Vancouver

Wednesday i headed out pretty early to catch a tour to Niagara Falls. I was one of 11 people who all fitted into the back of this swish black vanny thing (you know what im like with cars, lol) and off to Niagara we went.

About a 1 1/2 hour drive later we arrived at the falls. I was the only one to take up the discounted ticket to go up the Skylon tower to get a bigger picture of the falls (they really dont know what they were missing out on, the pictures are the proof)!!!

This is the tower (obviously) lol.

And this is the awesome view you get of the Horseshoe Falls (the falls on the Candaian side of the river).

And just as awesome a view of the American (can u guess what side of the river that is on? lol) and Bridal Falls.

The large falls on the left are called the American Falls and the small one by itself on the right is the Bridal Falls. Together all three falls are the Niagara Falls.

After the tour i went on the 'Journey behind the Falls' which is where u take an elevator down and then walk through a tunnel that leads right out so that you can see the falls from behind. Obviously you cant go all the way to touch it because it is fenced off but you get to appreciate how loud and powerful it is by standing behind it. On the same 'journey' you walk out onto a platform and stand right beside the falls. This is where i took this pic from.

After that i took the 'Maid of the Mist' boat ride to get right up close and personal, and talk about mist. It was like u were standing in the shower, they do give u these ponchos to cover yourself but u still get wet. Its really hard to open your eyes to look at the falls because of all the mist that is raining down on your face and it was so windy down there. It was an excellent experience. But because it was so wet i was reluctant to get my camera out (dont think u could have really seen much anyways) so took a photo of another group on the boat for you.

I had a great time on that tour and im so glad i got to do all those things, Niagara is a great place to visit!!!

Earlier this week i went to check out this castle called Casa Loma actually in Toronto. It was a nice walk around and had some interesting stuff in there. Here is a picture of the castle from the tower.

Ok so thats it for now, and probably the last blog for my trip. I might write a relfective piece when i get home but i only have today and half of tomorrow left to experience Canada so im going to go out there and do it!

Hope your all still well,
Love ya Bec

Last weekend we hired a car and drove up to Montreal. Almost made it there before having to stop and bunk the night at a hotel in Brockville (spelt something like that). got going again pretty early to get to Montreal about 11.30. Because we werent sure where we were heading, we took the scenic route over all 3 of Montreals bridges to make our way to the casino. We walked pretty much in and out there, (it has nothing on Melbourne) but at least did buy a better map so we had an idea about where we were going.

Found our way to Old Montreal where they had street performers and we wandered around the small shops hidden there and found some great bargins!

A bit of souviner shopping fun. Dont ask about what was in the background, lol, thats just where i happened to be standing at the time.

After that we searched for a hotel, and quickly realised that one star accomodation should really have been like -60 stars, so we then started looking at 2 stars.

Once settled into our motel and having got a parking fine, we headed out to find somewhere to have tea. Found a great pub/restaurant called les 3 Bassiers (oh yeah, everything was wirtten in French, very little English around anywhere, making it quite difficult to order tea) and we had a great waiter serve us (so tipped him well!!!).

This is our dessert, was really yum.

Baz and I shared 2 pitchers so as u could imagine I was starting to get pretty happy.

After tea we wandered around headed out to a pub which had a nightclub upstairs so we boogied the night away, well a couple of hours anyways but we jus got too hot and sick of being bumped into so back to the hotel we went.

Myself, Barry and Liss at the pub.

Had a great night sleep, got up and organised ouselves for a quick drive around town before it was time to head off again.