Phew, what a day. Up at 6:15am, quick showers and packing and rushing off to the airport to drop off the beast (the car!) and get checked in.
At the airport, we finished off anything not able to be taken on the plane; this consisted of 3 litres of water, a beer, and Rolo cheesecake. I had half of the cheesecake and a litre of water and promptly felt rather ill (it was 8:30am!) but that didn’t last long luckily!
The plane was much smaller than the last one, 3 seats, then aisle, then 3. Rosie and I sat by the window and then someone on the end. The plane was actually a lot nicer than the long flight! With screens in every headrest with ondemand tv, movies, music etc. so that kept me nice and entertained; an episode of The Simpsons and then I watched “21”, which I’d fancied seeing but never got round to it, so I was nice and entertained. So much so that when I was rudely interrupted with 20 minutes to go with an announcement “We are now starting our descent to Toronto” I was quite surprised! Unfortunately I didn’t have any water to drink so my ears gave me hell, and I actually missed the last 15 minutes of the film so I have no idea how it ended. D’oh.
At the airport, we picked up our car which we have for a day to drive to Niagara and back in; after queuing for about 12 hours (slight exeggeration perhaps) we picked up a rather nice black Chrysler 300 which was very familiar just not nearly as big! The journey to Niagara was a 120km drive, bit of traffic at first but pretty quick in the end.
As we approached the hotel we saw down the hill to the falls; pretty amazing, after checking in we wandered straight down towards the falls in search of food (I hadn’t eaten since the cheesecake, eugh) and the spray and the water going everywhere is amazing. It’s very humid and hot though!
We walked up towards the tourist area of the town, and my god! It’s like a mini Vegas. Flashing lights, huge noise, people everywhere! It’s crazy. We tried to go to the Hard Rock Cafe and unfortunately there was an hour wait, so we gave up with that (this was at 9pm!) and settled for a nice little italian place, which had pretty good food.
Back at the hotel and a very late sleep; it’s 0:40 local time, but of course feels like 10:40 so not very tired!