Niagara Falls - New York

Jim had an appointment with one of his distributors in Buffalo, New York set for the morning of June 21st.   I decided to tag along on this trip so that we could do a little sightseeing after his meeting was over. Even though we live in California, this area of the country holds a special place in my heart as I was born in upstate New York and lived there until the age of 15 when my family moved to California. Much of the purpose of this trip was to revisit some of my old stomping grounds.

We had the afternoon free to explore, so we headed straight to Niagara Falls. We had been here together in the late 90’s, but enjoyed it this time just as much as we did back then. We parked the car on the US side and spent some time at the viewing spots along the water before walking across the bridge to the Canadian side. In our opinion, the best view of the falls is from Canada!  We did lots of walking and picture taking before boarding the Hornblower cruise (just like the Maid of the Mist tour on the US side) which takes you up close and personal with the falls. It’s amazing how cool, wet, and windy it gets as you get close to the falls - it’s a good thing we were wearing rain ponchos! 

The bridge we walked across to get from the US to Canada

On the Hornblower cruise

After dinner, we made our way back to our car on the US side and headed to our hotel. Tomorrow we head to Oswego, New York - my hometown.