Bleh! I posted at the end of this summer saying I’d have a new post about Canada soon and here we are 3 months later and no post! 🤦🏻♀️
So, I downloaded the WordPress app again and am going to stop focusing on longer and “perfect post”. So, if you’re still sticking around your in luck!
Let’s see if I can make short updates a thing! 💪🏼
So, this past summer we tagged along with my sister and her kids to Niagara Falls Canada! We had always heard the views were better from Canada so we knew we had to see it from there.
So, before school got out I finally applied for a passport and I got Indie shots and the paperwork needed to cross the border and off we went when the time rolled around!
Mom and I headed to my sisters in Johnson City Tennessee on June 29th (I think). We stayed their two nights and headed two nights before heading to our KOA in Canada! We stopped along the way and stayed one night in Pennsylvania (I think), to break up our trip. Because we were slower moving than normal.
My sister took her Airstream she bought a few years back that she remodeled. I didn’t take my teardrop because there was room for mom to sleep in the airstream and temperatures were going to be cool enough for me to car camp!
Once we made it to our KOA campsite money exchange was our goal. I found a place down town and traffic was terrible. Just regular downtown busy streets. People walking everywhere, nowhere to park for a few minutes, and cars everywhere!! So i found a parking lot for a hotel, my sister got in my car, mom got in hers with the kids and I went and dropped my sister off.
I went back to where mom was in her car because it was literally only two blocks away and I realized it was going to take me forever to circle back around to pick her up so chances our we wouldn’t cross paths. And I didn’t want her to come out and be panicle and not know where to go…aaaand her cellphone hadn’t switched over to Canada towers so it wasn’t working!
So I very anxiously told mom to walk down to the store and she did successfully and they made it back to the cars!
Money exchange was a success! ✔️
I exchanged $500 which turned in something close to $670 so that was cool!
Then, the goal was a grocery store and we had one on the street our campground was on. Since we couldn’t really bring much food or anything with us, we had to buy stuff for the camper. And we were all very pleasantly shocked that food is cheaper there. A big bag of pistachios was like 5 dollars in Canadian money…so that’s like 4 something here!
The next few days we spent around Niagara Falls. We bought the pass for everything which I highly recommend. It was only 100 Canadian and we literally got to do everything that was offered.
The Whirlpool Aero Car was the only thing that was not handicap accessible, if I can remember correctly. But, I don’t recall having many issues anywhere else. And this was not a big deal at all because you could see the whirlpool from the balcony where you board the aero car. So I just missed out on being in the aero car over it.
We also paid extra for the night time firework and boat tour. And we felt like since we were being bad Americans and wouldn’t be in the country on the 4th of July it was best do the boat and fireworks on the 4th! And Canada did a good job of recognizing our Independence Day!
And here are pictures from all the other cool views we got!
As you can tell we really got to see the falls from a lot of different places since we went to the Canada side!
One day mom and I went to find a “beach” on the lake. We ended up just eating outside at restaurant right on the coastline because the beach was tiny and it was crowded!
We also found some fresh fish at a place at the marina that we took back and cooked for fish tacos that night! And the next day we went to the Toronto Museum!
We spent a long time at the museum because it was amazing! But when we left, the real fun began! Mom and I had gotten there before my sister and the kids, and they couldn’t park in the garage we were in because her car (4Runner) was too big. So off we all go to our cars and me and mom cannot find the door we came out of to get to our garage.
I knew where the garage was, but it said we couldn’t walk down in the roadway of the cars. We went all around and I finally decided to ask someone and that didn’t help, he only spoke French. 😬
So rebels we were and we beelined our way down to the garage when no one was coming! And with relief we made it back to my car.
We all wanted to go eat in China town and forgetting we were in a city of 2.93 million we just thought we’d drive right over there! so into my GPS I just enter – China town – start!
Also, I feel like you need this detail to understand more about my anxiety for the next 45 minutes….My tailgate cargo Carrie was on my car.
So, imagine downtown New York traffic where you literally are not even moving, and calculated risk have to be made to move at all aaaand your in a small suv that you increases the length of by 4 feet with your cargo carrier. Not my best planned moment.
Needless to say we saw a lot of the down town area of Toronto around China town, but like my sister we gave up and headed back to our little Lundy Lane area of tourism!
I think mom and I found a churches chicken that night for dinner and it was delish!
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