Well...Kat has been great about writing the blog and keeping people up to date and writing things out so our failing memories have a back up in place but it seems like I should take a couple of swings at the plate or in this case, Kat's computer.
We were up by 8:00 and in the kitchen by 9:00 where Anna was cooking up a storm for us, nothing fancy but everything was tasty and abundant. One thing that was very cool was that she served us homemade cookies with recipes from her native land Croatia. The cookies were very close to the cookies my grandmother used to bake, recipes from her native Ukraine. It was truly a treat for my memories as well as my taste buds.
We enjoyed some down time on the porch and then headed out to the city in search of roadside attractions. We stopped for lunch at Baselli's which looked like a down home restaurant filled with comfort food and grease. Well, turns out they were heavy on the grease but not so much with the comfort food. Oh well, most times we score but there is the occasion where alka seltzer is a must for dessert.
We then took a 25 mile ride out to Niagara on the lake. This was a great way to see some interesting stuff and keep things mellow. We drove down a road where we are in Canada but separated from the U.S. by 400 feet and one very deep gorge. The scenery was beautiful, the homes we passed spectacular and you couldn't swing a dead cat without hitting a vineyard or winery. We enjoyed the ride and stopped at the village of Niagara on the Lake which reminded me of Sisters without the western theme. Their theme was cutesy, cutesy and expensive, leave us your wallet and your net worth. We did give in to the peer pressure and sprang for two ice cream cones which I do have to say were delicious.
Coming back into town, we found a cell phone store and got a SIM card for Kat's phone to deal with the isolation of being a foreigner in a foreign land. Makes me wonder how I ever learned how to put on my pants before all this new technology. A light dinner from Tim Horton's, (Canada's answer to Denny's....except T.H. makes better food)
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| Crowds looking at the falls from the Canadian side |
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| Budhist Monks visiting the falls |
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| Is there someone in those boots? |
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| Dam on the Niagara River |
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| Making electricity for Canada |
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| Lake Ontario |
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| Flowers in Niagara on the Lake |
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| They have a big George Bernard Shaw festival......hence his statue in the center of town |
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| Seats next to the ice cream store |
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| Cenotaph in memorium of World War 1 dead |
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| More of Lake Ontario |
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| The Niagara River runs from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario |
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| Needless to say we stopped and bought some cherries. |
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