Our neighors to the norph (part 2)

Tired from the ride up, but made new by a shower and a change of clothes, we left our hotel to visit the falls and grab a bite. Crystal took time to dry and straighten her hair before we went out. So she was, lets say more than frustrated, when we got to the falls and the mist attacked her. Lessoned learned, she put her hair up and off we went strolling down the main drag. The main drag consist of beautiful views of the falls, public gardens and tributary streets that lead to more "cheesy" attractions.

When I say "cheesy" I should clarify. If you get tired of marveling in natures creative beauty you can walk about 3 blocks up from the falls and marvel at a wax figure of Ronnie James Dio. We avoided the wax museums, haunted houses (we counted 5) and other waste of time and made our way to a semi outdoor cafe for dinner. The food was decent enough and the 18 year old Canadian drinking age was rather apparent in the loud, but not disorderly guest around us.

Our plan for Saturday was to do "falls things" during the day and hit the casinos at night. So Friday night after we finished dinner we went to scope out the two casinos. Neither of us had ever been to a casino, so we figured some night before the test cramming couldn't hurt. The first casino (Casino Niagara) we went to was like an old folks home with slot machines. Not our scene. We hiked about six blocks over to what the locals called the "new" casino (Fallsview Casino). The Fallsview did a better job of mirroring what I imagined a casino to look like or at least what television has prompted me to expect. We took a few laps around the floor and decided that the young well dressed crowd better suited our style.

Casino preparations completed, we went back down the the main drag to wait on the fireworks that were scheduled for 10pm. The falls were lit by giant spot lights from the Canadian side that constantly changed colors in three minute intervals. I don't know if I was really thirsty, really tired or a combo of the two, but every time they were lit in all red I had a fantasy of a massive Kool-Aid waterfall. The fireworks soon shook me from my sugar water dream world and I snapped as many photos as I could. After the grand finale we found our car and went to the hotel for much needed slumber.

I will wrap up our trip to Canada in my next post and then it is on to new topics.

Pictures are up: here