Epic East Coast - Day 41

I tried to keep today simple, as I am exhausted and worn down.  In the morning we walked to the White Water Walk - a short path along the gorge beside the Niagara River, with some of the most extreme rapids, just due to the speed of the water.  It was a very hot walk, but it was nice and cool down by the river.

The rapids were very neat and pretty much everyone enjoyed watching them.  When we were done with the rapids, it was lunch time, but we had left all the tourist areas far behind.  Luckily, there was a small local diner a very short walk south and it was perfect for lunch.  Empty, except for locals having coffee, and a regular small town restaurant feel.  The food was also fantastic.

It was then time for another extremely hot walk all the way back to the falls so that we could go to the Hershey store.  Of course everyone wanted to buy something different and no one was very excited when we simply chose a 1 pound chocolate bar for all of us to share.  We returned to the house for the chocolate and for naps, as there are fireworks over the falls on Wednesday nights, so we were going to be out late.

Almost everyone fell asleep and it took some time to get everyone up to go for supper, so we went for a very late supper at the Rainforest Cafe.  The food was good, but pricey, and the kids initially didn't like the decor, but grew to like it as the evening passed.

By the time supper was over it was dark, so we walked down to the falls and waited for them to light up.  After looking at that for a bit, we headed over to a grassy area to wait for the fireworks.  The fireworks were nice, though short and the only real issue was that the smoke from the early fireworks started obscuring half of the later fireworks.  That ends our time in Niagara Falls.  I'm not really sad to leave - we almost got hit by cars a couple of times today - but I'm also nervous about our travel day tomorrow.  Hopefully we'll be in Ottawa tomorrow night.