Niagara Falls in Winter

Well today marked a trip to the Niagara Falls region thanks to the International Student organisation here at the University of Waterloo. Our trip began at 10 am where we caught one of 3 school buses (like Bart Simpson's School bus) and made our way to the South East. After about 2hrs spent on the bus, in extremely cramped conditions (imagine the bus is made for 5-10yr olds) not to mention the fact that it was -15 or so outside and only heated on one side of the bus and as a result had the glass windows frosting up.

We had lunch at the Niagara on the lake township, nothing overly special, and then caught our buses again to the Falls, in particular the Fallsview Casino. Sven hadn't experienced a casino before and I think he found it interesting. The casino was even nice enough to offer us $10 each Cash just for coming along, oh yeah and a funky members card with a bouncy clip.

The falls were their beautiful selves with the added bonus being that the mist that the falls was producing had become a snowmaker on the other side. You can kinda just see it's effect on the left of the above right photo.

With the mist blowing the opposite way since our last visit, we were able to get up close and personal with the falls without needing to where our raincoats. But it was mighty cold.

After dusk, the falls are illuminated by some extremely large spot lights, this has a nice effect as you can see above. We also had the privilege to see a fireworks display, although it was somewhat relax and short compared to the Riverfire Festival.

After a long bus ride home, we arrived back at CLV only slightly frozen through, and for those you had the heater, sweating like dogs. I decided too late to get some shots of the bus, so you will just have to make it out in the above photo.