Day 13- Niagara Falls Canada

Mike and I got started around noon today to go see the Niagara Falls. We started late because we knew it was a short riding day for us, so we got some extra "shut-eye". We arrived in downtown Niagara Falls, ON Canada and rode around for about an hour to find a parking place. There were people all over the place; again, we heard many different accents. It was like a melting pot with so many people from different areas of the world there!

We got our motors parked and began to tour Niagara Falls. The cool thing about the Falls, you can see the American and Canadian side of the falls while standing in Canada! The American Falls were nice but the Canadian Falls formed a horseshoe shape and it was much bigger. I'm not sure if you ever saw Jim Carey's Movie, "Bruce Almighty", where he played a news reporter and he was out at Niagara Falls aboard a ship known as the Maid of the Mist. We got some pictures of the Maid of the Mist as she took her passengers close to the Canadian Falls and back by the American Falls.

After we viewed the Falls, we walked up the main tourist attraction strip with everything kind of store, restaurant, video arcade, museum, etc. you could think of. It was much like Myrtle Beach or any big tourist city. The weather was nice and beautiful and the people were nice as well!

Canada is a beautiful country with alot of similarities to the US. I especially liked driving on their interstate hwys because they measure distance in Kilometers and fuel in Liters. So it took about an hour for me to get my conversions together! Mike said he enjoyed Canada and definitely wouldn't mind going back for a nice long vacation!

We boarded our motors and headed for the Rainbow Bridge back into the US. We sat in traffic for what seemed like an hour but it was only 30mins. As we approached Customs, we issued them our passports and driver's license and we were asked our purpose in Canada. We told them we were there to see the Falls and just passing through heading home now. The Customs agent gave us our documents back and told us to have a safe trip. We then headed into Buffalo NY and made our way across the top half of NY. Our destination for the evening was Albany, we made it to Albany and bedded down for the night. Tomorrow we see FDR's museum and Kennedy's museum then off to Philadelphia.

P.S.
There are more pics (Day 5) uploaded on the Kodak Site late last night. Use the same link to the site that I gave you to see the previous pics. If you don't remember it, it is listed below. We have another short day and I will try to get the rest of the pics on this evening, I'm trying!

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