Sept 25th-Niagara Falls, NY

Well, Elsie didn't like her day because she had to stay in the rig, but we had a great time. We did a lot of the Niagara tourist activities today, and didn't finish. Started with the Maid of the Mist...which is a boat that takes you right up near the falls and gets you all wet. They give you a blue raincoat to wear but it's so windy that it doesn't really help much. After the ride we climbed up the long wooden staircases on each side of the falls to get up really close and got SOAKED. Our tennis shoes were squishing all afternoon and Gene's jeans never did dry out! The water really roars over. All the water from 4 great lakes flows through here and over either American (10%) or Horseshoe (90%) Falls on the Canadian side. It continues on to Lake Ontario and then to the St. Lawrence Seaway and on to the Atlantic. Both falls are most impressive because of the enormous amount of water that is going over. Both Snoqualmie and Multnomah Falls are higher and more beautiful, but you should see the rapids coming down around Goat Island before they head over. We wandered the island a bit too. No swimming for Elsie here!