Paradise Falls

Soon after we were married, Glenda’s father remarried and took his new family to Niagara Falls. When her dad told her how great Niagara Falls was, she really wanted to go. We lived near Washington, D. C. so our visiting the falls seemed possible. I promised I would take her. I made a couple hundred dollars a month so we started saving. In about a year we had enough to make a quick trip up to Niagara. Then the generator on our Volkswagen went out. Then the Army sent me to Thailand. And then something else happened.

And then. . .

And then. . .

Somehow we never got to Niagara Falls.

Until today.

We not only got to see the top of the waterfall, we got to go out in a boat and practically get in the watery cascade. It was great! Even though we were wearing cheap plastic ponchos, the spray soaked us on this eighty-degree day. We laughed like magpies.

One of our favorite movies, titled “Up,” deals with an older couple’s dream to see the mythical “Paradise Falls.” In that bittersweet tale, the couple never is able to complete their dream together, but today we did.

When Chuck Cook makes a promise, he keeps it.

Even if it takes 51 years.Read more