The next morning we walked into the city centre and looked at the Eton Centre before heading back to the hotel and getting our gear, we had planned to go up the CN Tower but the weather was not the best so decided to leave that.
We drove north and went to the Bass Pro Shop, it was huge, you could buy anything from a fish hook to the boat, and also lots of hunting gear.
From there we headed over to Kitchener and to a city of Guelph and stayed with Ian King and his family, Ian is on an exchange from Palmerston North. It was nice to talk to people that sounded like us so a good night was had by all.
In the Morning we sat around a talked until about 11am and then headed off for Niagara on the Lake, a nice little town where the Niagara river enters lake Ontario. We stopped for lunch here and walked the shops before following the Niagara river up to the falls.
We drove passed the falls and decided to go to the information centre to find somewhere to stay, and got a room in the Ramada Hotel overlooking the falls for $88 so we figured that was good. We headed for the hotel and them walked down to the falls and spent the rest of the afternoon and well into the evening looking at the falls and then waiting for the lights to come on. What an amazing sight the falls were, as the the rest of Niagara it was a bit tacky with touristy things to do.
The next morning we carried on following the river all the way to lake Erie and then crossed into America.
Here was where the fun started we got onto the highway and discovered it was a toll road, so we tried to figure out a way of avoiding this but managed to get lost instead, so we got onto the road and carried on to Syracuse, but ended up driving to Water town for the night but not before stopping at Waterloo, which is the place to shop, well that's what we had heard, but we found it no cheaper than Canada.
The stay in Water town was alright the place we stayed was cheap and not take nice but most places were booked up because of a large group of troupes coming home.
The next day we again looked in some shops and even a pet store just to see if you really can buy snakes? Well yes you can, Also found another hunting shop and looked in that, Americans and their guns!!!!
From Water town we drove to where the St Lawrence starts and drove along it looking at the small communities along the shores, some of them reminded me of the small beach communities at home. We stopped for lunch in a small town called Clayton and discovered that most things close over the winter. We then carried on to Alexandria Bay and looked across at Boldt Castle, Something to do in the summer we figured.
After that we carried on to Ogdensburg where we crossed the St Lawrence and headed back home.. Wonder which lake we can go to next time?
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