It was truly a wonderful experience. We wandered down to the IMAX theatre to see the Mysteries of the Great Lakes film. 'Twas ok. Not entirely what we expected... but it was interesting. It just happened to be more about sturgen (spelling is way off I know) than anything else. But, what did keep us entertained was the IMAX sound system:
We went back to the main building where we had the amazingly priced meal the first day, to have lunch. As soon as we sat down with our lunch, the sky opened up and suddenly, we were under the Falls....sort of. Lucky for us, we were already inside, seated. Others were not so fortunate. =) We waited around the building for a few hours waiting for it to stop raining. Eventually we were able to meander back up to Dan's car at the hostel and head on our way.
On our way to our Couch Surfing host... Mackenzie... we stopped a few places. We stopped at a winery and sampled some local wine. We stopped at an orchard shop and got some AMAZING dried fruit, and pound cake (now, I mention that I enjoy end pieces, and the lady throws in another piece for free). We went almost across the street to a park area by the Niagara River to enjoy our dried fruit, before another threatening shower scared us away.
We arrived in St. Catharine's to our host's apartment. The apartment is absolutely amazing... as is our host. She has traveled extensively and lived in Korea for a year teaching English. Now she goes to school for Wine making. We went out and got a pizza, had pizza, wine and pickles... and then played Rummy for a bit on her wooden back patio/balcony/fire escape thing. SUPER fun plans for tomorrow!!!!! =)
That picture of the falls in the rain is kind of how I remember seeing it when I visited as a child. It probably wasn't raining quite that hard - but definitely very grey, and very wet!
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