Today we got up early and took the bus to Niagara Falls town as today is the day Simon is entering Canada again for his second 12 month working visa. We got to the falls and took a few pictures, nothing as spectacular as the night before because the light was falling the wrong way but amazing all the same.
We then walked over rainbow bridge, which is the bridge over the Niagara river inbetween USA and Canada and entered the Canadian customs hall. Dad got through no problem, but I as ever I got stopped. They wanted to see the paperwork that accompanied my USA working visa (I'm entering Canada!!) even though it had expired the day before and I was returning to the USA on the visa waver program, which is a tourist visa. Well this paperwork was back at the van which was parked at wall mart car park 40 minutes away! Grrrrr so back I walked along the Rainbow bridge with my denied entry slip and went back through USA customs. They couldn't refuse me entry because I technically hadn't left the USA! The boarder patrol lady on the USA side was surprisingly nice to me and couldn't understand the Canadians problem.
So it was back into the USA on my own with Mum, Dad and Simon having a party on the other side!! If we'd have stood opposite each other on each side of the river we could have waved - I was that close! But I'd pretty much seen the USA side of the falls the night before so I decided to get the bus back to the van and get my papers. After all I was only going to have to go back another time to see the better side of the falls once and for all!
This time I got let through no problem and off we went for lunch. Simon had left by this point to get his flight back to Calgary, so it was just mum, dad and I.
After lunch I walked up to the horseshoe falls but the light was flat as the cloud had come in. But the noise was incredible and you can stand almost 6 feet away from the cascading water at the right hand side of the falls!
Walking back down to meet mum and dad, someone shouted in a broad Lancashire accent, Oi, nice shirt!!!
I had my new Rovers shirt on that my Bestie Jen had bought me for my birthday!
Back across the boarder we went into the USA just as it started raining, and into a film about the falls. Did you know that one woman went over the falls in a barrel seeking fame and fortune, survived but didn;t find the fortune she was looking for! And a boy of 7 went over the falls in a life jacket after his boat lost power upstream and survived after getting picked up by the maid of the mist!
It was getting dark when we left Niagara so we did roughly 70 miles to the next camp site by Ontario Lake and parked the beast in the pouring rain, before having omelet for tea as there was no pizza shop on the way and we were in the middle of nowhere...
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