{"id":215,"date":"2007-06-02T16:52:55","date_gmt":"2007-06-02T21:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sikander.org\/journal\/?p=215"},"modified":"2007-06-09T16:56:24","modified_gmt":"2007-06-09T21:56:24","slug":"niagara-falls-with-the-in-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/2007\/06\/niagara-falls-with-the-in-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara Falls with the in-laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks before her parents arrived, lunato made a schedule for how we&#8217;ll spend each weekend while they&#8217;re here in Toronto. Today we visited <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=Niagara-On-The-Lake,+ON&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=43.25533,-79.072123&amp;spn=0.052759,0.132608&amp;z=14&amp;iwloc=addr&amp;om=1\">Niagara-On-The-Lake<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;q=Niagara+Falls,+ON&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=43.102362,-79.064655&amp;spn=0.052892,0.132608&amp;z=14&amp;om=1\">Niagara Falls<\/a>. Her parents visited Canada sometime in 1992 so this was not the first time for them to see the Falls. However, they were on a package tour at the time so they didn&#8217;t get to spend a lot of time exploring the area. Today, on the other hand, we spent almost the entire day in Niagara and the short trip was pretty enjoyable. I was contemplating whether I should take them to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sikander.org\/journal\/?p=175\">Screamers<\/a> but lunato rejected the idea. She wants to go to Screamers with <a href=\"http:\/\/ameblo.jp\/tanzania-night\">Alidhooh<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harii.net\/\">Harry<\/a> when they visit us in Toronto from the 13th to 17th of June. She&#8217;s made a detailed plan for each day for them as well. Phewh, it&#8217;s going to be a very busy June of 2007!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_01.jpg\" title=\"MacFarland Park in Niagara-On-The-Lake\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_01.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_02.jpg\" title=\"Across the Niagara River is United States. I was wondering how hard it must be to control the border\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_02.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_03.jpg\" title=\"Niagara River opens into Lake Ontario.\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_03.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_04.jpg\" title=\"Lake Ontario from Niagara-On-The-Lake\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_04.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_05.jpg\" title=\"Lunato\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_05.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_06.jpg\" title=\"Sikander\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_06.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_07.jpg\" title=\"Another view of the Niagara River while on the way to Niagara Falls\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_07.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_08.jpg\" title=\"A huge ferris wheel on Clifton Hill road in Niagara Falls. I want to go on it someday\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_08.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_09.jpg\" title=\"I don't know what kind of tree this was but the scent was most excellent\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_09.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_10.jpg\" title=\"American Niagara Falls\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_10.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_11.jpg\" title=\"Oooh rainbow!\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_11.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_12.jpg\" title=\"Canadian Niagara Falls.. or Horseshoe Falls\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_12.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_13.jpg\" title=\"Awesome rainbow\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_13.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_14.jpg\" title=\"Lunato with her parents looking at the rainbow\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_14.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_15.jpg\" title=\"Where did this rock come from?\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_15.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_16.jpg\" title=\"I love this view. You can walk right up to the edge of the falls\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_16.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_17.jpg\" title=\"O Canada!\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_17.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_18.jpg\" title=\"Observation Tower at Niagara Falls. First time going in\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_18.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_19.jpg\" title=\"Very nice view from up here. That is the Rainbow bridge connecting USA and Canada\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_19.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_20.jpg\" title=\"American Falls from the Observation Tower\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_20.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_21.jpg\" title=\"CAnadian Falls from the Observation Tower\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_21.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_22.jpg\" title=\"I was amazed at how big the Casino building is. From street level it seems as if the building is only the tower itself without that gigantic base\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_22.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_23.jpg\" title=\"Run! Hide! T-Rex is attacking\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_23.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_24.jpg\" title=\"We found a path leading from the Observation Tower to the Falls\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_24.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_25.jpg\" title=\"This light is actually fixed on to the tree with the wires embedded inside the tree trunk. Sad\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_25.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_26.jpg\" title=\"The path led to a small garden in front of the Falls\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_26.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_27.jpg\" title=\"Lunato standing in front of some flowers\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_27.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_28.jpg\" title=\"What kind of flowers are these?\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_28.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_29.jpg\" title=\"I can only recognize Roses\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_29.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_30.jpg\" title=\"I can also recognize Ferns!\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_30.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_31.jpg\" title=\"Another rose... lol @ me taking nature shots\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_31.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_32.jpg\" title=\"What an odd looking tree. It sort of fell on itself\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_32.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_33.jpg\" title=\"The lights turned on around 9:10 PM\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_33.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/niagarafalls_june2007_34.jpg\" title=\"The view at night is a must-see. It's well worth the wait\" rel=\"lightbox[NFJ07]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sikander.org\/images\/2007\/niagara\/thumb_niagarafalls_june2007_34.jpg?w=580\" alt=\"Niagara Falls\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-2613138515789998396&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">Rainbow in front of the Niagara Falls<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=5289946770727730417&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">Maid-Of-The-Mist struggling in the Niagara waters<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-1213794178671904217&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\">View from the elevator of the Observation Tower as we go down to the ground floor<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks before her parents arrived, lunato made a schedule for how we&#8217;ll spend each weekend while they&#8217;re here in Toronto. Today we visited Niagara-On-The-Lake and Niagara Falls. Her parents visited Canada sometime in 1992 so this was not the first time for them to see the Falls. However, they were on a package [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-27","category-niagarafalls"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XQq-3t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}