Maid of the Mist

September 10, 2006
We had a lazy morning sleeping in until 8am, then worked our way over to Maid of the Mist. This is a boat ride up into Horseshoe Curve, the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. First we went out on to the deck high above the water and above the falls. Then we rode down the elevator about 300 feet to the level of the water. Here we got our blue ponchos and waited to board our boat with all the other tourists mostly from somewhere away. Our captain was a happy smiling gentleman who brought us past the American Falls and right up into the roiling waters of the Canadian Horseshoe. The mist was blowing off away from us and we could look up into it and up beyond to the water falling in great profusion over the edge far above. What a magnificent experience!

We spent the rest of the day in the park. Will made us hotdogs, we let family know we were heading into Canada and would not be using our cell phone at $.69 cents a minute, and Kathy got into doing some cleaning.

We drove across into Canada at about 4:30pm. We paid the bridge toll with money we had saved from our last trip north about four years ago when the exchange was $1.50ish. Today is about even.
Lots of traffic on the roads; we did the interstate, Qew, some of the way to Kichener, birthplace of our Roatrek.. We soon pulled off on the frontage road that had way less traffic. Pulling off the highway also provided us an opportunity to put our feet in Lake Ontario.

Drove right through downtown Hamilton, a big city! Kathy navigated and Will drove us right through. We continued through the countryside and small communities, towns and cities to Kitchener.