Niagara Falls Getaway

Alvar and I were able to get away for a couple days this past weekend. Thursday morning we packed up the kids, hopped in the van (yes, hopped...I think we were all pretty excited about the weekend!) and made our way first to Fergus to drop off the kids at Alvar's parents house. The kids were quite excited to spend 2 whole nights with Oma and Opa - away from the regular routines of home. From there Alvar and I left for Niagara Falls. We had booked a 2-night package online that was pretty much all inclusive - hotel, meals, snacks and entertainment too. We made it to the Howard Johnson Hotel in good time - and were happy to be able to have some away time with each other again!

Our very nice hotel suite

Mmm...well, the view wasn't that great - but oh well - the room itself made up for that!

Dinner the first night was at the Keg - over looking the Falls - we were even able to get some window seats - perfect view of everything!

View of the Falls from our dinner seats

Breakfast - I didn't actually get a shot of the Denny's Restaurant from the outside, so a sugar packet from our table is going to have to be "proof" enough!

Wow - that looks really good! But, unfortunately it was a tad early for dessert - although very tempting....we opted for eggs, sausage, pancakes and toast instead :)

Part of our package deal was the Fun Pass - we got to do all the things on the pass - kept us busy enough for the days we were there!

The Skywheel - really neat - but VERY high up! As much as I enjoyed the ride over all (and would even recommend it) - I was pretty nervous at the top - I'm not a huge fan of heights - and this kind of ride just confirms that all the more in my mind!

Alvar enjoying the Skywheel

Yup, even me enjoying it, after the first full loop anyway ;)

View of Niagara Falls from the Skywheel

And also the American Falls too

This was in the Ripley's Believe it or Not Museum - lots of very interesting facts etc - you definitely walk out of there wondering about a lot of the displays in this museum!

My turn in the big comfy chair

Never fails - always a rainbow in site at Niagara Falls!

A couple stopped us on our walk past the falls and asked us to take their picture for them - then they did the same for us!

Although no ice build up on the railings by the falls - the bottom of the gorge had no shortage of snow and ice - just a little build up here at the bottom of the American Falls

See, I told you the Skywheel was high up!!

What a lotta water!!

Enjoying the rainbow again

It's Johnny!!! Or, I mean Jack Sparrow...we got to meet a bunch of interesting movie characters at the Movie Land Museum - some of them were not so well done...but others, like this one was pretty good (at least we thought so!)

And here's Orlando - or Will Turner

One of Alvar's favourites here...Gandolf - Gollum is in the back there and of course Frodo Baggins too (who in my opinion had a little too much red lipstick on!)

Chocolates anyone?

And the most famous of all...yup, that middle guy there...the one with the scour on his face - gotta watch out for that one... ;)