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Sunday morning we got up to an empty house at the Weidts, they left at oh dark thirty for their trip to the Bahamas.  From Akron, we headed off to Niagara Falls.   

We spent all our site seeing time in Niagara Falls on the Canadian side.  This was the first time the kids have been to this country, now making 3 their total (with building houses for the poor in Mexico)

There is hardly a better way to experience the Falls then to do the Maid of the Mist boat tour.  These tours have been going on forever and for good reason.  Looking down at the falls from a distance is much different the "feeling" the power of all that water up close at the base.  The height of the drop increases from that vantage point also.

There is a spot along the sidewalk that you end up just a few feet from the edge of the Horseshoe Falls.  I found this to be an amazing spot where trillions of gallons of water just drops away in to a mist.  Living in the desert of San Diego and the southwest where there is virtually no running water, you can really appreciate this water flow.  You think, 5 minutes of this amount of water would fill every reservoir and end any drought problems.

We hung around all day and into the night to see the Falls lit up. 

The Horseshoe Falls has so much mist rising all the time that the colored lights hardly penatrate.

Later yet they put on a fireworks display over the falls every night. 

For our stay in Niagara, we stayed at a KOA on the Canadian side.  It had the best access to the falls area and is a clean well run campground.  This was our first "campground" experience with the new camper.  I guess there are going to be a lot of "firsts" for us this trip.

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