more pix from 7-29-08

Kawena checking out Niagara River on the White Water Walk
such a peaceful river... LOL

this is the view from our journey behind the falls... .this is horseshoe falls.... we got soaked, and we loved it! This was the best part of the day. By the way, this water is freezing! The white on the left of the picture is the mist... you get that and also some of the water on the right makes its way onto the platform you are standing on.

This is how close the Maid of the Mist gets to the falls....

Kawena was smart and put on both rain coats.... the one from "journey" was really not enough to keep you even remotely dry.... I took this picture through the blue rain coat because it was too wet to take out the camera.
standing behind horseshoe falls.... Bill said they used to let you go up to that window, but people got sucked out from the force of the falls.... I prefer this vantage point myself!
the girls Kawena met from Quebec.... .they went through the fun house about 10 times together

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Kawena getting "suited" up for Maid of the Mist boat ride..... this was all we could see as we approached horseshoe falls.... just a sheet of white water...... you get pretty close, but the force of the falls actually pushes you back...standing on the ship you can feel the engine fighting against the force of the water to stay in one place.
pretty close to the american falls --obviously not the falls people chose to go over...
the butterfly conservatory..... Kawena's little friend...
rainbow over the falls....

tourists in Niagara Falls....

Tuesday, (7-29-08)-- our tourist day…. we did the Maid of the Mist, Journey under the Falls, White Water Walk, and the Butterfly Conservatory…. ok.. .maid of the mist is a boat ride as close as the falls will let you get—before the force of the water pushes you back… that was awesome…. then we went to the white water walk…. a board walk along the Niagara River…. very beautiful… next to the Butterflies…. . Since we saw the butterflies in DC, I’m kinda over this, but Kawena wants to stay forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I drag her out of there after an hour and a half and we head back to the Journey under t he falls…. this is AMAZING!!!! Beats the boat tour!!!! You get soaked….. You walk right next to Horseshoe Falls…. you get beat to heck with the mist and water! then you walk tunnels behind the falls and watch the water come down….. just AMAZING!! Beats everything we’ve seen so far…… Then we went to the funhouse….. Kawena met a few girls from Montreal and ran around the funhouse for a while with them….. One of the girl’s aunts was talking to me about the Hockey Hall of Fame and mentioned her cousin-Ricky Martin is there…… played for Boston? or buffalo? don’t remember now….. cool, will check that out. Exchanged emails, and then we headed for dinner (again at 10 PM)—Ruby Tuesdays ….. then back to the hotel…. tomorrow we head to the Hockey hall of fame with Bill.

(hopefully tmw I'm in a hotel with wifi... i'll add pix and more blog then... who knows, maybe i will catch up the week after i get home!! LOL

the catch up!

Unfortunately we have not had internet since we got to Canada last Sunday.... so, here's what has happened.... if i forgot something... sorry.

this is where the GPS just freaked out.... it doesn't have Canadian maps, so it just showed us floating in the water... a bit disconcerting.....


Sunday…..(7-27-08) arrived in Canada…. our hotel is right in the center of tourist heaven or hell, depends on how you look at it! On the plus, we don’t need the car!
Less than ten minute walk to the falls….. today we just walked down and checked things out…..we got airbrush tattoos and went into a maze…. Kawena’s dream! I think it took her 15 minutes to figure it out… then she was helping others through… we spent an hour in there… it was probably a 20 minute maze for the lost people (would've taken me 3 days by myself) …..
We had dinner at Boston Pizza…. not that either of us had pizza though…. went back to the room around 10 and passed out!

a view of the american falls


American Falls


horse shoe falls in Canada


Kawena getting her "tattoo"



looking at the american falls with the horseshoe falls in back


the maze




Monday(7-28-08)—Bill’s parents picked us up around 12…. before that we went to Tim Horton’s for breakfast…. unfortunately I got 2 calls from the insurance company while we were on line to order and we missed the breakfast menu…. anyway, they took us all around Niagara….. old print shops, the aero cars, wineries, orchards, the power plants, the bridges, the restaurant their 50th anniversary will be at…… great trip! When we got home, we took a nap because it was raining and we couldn’t go out anyway! Then we went to dinner at Rain Forest Cafe, then to Guinness Book of World Records and down to the falls to see them lit up…. pretty!

hydro plant at Niagara



Joan & Roger St Amour (Bill's mum & dad) way up top!


the "thing" we found in the grass... Kawena said it was a caterpillar, Bill's
mum said slug... his dad touched it (we thought it was plastic) I said gross!


in front of the flower clock-Niagara Parks

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the tiniest church ever!!!

the falls at night