A Journey Across the Border

The Northern border that is! Todd and I ventured into Canada today to visit the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. It took us awhile to get there, as the Rainbow Bridge over was closed for some unknown reason and there were no good signs to any of the other bridges. We finally found Whirlpool Bridge only to discover it's only good for Nexus card holders. So we finally found the Peace Bridge, and after clearning Canadian customs with ease we were finally on our way. Now of course by that time, since it took us an hour messing around to find a bridge over, my Extra Large Dunkin Donuts coffee from 2-1/2 hours prior had caught up with me. I tell you the pain I felt having to hold "it" was unbearable. I was practically in tears by the time we gave in and pulled into a Perkins. We first used the restroom, and then had a nice light lunch, before heading off for our real purpose of crossing the boarder...

...First stop was the Butterfly Conservatory! Literally thousands of butterflies all flying around! It was absolutely gorgeous!

They have plates of fruit for some of the butterflies to feed off of!

This is a video of some of the butterflies flying around. If it doesn't show click here.

Todd, posing with the butterflies!

After the conservatory itself we wander around outside in their rose gardens...beautiful!

Then it was off to the falls themselves....

First up...a view of the American Falls....

Next up...a gorgeous view of the Horseshoe Falls...you can even see a Maid of the Mist in this photo at its base.

Posing in front of Horseshoe Falls

After our initial look at the falls, we decided it was time to get up close and personal with the falls...First up...Journey behind the Falls....

Here I am, all ready to head out on the observation deck!

This is a video of what you see when you go on Journey Behind the Falls, It takes you right next to Horshoe Falls! Again, if you can't see the video click here.

Oh, so fashionable in our cheope ponchos...but they did a great job keeping us dry!

After Journey Behind the Falls we headed up to see Niagara's Fury...all about the creation of the falls. it's in "4D"...360 degree movie, with a moving platform and wind and water spraying on you! Pretty neat!

Then it was off to the crazy, yet fun, Clifton Hills district. Todd induldged me in some shopping...I got a cute pink sweatshirt!And then we were off for some glow in the dark mini-golf. while silly it was a lot of fun, and extactly what the doctor ordered!

My nails glowed like crazy things!

Here I am showing off my golf ball, my nails and my glowing seams on the capris!

This is what the holes were kind of like...fun, a florescent!

After mini-golf we wandered around a little bit, finally ending up at the Hard Rock Cafe for dinner. it turned into a more expensive dinner than planned, so we formulated a new plan for desert...skip anything that Hard Rock had to offer and head to the Hershy's store that was just down the block! Todd and I each had 1 chocolate covered strawberry (mmmm....so good!) and 1 cookie. Delicoius way to end our evening!

Here's todd posing in front of the American Falls, just prior to our heading back to the car to head home.

A final shot of the happy couple on a great day!

So you think our story would end there, right? A happy couple, a great day at Niagara Falls...well, returning to the U.S. got interesting...if only for 15 minutes. We got to U. S. customs and after showing our passports and answering the typical questions, we were asked to pull our car to the side. Us, along with 3 other cars were lined up. We were all told to exit our cars and "stand against the fence". Well, they had this truck that took x-reays of our cars! I guess they didn't want to expose us to the x-rays, and whatever else they used to scan the vehicles. But nothing was found and we were all allowed to continue on our way. Still...interesting! I had never been delayed at customs before at all!

It was a long day (made even longer by blogger now...took me an hour to get this all posted with how slow it's runinng!), but a wonderful one. So I am off to bed now...I hope you enjoyed my little photo-diary of our day at Niagara Falls!