Niagara Falls

We just celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary and our tradition has always been to celebrate each anniversary by the water (lakes, oceans, rivers etc) and this year we have booked a Caribbean Cruise for February. On the actual date, to keep up with tradition, we spent a few days in the Niagara Falls area. It's only a 3 hour drive and the Falls are beautiful - the power of the water makes you wonder how anyone could ever survive going over them!!

The American Falls

The Canadian Falls

The Skylon Tower (revolving dining room and observatory) - where we had our anniversary dinner:

American Falls from the Skylon Tower Dining Room

The Canadian Falls from the Skylon Tower Dining Room:

The Whirlpool River before it meets Lake Ontario:

Niagara on the Lake - a quaint little town with lots of shops and restaurants:

One of my favorite artists' gallery - Angie Strauss - unfortunately she is closing down - so I bought one more print (of Niagara Falls, of course)

The area between the Falls and Niagara on the Lake has many, many wineries, so, of course, we stopped at a few. Ice wine is quite popular in this area - a sweet dessert wine in a lovely tall thin bottle:

My favorite wine at Konzelmann's was their Peach wine, and we can only bring back 2 bottles through customs, so that we did!

More great fruit wines:

While eating lunch at an outside restaurant in Niagara on the Lake, I spied this beauty:

NY has so many great areas to take day trips or short vacations, and if you've never been to Niagara Falls - its a MUST DO!

The summer ends for me this week as school begins the day after Labor Day... summertime goes by so quickly! But I do look forward to the Fall in the Adirondacks.