Niagara Falls

We are all in agreement that today was the best day of the entire trip. After breakfast at the hotel, we bought our Niagara Adventure Pass, which got us into four attractions plus transportation on the people mover bus.

We started with just admiring the awesomeness of the falls. Even with all of the touristy stuff on Clifton Hills, the falls are still all wild and completely amazing.

Our first attraction was the 4D movie. The movie explained the creation of the falls, complete with falling snow, earthquakes, rain, and all. It was a bit scary for the boys, but they still loved it.

Next, we headed way down for the Journey Behind the Falls. We took an elevator down to the bottom and got a look behind the falls...which is actually just peeking out a large hole at a TON of water! We also got to walk out on the viewing platform and see the bottom of the falls.

Then, it was back to the top and a walk to Maid of the Mist. The walk took forever because we kept stopping just to look around.

We finally made it and jumped on a boat to do this:

While watching from above, it seemed the boats weren't at the base all that long. While we were on the deck and getting DRENCHED it seemed like forever! In the interest of saving the new camera, we have no pictures of the time actually at the base.

We finally got to enjoy our picnic after the boat ride. We'd been talking up the market and the picnic, telling the kids that's how James and I ate our way through Europe. Rudy especially was really looking forward to the picnic lunch. We had fresh bread (well, day old by now...), turkey, salami, pepperoni, cheese, cookies, and grapes.

Next, it was on to the people mover for the ride to the White Water Walk. This was amazing in the sheer amount of water rushing through the gorge and the size of the rapids. The pictures just don't even do it justice...

Our last stop in Niagara was the Coke/Hershey store for ice cream floats...

We were supposed to be in State College tonight, but wanted to have the whole day to enjoy Niagara. We rolled out around 4 and headed for a night in Dubois, PA. We had enough time to hit the mall in Dubois to buy our Penn State gear for the game tomorrow and for pizza and a movie in the room before bed.