Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Honeymoon...

So when panning to come to the Boston area we found out that Niagra Falls conveinantly was right in the middle (8 hours from Indy and 8 hours from Boston).

We arrived on Monday night around 9:30. When checking in they informed us that they over-booked our room type. So to apologize they were bumping us up to a suite. The suite was NASTY (in a good way), I mean NASTY!!!! It was two floors (16th and 17th), 2 full bathrooms with a hot tub...and EACH floor had a GINORMOUS window overlooking the falls. It was a nice place to spend our first night there, the only down fall was that we had to move to one of OUR type rooms the next day.

The next morning we went down stairs to get our new room. We were then informed that we could stay in the suite for an extra $150 a night. It was nice...just not that nice. We get to our regular room (mind you that it's a queen bed with a hot tub and another HUGE window over looking the falls) and open the window to another beautiful view. Afterwards we walked down to the Falls. It is such an unreal place, it doesn't look like it could really be real. It is awe inspiring to watch as the water flows over the side. I think for the 61 hours we were there, I must have watched the falls for a good 16 of it. After gawking at the waterfalls for a while we did a little bit of shopping and then hit one of the casinos. We walked out $30 richer, not a whole lot, but we were there for less than an hour and only played slots. After we got ready at the hotel we headed out to the TOURIST AREA (I'm not kidding, they actually mark it as THE TOURIST AREA) and went to Marvel Adventure City. It was a lame attempt to cash in on the tourists (Imagine what use to be Block Party, half the size and everything has Marvel Comic characters on it), I was such a sheep that night. It would have been cool to go with my neice and nephew, they would have LOVED it.

The next day we did the ADVENTURE PASS.

First on the adventure pass was the JOURNEY BEHIND THE FALLS. You get to go down and be almost parallel with the river, right next to the falls, pretty impressive. Also, they have tunnels that they have dug behind the falls to light it up at night, you get to walk down 2 of these tunnels and see the water rushing in front of you (it's basically a white wall of loud moving water), but it was cool to see.

Second was the MAID OF THE MIST. This is where you get on a boat and you get kind of close to the American Falls before going in the middle of the Horseshoe Falls. You get soaked but it is also something to marvel at.

Third was the WHITE WATER WALK. This part of the pass takes you down the river and brings you back down towards river level to show you how massive the rapids are (they are classified as a Class 6, some of the deadliest in the world). It was really cool.

That evening we went to eat at Wolfgang Puck's restaraunt (really good food for a high reasonable price) as our dress up dinner for the trip. Afterwards we headed back to the casino, only to lose $100 in less than an hour. That's when we called it an evening. I also found that evening Kinder Eggs, which I use to get ALL the time when my family and I lived in Germany.

The next day was just us backing up and heading home. It was a great time and I was glad we did it for the Honeymoon.


1 comment:

mmaier2112 said...

That view from your room is RIDICULOUS!

Looks great. I'm jealous.