Post-Graduation Road Trip

Road Trip

Day 1 (05/15/10):

Boston, MA à Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

The day started early for me so that I could go and have breakfast with mum and dad at the hotel – My last ride on the T, I think I'm actually going to miss it. L Just as a note, the Hilton Financial District in Boston has a fabulous breakfast offering. Probably expensive though. We went to the waterfront to rent the car, and while dad took care of the paperwork, mum and I wandered around. Did anyone know that there's a Waterfront walk by the harbor? Anyway. We had the car to my apartment and packed by 10:30 (dad's original goal was to be out by 12, so we did really well) and we were on our way. We passed over the state line into New York around lunch time and had lunch at a Cracker Barrel near Albany. The special part about Cracker Barrel for us is that we don't have any in CA, so it's a really nice treat. We then drove towards Buffalo and across the border into Canada (Niagara) and got to the hotel kinda late and walked down the street looking for somewhere to eat. The 'city' around Niagara was a lot like Las Vegas, pretty campy with lots of cheesy attractions, though we found a fairly nice Italian restaurant to eat at. Back to the hotel there were a lot of young Canadians making lots of noise and obviously planning on drinking a lot. They had accents that reminded me of Kirsten's jokes and made me realize that they were based in fact!!!

Summary of the day - Breakfast in Boston, Lunch in New York, Dinner in Canada.

Bed now – more later.

Day 2 (05/16/10):

Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada à Flint, MI

Absolutely gorgeous day! I couldn't tell you what the temperature was, everything was in metric which I fail at converting to Imperial. It was something like 10*C in the morning and reached a high of 18*C. You do the math! We walked to the falls from the hotel and they are AMAZING. The Canadians have created this gorgeous park that goes along the river with flowers, trees, grass, attractive garden 'sculptures' and benches, etc. There should be some pictures somewhere and I'll try to upload them when I get home. We decided to go on the 'Journey behind the Falls' which wasn't quite what I expected, so I was a little disappointed by that. It made me wish we had opted to go on the maid of the mists instead. We walked around to try and get several different views of the falls from different areas in the city before heading to the car and starting our journey in search of Ice wine, which is SO tasty and quite expensive. Our next stop was the town of Niagara by the Lake for lunch and a brief wander. Looking out at the lake I realized how much like an ocean it looks from the shore. I now have a new understanding of the title "the great lakes." After our sojourn in Niagara by the Lake we headed to the border into Michigan, with a stop at a Canadian McDonalds for coffee (dad), an Aero Mint McFlurry (me), and tea (mum). That McFlurry was so tasty, by the way. Sadly, we did not pick up any Smarties or get the Smarties McFlurry. Oh Well. We were hoping to get to Lansing tonight, but after our slightly late start, we only got as far as Flint, MI. Joe Turbessi's reaction to our staying in Flint was something like –'why?'

Summary of the day - Niagara Falls is awesome.