We only spent 1 night in Rochester but felt like we explored the main things in Palmyra. We loved our experience there and were really happy that we could also pop over to Canada to view Niagara falls. Another stamp in the passport :-)
It only took about 1 1/2 hours to drive from Rochester to Niagara and it was a beautiful sunny day. We almost didn't need our coats, except when you're close to the waterfall it got a little chilly.
From researching our trip we knew we wouldn't be able to do a Maid of the Mist tour on the river due to the weather. Though we weren't expecting to see it on the bank like this...
When you're really close it gets quite misty and therefore hard to get decent shots...at least with our ordinary camera :-)
The pic below is looking out towards the New York side of the falls.
Will had a lot of fun just walking around and taking everything in. He was a big hit when we had lunch in a restaurant overlooking the falls. The waitresses were all gushing over how cute he was. Can't really blame them though!
Even though we couldn't get right in the action it was still an incredible sight to behold. I had read a lot about viewing Niagara and remember something that said from the Canadian side you see the best views of the falls but the US side you "feel" the falls. I think this summed it up well. The Canadian side was definitely the most spectacular to view but when we crossed back over the border and went along the viewing platform etc you could really feel the power of the falls.
We had been trying to teach Will how to look through the viewfinder since we came across them in LA an NYC. He finally started getting the gist of it.
After a good amount of exploring it was time to head to Buffalo for our flight to Washington DC. We almost had a major delay but were very lucky that the airline were able to find a replacement pilot (the original one got really sick apparently).
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