Niagara Falls and The Worst City To Hang Out In (aka) Buffalo

        Hey everyone, Brooke here. Lew and I are sitting in the parking lot of a bar talking about the worst city we have been in so far... Buffalo, NY. Honestly people its like the doldrums here. A planners worst nightmare as Lew put it. But before I tell you how we ended up in a parking lot in a crappy city Ill tell you how my morning started. I woke up around 3:45 to Lew packing up the hotel room telling me that he changed the plans around and we were leaving then to go up and see Niagara Falls at sunrise. We got dressed packed the car and were off by 4:30. Lew drove half of the way claiming that he was still all hopped up on Mt. Dew.

 

    At around six we pulled into the rest stop I grabbed some coffee at a Timmy Hortons and we were off to the falls. Getting there early we avoided the $10 parking fee and the tour busses. The falls were amazing and if anyone were planning to visit them I would highly recommend getting there at sunrise. It was peaceful, the sun over the rapids was wonderful, and the pictures were great without having to wait for other tourists to move out of view. We got to wander around the park and see the little islands and their trails. We were shocked at the amount of spiders there were. Walking around the visitor centers webs hung off the balconies like bunting flags, the webs shining in the sun made it look so beautiful. Lew and I learned a trick early on that if we want both of us in a picture all we have to do is find a couple in the crowd and trade cameras. A bit of judging goes into this as we have to choose which couple looks the most tech savvy. We were surprised to find that iPhones are not as user friendly as we thought.

Afterword I started the long drive to Ohio when while passing Buffalo, Lew asks if I was going to get my buffalo wings. It being 9:30 in the morning I told him that I doubted there would be a place open. From here on the story varies depending on who is telling it but how I remember it is like this: Lew then kept on asking if I wanted the wings, I would keep saying no and after the third Are You Sure? I said yes. We then took the exit for Buffalo realized just how sad the city is. I have always liked Philly for how they can have modern buildings with old historic buildings next together but they just did it all wrong here. Im sure there are nice parts to it but the highway that runs through the city splitting it up into the Downtown nice-ish part with the factory/housing/rusted unused railroad system is not the most appealing. Then when driving through the suburbs we kept on asking "is this the nice neighborhood?" And twenty minutes later you find us here in the parking lot of Duff's famous wings unable to roll down the windows due to the fact that the bees in Buffalo have a vendetta on NJ cars or something. (Really they are attacking the car windows like the the car is full of honey) And now that it is 11 and the bar is finally open (we got here at 10) Lew is having me go in to the bar order wings to go and then eating them in the car so we can make up for the tim lost.... to that I say "IT WAS YOUR IDEA TO GO HERE!!!" That is all.