Saturday afternoon we left Palmyra and headed towards Kirtland. Since we were so close, we decided to take a side trip to Niagara Falls. It was well worth the detour. It being Memorial Day weekend, you can imagine the hordes of people that were there, but despite that, we got lucky and found a close parking space that was a quick 10 minute walk to the falls. We got in line and got our tickets to Maid of the Mist so we could get up close and personal with the falls. They even gave us amazingly flattering blue ponchos! The falls were pretty spectacular. You can just feel the power that they generate. When I was in high school we all went to pick up my brother from his mission in Brazil and we visited
Iguazu Falls. Those falls were awesome and probably larger, but we didn't get to take a boat right up to them to see them first hand.
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| Me in my blue poncho |
We then ventured across the boarder to the Canadian side. Luckily we all brought our passports. You can see the Horseshoe Falls the best from the Canadian side, so we walked across the bridge to that side, took a picture, and walked back. Interesting tid bit - While it costs nothing to leave the US and go over to Canada, it costs .50 cents to leave Canada and come back into the U.S. Not sure which country is charging, whether it's Canada charging people to leave, or the U.S. charging people to enter - either way I was out .50 cents.
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| View from the USA (Left) - Canada (Right) boarder crossing |
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| Boys in the USA and Girls in the Canada |
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