Up early and off we went! On our way to Canada!! Left a bit after 7am and crossed our fingers not to hit too much traffic! After we drove up into New York a ways we stopped at Corning’s Museum of Glass. We decided not to do the actual museum tour but wandering the gift shop was a real treat! Amazed to look at all the handmade glass projects. The price tags were large enough to knock your socks off!! (Some prices a couple thousand dollars! Gulp!). The kids also each made a necklace pendant that will be sent directly to our home. Neither of them wanted to blow their own glass, they preferred to play with melting glass and fire, lol.
After our exploration of glass we drove on to Watkins’s Glen. This was a hike with canyons built in that now had rushing water and waterfalls. We walked the entire trail, some strenuous... as we climbed narrow rock steps, walked under the falling water, across old bridges, and on thin passes as others came the opposite direction! We got some really cool memories out of this visit! Bob also said it brought back memories to when he and his parents came here 30+ years ago!
We climbed back in the car and finished our journey to Canada. We went over the ‘rainbow bridge’ to enter Canada and through customs - which ended up being super easy! (Just a side note - the rainbow bridge really isn’t rainbow painted, lol.). We had to wait maybe 8 mins until our turn in customs. After looking at our passports and asking 3 questions about: did we bring in Fresh Food? Guns? Drugs? the lady sent us on our way. Easy peasy!
We found our hotel with minimal problem, just one wrong turn, lol. Checked in and we were good to go and explore! We went into the ‘downtown’ for food, lol. We found the Niagara Brewery for supper - what Bob had researched and wanted to eat at. Not a very big selection of food... the kids and I got chicken fingers and Bob got a large Caesar salad and 10 wings. Best quality from my perspective was the peach beer. We sampled all their beers on tap and the peach one was definitely my favorite. Food was average but we did have a view of the falls! We were also kinda surprised at how pricey it was, but only get to try things once when you are in a foreign country!
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