This one is for Mike (and Levon)

Mike is right - I forgot to mention Niagara.

So, on our way home, the three of us decided to make a short stop at Niagara. Mike had to catch a plan in Buffalo at 2:45 so we had to make it quick. First we had a parking issue - you see, the boys had spent all their loonies and toonies (no, not cartoons - canadian money) because they figured they couldn't do anything with the funny money in the states. As we pulled into the first lot we realized that between the three of us, we had almost nothing. Well, I had about 2.50 in quarters and mike had a loonie and a toonie and lev had two dollars... or something like that. Parking was 10. So we went to another spot - some bird thing (like an aviary) and when we told the guy it'd only be for ten minutes, he seemed to shrug us off "Ya, i've heard that before!" - well, apparently we won him over because he let us park for $5 (instead of 10). Then we made a mad dash over to a little lookout/view point thing. We took a few quick pictures - stared in awe - took a few more pictures - then the boys ran back to get the car while I waited (ya I'm lazy - so what?). Soon we were on our way.

By the way - those darn people at the border... scare me. "Where were you? When did you go?" (they ask everything twice - and rephrase it - to try and throw you off). When he asked for the second time if we purchased anything in canada I felt like saying, "some hemorrhoid cream, penis rings and depends.... wanna see?" - i didn't. maybe I should have told him we had bought some alcohol and i could puke it up for him if he cared to see. anyway, they let us through (mike was a little worried - he was almost NOT let back into the US on his first trip on friday....)

And the town by niagara is awful. There was one gas station - full service - one pump (from like 1952 or somethign) - i wish i took a picture. The entire city (it wasn't super tiny) was just falling apart. so sad.

And for those who care... we did get mike to the airport on time.

One last thing - I should mention that if it wasn't for Levon, I wouldn't have even gone on this trip so thanks Lev for making it happen.