Blogs from Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, North America - page 4

Geo: 43.1066, -79.0642VACATION!!!The day started with our early morning flight from St. Petersburg to Buffalo, NY.It is no secret that I don't particularly care for the getting there part of the trip. However, sometimes it's the little things in life that make you smile during an anxious time. A lonely grape, seemingly out of nowhere, rolled to a stop next to my seat as we cruised at over 400 miles an hour at 37,000 feet. I considered picking it up, but left it as a token distraction. She walked by and it was gone, leaving only the juicy remains of grape trail down the aisle. Curious, I cocked my head looking the length of the plane and low and behold, my little friend was attached to the bottom of the flight attendants shoe only to be ... read more

Day 2: NIAGRA FALLS! Slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch.... If you the know the Stooges you know the reference. Latitude 43.08, Longitude -79.08, 59 degrees, cloudy and rainy all day. Breakfast and then the Maid of the Mist. Luc became personal photographer for some guy on the boat-must of had him take about twenty pics at various backdrops. I had to tell him to stop so he wouldn't miss it. This family then quickly became a nemesis to many on the boat and those climbing to the look out. However, we moved on and no one wen with me to the Cave of the Winds. The falls were surprisingly not cold as they bathed me completely despite the poncho. I was able to spot Tracey and the boys 90 feet above me. ... read more

Niagara Falls is one of those places that if you spend to much time here you will run out of things to do fast. I live here and every time my friends come to visit we basically do the same things. Today was the first nice day in almost a week I needed to get out didn't want to spend money cause I'm saving for my next trip and I realized I hadn't really just been a tourist the way I like to do things which is avoid the tourist traps and really see this new place for what it is ... So I set out on a walk taking pictures of the things I feel I have past a million times and never truly looked at. I had an amazing time I decided about half ... read more

So I'm somewhere I have never been before, not literally, but hopefully soon that will be true as well.I have two vacations planned though neither are what people would consider normal vacations, one is more of a dream job, the other more like another journey of self discovery as my mother would call it. I have applied for the WOODS Canada dream job that pays two strangers to take the Trans Canada Trail from coast to coast recording there journey and testing out Woods equipment. The other is my own version of adventure. I am planning of heading south to visit the southern USA , taking a bus from Niagara Falls ON to Kentucky then hitch hiking the rest of the way with only a few pre-determined destinations but basically just seeing where there wind ... read more

My apologies to all for the delay in posting this entry, the retelling of events has proved to be very upsetting to Nicole. Between the nightmares and the therapy sessions, it's been a long week. The medications seem to be working and I feel comfortable enough to leave her on her own for a few minutes while I continue to document my findings. If the thought of catching a brief nap had entered the tired minds of either Crystal or Nicole, those thoughts were quickly dismissed as Penny had other plans for them. Stripped of the their shoes and their dignity, Penny hands out the hats and aprons while declaring it "time to make the donuts" and sends them off to the kitchen to prepare the desserts for the evening's festivities. The whole family would be ... read more