Niagara Falls

Hello from Niagara Falls!

Jon and I slept in today till 11am. That was much needed. We walked to Niagara Falls. There were 2 falls: one was the Canadian “horseshoe” falls and the other was the American one “Bridal Veil” falls. We went on Maid of the Mist and Journey behind the Falls. Maid of the Mist was very nice. The boat went near the falls so we got a very good view of the horseshoe. The Journey behind the falls sounded better than it actually was. We went down 38m into a tunnel where we saw the falls rushing down. However, you really couldn’t see much. There was an observational deck which allowed us to see the side of the falls. That was nice but it was a disappointment. We walked to the top of the falls and saw where the water rushed down. That was very cool!

Afterwards, we walked to Wendy’s to get a chocolate frosty. Jon has been talking about it for a while so we finally got it. It was okay.

Jon wanted to do the “Laser Maze”. Think of a spy trying to get to the treasure by dodging laser beams. That’s what it is except only 2 minutes and 15 seconds long. It sounds cool but it probably isn’t that good especially since the person who worked there said that laser tag was better. Jon didn’t do it at the end.

We then walked around Clifton Hill which is the main street where tourists go. We had dinner at Pizza Pizza. We ordered a medium Canadian pizza. We learned that in addition to HST (13% tax), Niagara falls has an additional tourist tax of 3% so in total, it’s 16%. Sad. It’s too expensive here.

Jon and I returned from seeing the falls at night. It was lit with different colours. Jon and I thought that there would be fireworks but there wasn’t. Instead, Jon was enjoying his camera. He took really cool pictures. One of them, he told me to hold his cell phone and make words/shapes with it. It turned out pretty good. It’s 11pm right now so we’ll have to shower and go to sleep as soon as possible.

We’ll be seeing two of our high school friends tomorrow in Waterloo!! Have a wonderful night everyone!