hadn't been in Canada before we decided to start things off with a all-day tour to the famous Niagara Falls. |
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 We decided to start off with a helicopter tour above the falls. You can clearly see the bridge between America and Canada and the mist around both falls |
 The Canadian horseshoe falls. Good for 2550m3 of water ... per second! If you look very closely you can see the "Maid of the Mist" sailing towards the falls |
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 Jan Remko, leaving the helicopter |
 The lower Niagara River with the whirlpool, rapids and "Aero Car" |
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 The American falls (the large waterfall) and Bridal Veil falls (the very small waterfall on the right). Only 10% of all the river water flows over these falls |
 This is me, well prepared to board the "Maid of the Mist". What looks like an unfinished bridge is in fact the only way to view the falls from American territory |
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 The American falls up close |
 The Canadian horseshoe falls as seen from above |
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 The Dutch Microsoft welcome reception was held in the CN tower (left). The CN tower is the world's tallest building (553m). The pod at 342m has a dare-to-walk-on-air glass floor (above). Next to the tower is the SkyDome (left & below). The Renaissance hotel where we stayed is conveniently build against one side of the SkyDome |
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 Spectacular view from the CN Tower. The bottom-right to upper-left diagonal is Young Street: the longest street of the World. It runs from the harbor in Toronto to Rainy River in Ontario and has a length of 1900 kilometers! |
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 All Dutch Microsoft partners were invited on a boat trip... |
 ...to view the skyline of Toronto from Lake Ontario |
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 The closing session in the Air Canada centre where... |
 ...Steve Ballmer is thanking us all Microsoft partners for their commitment |
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 View from our hotel bar: the SkyDome floor is changed to prepare for... |
 ...the Microsoft Partner Celebration! (the transformation took over 20 hours) |
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 This is me climbing a wall while... |
 ...the Toronto Raptors are warming up the crowd |
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 Pat (love-is-a-battlefield) Benatar |
 Neil Giraldo |
 Fireworks in the SkyDome with the roof closed! |
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