Falls and Foreign Places

Saturday 4 June - After picking Ian up at Manchester airport and driving to Victor New York the previous day, Ian and I wanted to visit nearby Niagra falls before attending Mat and Jenny's wedding in the evening. We made the drive easily and started exploring the falls. I was amazed by how many seagulls were there, living on the edge of the falls. There were lots of baby seagulls on the cliff as well and we watched them for awhile. We got absolutely soaked looking at the American falls in the cave of the winds, despite the complimentary yellow ponchos. It started to rain as we left the cave of the winds and there was soon a thunderstorm upon us. We didn't let it dampen our spirits though and we saw some nice views of the falls before making our way to the maid of the mist. The boat got us very close to the falls and it was near impossible to see anything with all the falling water, we were unable to tell to distinguish between the rain and the spray from the falls. Wet and cold we trudged across the bridge and into Canada. It was my first visit to canada which was exciting, but no new stamps in the passport. We wandered around the canadian side briefly, getting a new view of the falls and appreciating the lovely gardens before crossing the bridge again and heading back to the car. We drove back to the hotel and dried off before the wedding.