When you are on a long trip and moving around from place to place, you have a lot of travel days, which today was. We packed up, left Penn Yan and drove back to Syracuse. I dropped everyone off at the train station and then drove back to the airport to return the truck. A short cab ride took me back to the train station, where we grabbed subs, ate and then sat down and waited for our train. It was forty minutes late, arriving at 1:30pm.
The conductors on this train (Toronto <-> New York) are not the best conductors we've encountered. He did get us some seats together in a family section at the end of one car, but everyone else that got on he sent to another car and they then wandered the length of the train before they found seats. Quite different from the conductors in Kissimmee assigning seats to everyone on the platform.
We arrived in Niagara Falls, NY just after 4:00, where we sat for almost 40 minutes while the train changed engines and crew - it switches to Canadian VIA conductors for the Canadian part of the trip. Then it was a quick trip across the bridge, where we drug all of our stuff off the train for customs. Luckily, Canadian customs is in the Niagara Falls, ON train station, so once we were done, we could just walk out. Everyone else had to reboard the train. (Coming the other direction, they had us leave our luggage on the train. They also stopped in a "no man's zone" between the two stations, as even the people going to Niagara Falls, NY had to get back on the train.)
We walked down to the house we rented, as it was under a 30 minute walk and arrived at a very nice, newly renovated character home a block north of the tourist area of town. The kids fell in love with the attic room and disappeared up there until we drug them out to walk to a nearby Shopper's for some breakfast supplies.
With that out of the way, we walked across the QEW and stopped for a very late supper at Planet Hollywood. Then it was bed time. Tomorrow we'll take the kids out to see the falls and figure out someway out of this city, as our VIA tickets to Ottawa included tickets on the GO Transit bus to Burlington and GO train to Toronto, but some Googling has shown that those are very busy, often late and regular commuter buses / trains - not conducive to families of six with all of their luggage.
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Are you staying in Montreal for quite awhile? We are confused as to where you are going an staying. Dad thought you were staying in northern New York longer. Sounds like things are going well now that you are out of Florida and back in Canada!!
No, the plan was always to be in NY for just the weekend. If Jules was available we would be in Boston now instead of Niagara Falls. From here we are hitting Ottawa and Quebec City, with a short afternoon in Montreal.
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