Da' Falls!!!

Talk about beautiful and spectacular! Niagara Falls was amazing! It is so unbelievable to live by so many cool places. We feel so lucky to live so close to so many tourist attractions! This first picture is of Rainbow bridge, its the connection between USA and Canada. On our way to the Falls we decided it would be fun to go over to the Canadian side. So we headed onto Rainbow Bridge, which by the way is bumper to bumper traffic since everybody is required to stop through customs. Just before hitting customs we realize that Garrett only has his new paper license for NY, they took his CA one when he applied for a NY drivers license, which has NO picture. I had my drivers license so I was good, but we had NOTHING for Ciella! At that point there is absolutely NO WAY to turn around. So we head over and explain our situation to the Customs Police and well as you can imagine it doesn't go over so well. We had to pull off into a parking lot and get out of the car and go into the main Customs building, where a police officer asked all kinds of questions but eventually let us through... man those Canadians, what do they think, terrorist would try to come through or something!! Just kidding... im sure they do...!!?? So off to the Falls we were!

This is the Canadian side of the falls, Horse Shoe Falls, it is so gorgeous. It was shocking to see such a large amount of water going over the falls silently, then to have such a huge noise arise from the falls. Its so cool to stand and watch! But scary to think about falling into!

More Horse Shoe Falls
As you can see in the pictures, or if youve ever been, the closer you get to the Falls the more mist there is, obviously!! So thats fun to get a little damp. But we went on an overcast day, so it seemed to me that there was more mist then usual with out the sun evaporating it or because it started to get a little chilly with out the sun! Well slowly the wind started to blow and then before you know it, its pouring down rain!!! So combine mist, A LOT OF MIST, no sun, wind and rain!!! What do you get... VERY WET!!!! This picture is of us upon arriving. Notice how nice and dry we look. Dry hair, dry clothes!

Can you see a difference!! Now notice how wet we look!!! My hair was soaked, as well as my clothes. Yes, we could have spent money on those plastic poncho's they sell there but we about went broke after we had to pay 18 dollars to park!!! What a rip off!!! And with the wind it seemed not worth it, People had to hold them down or they were blowing all over the place! Although we were wet, we had a blast. There were so many other beautiful things. Like these flowers. You can only imagine how well everything grows there with all that moisture!

Last but not least the American Falls! Just as beautiful, not as large!

So then we started to make our way back to our 18 dollar parking spot and decided we better head home. Thinking of course that the USA would let us back in with out any problems! Yeah Right! It was harder to get back in then it was to get out! What, like terrorists try and sneak in or something?! Anyways so we head to the Customs and of course they are sure we have kidnapped Ciella, which wasn't funny! The Officer asked for anything we had with her name on it, like our health insurance card, you know the one I had thrown away in CA since we we wouldn't have insurance in NY at first(we are applying for government health care as we speak). So we had nothing with her name on it! Let me remind you this is all being done in the car, yes we are holding up hundreds of cars behind us in the line! It was embarrassing to say the least! Eventually the guard makes us turn off the car, makes Garrett get out, open the trunk, then step to the side while he searches though it. He search through everything, keep in mind we had just crossed the country in that car, who knows what was in the trunk! All this time he asking Garrett random questions trying to get him to trip himself up in a lie. We had told him the truth, we just moved here, don't know exactly where all our papers are, we forgot what we did have. So he asks Garrett, "well where's your luggage?" Garrett replies."why would we have luggage, we live here..." "Wheres the diaper bag" I just bought a new one that is also doubling as my purse to say the least, he asked to search that too, searching for anything that linked us with a child, all that was in it was a diaper, and her shoes. He asked all sorts of other questions that were too funny. Eventually they came to the conclusion that we had kidnapped Ciella and arrested us! Can you believe it!! No, not really!!! They just told us not to EVER try this again! Like we were "trying" to make it hard for them!! And we went home!!