we saw lots of water today. Lots and lots and lots of water. All of it crashing a couple hundred feet to the rocks below. The falls themselves are quite beautiful and gun to watch. Ben said he wished we could open the windows in the hotel room and hear the water at night.
We got an early start. Walked over to the American side first thing this morning, got tickets for the Maid of the Mist boat ride and got on the actual boat without having to wait in line at all. That was pretty great. The boat ride was a ton of fun. When we got off we started to head up the path beside the falls for that beautiful close up view. Along with several hundred other people. It was sloppy and slippery and wet and muddy and stupid crowded. Mike decided to bail, Ben went with him. Alex wanted to press on so I took him to the top amidst all the chaos and we got completely thoroughly soaked and it was great :) In just the 45 minutes it took for us to do the boat ride and take the walk, the lines got crazy long. Instead of 45 minutes that boat ride would have been the only thing we did all day.
We stayed over on the American side for awhile longer, checking out Goat Island (the island between the falls) and getting all the good views of the water we could. Was nice to walk around in a state park, even if it was with thousands of other people, as opposed to the Vegasy nonsense on the Canadian side. We did eventually head back yo Canada. Had to wait for a good 30 minutes or so in line to get through customs.
After lunch we walked down to the Canadian Falls overlook on the Canadian side. It’s pretty fun, you are right there at the edge of the falls. Tried to get tickets for the behind the falls tour but the next available tour wasn’t until 6, a decidedly inconvenient time. So we came back to the room, went for a dip in the pool and gathered ourselves together for an evening out. When everyone got good and bored we went up the Hershey store to waste some time, bought the boys a little chocolate. Then it was on to dinner. We ate st a fairly nice steakhouse. The food was decent. The entertainment was... odd? Somewhere between drinks and dinner our waiter picked up the microphone and started belting out a heartfelt, though badly offkey” rendition of Inxhained Melody while strolling through the restaurant. I’m, ok. Awhile later some female waitress started singing “I will always love you.” She was better than the waiter, but still. It was all just random.
After dinner it was back to the falls to catch the light show. No fireworks tonight, apparently it was too windy. It actually was very windy.
So there we are. That wraps up week 5. I didn’t think we’d make it this far into the trip before some catastrophe struck. Now it seems we will make it to the end, no problem. I’m very sad that we have only one week left. Would like to be doing this indefinitely.
Brown Car got another zero mileage day today. That’s the last rest she’ll have until we’re back in TX. Tomorrow we start week 6.
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