Saturday, February 10, 2007
8 February, 2007
We all woke up early and Rich M dropped us off at the Greyhound Bus Depot for our bus to Niagara Falls. It took one and a half hours to get there and we slept the entire way. We arrived to a ghost town, nobody was around, there were no cars on the road and all the restaurants were closed. It was already 10h45 and we had the town to ourselves. We walked along the promenade in the freezing cold and we could just see a mass of white snow, some water flowing in between and a mist hovering above. The Horseshoe falls (Canadian Falls) were spectacular and very interesting to see in their not-so- flowing state. The US Falls (Veil Falls), were almost frozen completely but still had a small patch of water flowing down. The water mass had not only frozen but was thick with chunks/blocks of snow. We were so frozen ourselves after walking along and taking pictures we had to pop into a shop/restaurant to warm up our limbs which we couldn’t feel anymore. Whilst we were warming up we were munching on the padkos/packed snacks that Suzy had so kindly prepared for us (Thanks Suzy). We then continued walking taking some more photos and fooling around in the flurries and we browsed around some tourist shops. We got on the bus back to Toronto and we arrived earlier than we thought so we decided to go to the Hockey Hall of Fame. We are not such big hockey fans but it was quite fun and we played the virtual reality games. We then were on our way to Coby and Robyn (our friends we met in Hawaii) for dinner. That was a real expedition because Richard got the directions a little confused and we got off at the East subway instead of the West one. To cut a long story short, we arrived like frozen icicles with dead flowers after a 30 minute freezing cold walk and a bit of a tiff. We had another really tasty vegetarian meal that they had prepared for us all from scratch (since they knew we really missed home-cooked meals). We played a bit of drums and watched their wedding video and it was a great evening- what an amazing couple!
I guess everyone thinks that we had too much meat in Calgary, ALBERTA.
We all woke up early and Rich M dropped us off at the Greyhound Bus Depot for our bus to Niagara Falls. It took one and a half hours to get there and we slept the entire way. We arrived to a ghost town, nobody was around, there were no cars on the road and all the restaurants were closed. It was already 10h45 and we had the town to ourselves. We walked along the promenade in the freezing cold and we could just see a mass of white snow, some water flowing in between and a mist hovering above. The Horseshoe falls (Canadian Falls) were spectacular and very interesting to see in their not-so- flowing state. The US Falls (Veil Falls), were almost frozen completely but still had a small patch of water flowing down. The water mass had not only frozen but was thick with chunks/blocks of snow. We were so frozen ourselves after walking along and taking pictures we had to pop into a shop/restaurant to warm up our limbs which we couldn’t feel anymore. Whilst we were warming up we were munching on the padkos/packed snacks that Suzy had so kindly prepared for us (Thanks Suzy). We then continued walking taking some more photos and fooling around in the flurries and we browsed around some tourist shops. We got on the bus back to Toronto and we arrived earlier than we thought so we decided to go to the Hockey Hall of Fame. We are not such big hockey fans but it was quite fun and we played the virtual reality games. We then were on our way to Coby and Robyn (our friends we met in Hawaii) for dinner. That was a real expedition because Richard got the directions a little confused and we got off at the East subway instead of the West one. To cut a long story short, we arrived like frozen icicles with dead flowers after a 30 minute freezing cold walk and a bit of a tiff. We had another really tasty vegetarian meal that they had prepared for us all from scratch (since they knew we really missed home-cooked meals). We played a bit of drums and watched their wedding video and it was a great evening- what an amazing couple!
I guess everyone thinks that we had too much meat in Calgary, ALBERTA.
# posted by Heidi & Richard's travels @ 9:53 PM 
