We left Monday for a business trip to Cleveland. It's not my business trip, so I am having a fun, relaxing time visiting sites around the area. Cleveland is a long, 12 hour drive from Vermont, so to break it up a bit, we decided to detour over to the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, since we have never been there. The "big city" is pretty overwhelming when you haven't been accustomed to it in a long while. The traffic crossing the border was heavy, and the commercialism of Niagara Falls is ridiculous. But the site of the falls is beautiful, and the weather both the afternoon we got there, and the following morning was perfect. We stayed in a Hilton Hotel so we could have a really nice view of the falls from our room, plus Champlain College would be paying part of the bill, so it was worth the splurge. Here are a few photos:
Here I am looking over the American Falls.
This is the Canadian Falls, which is just up from the American Falls.
Closer view of the American Falls from our room.
The sun rising over the American Falls. View from our room.
It was a great stop, and I'm really glad I was able to visit it, but it's probably not something I would go back and do again. But I guess, for just about any major tourist attraction, you have to put up with the crowds and traps that generate the money needed to keep the area functioning.
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