NIAGARA FALLS Day2 Pt.1

Hi agaiiiin!

I'm not going to tell everything that happened on Saturday because that post would be HUGE. So I'll divide it into parts.

Saturday July17th.

7 am. The alarm goes off.
I know I have to wake up, because I won't have enough time otherwise to take a shower, look for something to wear AND be on time for breakfast. And for those who know how I am in the morning (which is: not very fast), know that I need an hour to get all ready to go..

Soo, took a shower, bla bla bla. Went down stair, had breakfast (10 dollars!!! Not normal how expensive it was!!) and we all went to the front of the hotel because Mr. "Folks" said the bus would be there to pick us up.

The bus wasn't there though.

So we had to walk that tiny bit to the Falls IMAX theater. Yes, Niagara Falls has an IMAX theater.

No interesting movies though, except one about the Falls and its history, that we HAD to watch.

About how the Indians discovered the Falls and everything. Not exactly what I think of being: "OOMMGGGG, SO AMAZIIING!"

After that: Maid of the Mist.

What's that?

That's the boat that goes RIGHT in front of both the Falls.. It's pretty cool!

We had to wear these hideous blue ponchos, but without them you would get totally soaked, so I put them on. You know, for fun.. ;) Before we got on the boat (so standing in line, with the blue ponchos on) we took some pictures of the hideous poncho things.

Here's one of me with the Brazilians that went on the trip:

Before I go on, I need to say that I HATE boats. I don't know why. It's like an irrational fear.

I think I saw Titanic too often or something like that... --'

Ok, so we take off. I'm not even thinking about the fact that I'm on a boat and that this boat is going to be passing MEGA close to the Falls. We even saw in the friggin' movie what could go wrong!! So yeah, only when we had left the shore and the boat started wobbling on the water did I actually realize: "Now is the moment for me to be scared..."

You all should be proud of me: I didn't get scared one single moment of that ride!

We're on the water and of course I have chosen the wrong side to stand on. I thought when I got on: let me stand on the side railing because then we'll have a perfect view of the Falls. No. Bad choice. I was standing on the wrong side anyway.. --'

But nevertheless, I got some AWESOME pictures to show you..

As you can see: a lot of people actually chose (or where pushed into, whatever you prefer) the right side of the boat to stand on..

The closer we came to the Falls the wetter and wobblyer (is that even a word? I don't know. If it isn't, I just made it up...) the ride became. It became harder to keep the camera dry, take pictures and try and keep your balance all at the same time.
As you can see: a lot of people actually chose (or where pushed into, whatever you prefer) the right side of the boat to stand on..
The closer we came to the Falls the wetter and wobblyer (is that even a word? I don't know. If it isn't, I just made it up...) the ride became. It became harder to keep the camera dry, take pictures and try and keep your balance all at the same time.

But I still made some uuuhhh great (?) pictures for you guys. One more thing to add to that list of things to do all at the same time: think about the waiting audience back home… --‘

So we finished, got off the boat and into the elevator once again to go up.
Again, I was astounded by the fact that I wasn’t afraid of the height we were reaching with the elevator…
Mae, you can be proud of meee!! ;)
When you get upstairs you have an AMAZING view of the Falls.
Like Postcard-view…
Wait, why am I trying to describe this again? I can SHOW it ;)

See, postcard view… ;)

Hmmm.. What did we do next?? Lemme think…
*goes to pictures and looks what came next*
Ooohh, right, the Power Plant!
Ok, so since we were with a guide and he set up this whole schedule for us to follow we also went to the “Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant”. We even got a TOUR! :O
So we heard about the whole history of the place (that the company who produced electricity a whole while ago collapsed or something and then this dude Robert Moses decided to build a power plant that could function off the Niagara River’s water. And with the use of the water the erosion of the rocks at the Falls would also reduce significantly resulting in the backwards movement of the Falls to decrease a LOT) and then we went outside to see the view…

See the Niagara River with the plant as well? And some road that I thought would make a great picture :)
And after that we took the bus and went to the OUTLET!
We stayed there for a couple of hours, but one thing that definitely drew my attention was the lack of difference in prices with normal stores.
Even with that little remarkable piece of information you should know: I bought brand new ALL STARS.
You people all know how obsessed I am with All Stars, right?
Well for the people that don’t know it, I am.. :)
They’re grey so they fit with everything and they’re the little boots…
When we saw practically every store in the Outlet (and after having gone multiple times to all the sunglass stores in vain, because I didn’t find my Ray Bans there) we went to get a snack. A pretzel with some good-old fashioned strawberry lemonade… It was good. Even if the service was a little crap, because there were these three girls (all three with tongue piercings with which they were playing with THE WHOLE TIME! That’s how I know they even had the piercings in the first place, I didn’t actually LOOK into their mouths.. haha) talking about something insignificant and they were taking AGES to get stuff done.. No wonder the line was so huge.. –-‘
After being at the bus on time and having to wait for some Asian girl who was late we got the bus back to the hotel.
When I looked around at the amount of bags people had I noticed everyone had at least one bag (me included of course). Some people even had so many bags they had to almost JUGGLE all the bags with both hands… Can you imagine how many bags those are?! A LOT!

So back at the hotel, we made ourselves ready for our free night in Niagara Falls.
We decided to go eat at the Hard Rock Café…
We didn’t though. You know why?
IT WAS FULL! There were so many people there!
So what we did, there was this restaurant next to the hotel (honestly though, everything in that little town was close to each other.. Even CANADA!) with a special sale thing of ‘ribs’ (just Spareribs you know, we all know them.. For the Portuguese readers: costeleta de porco) and we took two of those for the five of us…
We found out later that the restaurant was actually the hotel’s restaurant, but then with another entrance.. haha
While waiting for the food to come we decided to give our cameras names.
Mine has been named Rosie. (So whenever I start talking about Rosie: it’s not a dog or a new friend, no, it’s my camera)
Giulia’s is Stoli. My suggestion.
And my new All Stars (which I was wearing of course) are named Chuck.
Me Giulia Cazzamali’s babies: Rosie, Stoli and Chuck. Are they sweet or are they sweet? ;)
So, we took a picture of us all at the restaurant, but Chuck’s fotos were better than Rosie’s. Here you go and have Chuck’s.. hehe

After dinner we went to have a look at the Hard Rock but there wasn’t very much to see, so we didn’t stick around for very long…
But long enough to take this picture:

The moment I saw it I thought of you Isabela. I thought: I NEED to take of picture of this, especially for you :)
After that we went to walk around the little street fair/ market that was going on there. But it wasn't excatly interesting, so we didn't stay for long.
We did stay long enough to find one of the Brazilian boys from EF and have him join us in trying to think of something to do...
Then he suggested we go to Canada and we were suddenly all awake (we were all very tired and considering going back to the hotel) and excited to go...

I'm going to leave you with this. As it IS only Part 1.
Next part is going to be about CANADAAA!
So stay tuned... ('Cause I still have to write that part.. hehe)

Miss you alll! Kiissss!
xoxo

PS. Here's a little preview of Canada:

Me & Giulia