Niagara Falls

David and I left Bruce beach on Thursday, and today is Saturday. Only 3 days passed, we have done a lot.

First day, we had a boat trip at Niagara Falls and had a great dinner in a Greek restaurant. Second day, we visited Jiajia, my Chinese friend and glass museum which is near her house, then had a campus adventure at Cornell University. The last day, we joined a campus tour at Yale University and lived in lovely B&B between Yale university and New York.

One of the reasons that I enjoy traveling is I love to learn the differences and surprises during trips. In the Greek restaurant, I took a picture of their painting on the wall. It is said by a Greek philosopher that “women know everything about everything”.

“What does it mean?” I asked the waiter, “Do you believe it?”

“I do not believe it, but if my girl-friend is here, I will agree.”

“How many Greeks believe it?”

“At least 50%”, said David as he joined our conversation, “the women.”

We all busted into laughter afterwards. Isn't it great to know this wisdom of life started from thousand of years ago in Ancient Greece?!

Both David and I enjoyed the buffet in the Cornell students' dinning hall. I was surprised there are so many choices, stir fry with To Fu and veggies, delicious fried rice, pasta, Pizza, wrappers, fruits, non-GMO milk and frozen yogurt….I told David I was very satisfied with the quality of food. His idea to go to the buffet, I love the campus atmosphere. I feel it is quieter, more activities, sports, arts quad, and the water falls are nice too.

The amazing thing of the third day is I found the Airbnb we chose is only one third price of our house in California. But the house seems bigger and yard is spacious. It is located between Yale university and New York City. I am surprised the differences. Should we move to east coast?….

-Yanmei

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Well, we've started our long journey back west to California by going east to Niagara Falls. We're planning on heading to the east coast before turning back across the country. It's a pretty easy 3 hour drive to Niagara from Bruce Beach. We stayed on the Canadian side today.

We went on the Hornblower cruise, which is the Canadian version of Maid of the Mist. I'd bought the tickets online the day before, so we skipped the ticket line and just walked on the boat with no waiting at all.

After the boat ride we headed to out hotel to check in. We thought about doing the behind the falls walk, but I think the heat and humidity took a lot out of us, so we just rested in the room for a while.

The town of Niagara Falls is very touristy, at least near the falls. Usually I don't like that stuff, but for some reason I found a lot of it appealing here. I feel like I could spend a few more days here, going through the mirror maze, looking at the wax museum, playing mini golf, etc. They even have one of those vertical wind tunnels where you can do simulated skydiving.

I'm Anyway, for dinner we went to a Greek restaurant named Koutouki, which was highly rated on Yelp.

Yanmei ordered Papoutsakia, which is a grilled eggplant tower with veggies

The meal was excellent. Yanmei had a couple of bites of my lamb and then regretted not ordering it herself. I've notice a pattern emerging at the last few nice places we've dined. She'll order the vegetarian option then after the meal wish she'd ordered a meat dish.

It rained a bit on us in the evening, then started to rain hard just as we got back to the hotel.

Overall a good start to our return journey.

-David

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