~Niagara Falls~

Niagara Falls is known as the as the "Honeymoon Capital of the World." Over 50,000 Niagara Honeymooners arrange their honeymoon there a year. Now don’t think that just because you are single or have a family of six, that you can’t go and visit Niagara Falls. I just suggest that everyone at least once in their life goes to Niagara Falls and stares in awe of its grandeur.

My family went to Niagara Falls, but we were on the Canada side of the Falls. My dad’s best friend in high school, they were always getting into some sort of trouble, lives in Ontario, Canada. He and his wife suggested that we come up and visit when my dad had time off work. The only time my dad had any time off work was just around Christmas, so Christmas of 1998 my parents loaded us up and we drove to Ontario, Canada. I was so excited, I always thought that leaving the United States would be so wonderful and that I would meet a girl that was just like me, but only she would have a cool accent. The whole drive up I was trying to picture this girl and I confusing our parents and becoming best friends forever.

We arrived at my dad’s old friend’s house and to my disappointment, he and his wife didn’t have a daughter that looked like me, they didn’t even have kids. I was very much disappointed, but because they didn’t have children, they spoiled us rotten. My parents hadn’t gotten us very many presents because we weren’t home for Christmas and the trip was a sort of vacation so we didn’t have room for presents anyhow. I was kind of upset about not getting any presents, but when we got settled in and I saw that there were presents under the Christmas tree that had my name on it I completely flipped out. I got just about everything that I had put on my Christmas list.

For New Years Eve, my parent’s anniversary, the couple we were staying with took us kids to Niagara Falls to ring in the New Year and to see the falls all decorated for Christmas. It was absolutely breath taking; I couldn’t believe how gorgeous the falls were. I wanted to take it all in and never forget a single moment there. The falls were more magnificent than any picture could show and the sheer noise of them was exhilarating. I wish I could go back once a year, I had so much fun.

They had to drag me out and strap me in the car quickly otherwise I don’t think I would have left. When we met up with our parents later that week, I told them all about the falls and how we should stop by there again on the way home. Unfortunately, they were out of the way for us and my parents knew better than to take me back especially since leaving without me not crying would impossible. Going to Niagara Falls is still on my list of things to do, hopefully its sooner than later.