Drizzling and Damp, but oh so Delightful

Well our last full day in Niagara Falls has been dark and cool and windy! For breakfast, we opted to bundle up and head up Clifton Hill (which resembles an amusement park in terms of bright lights, wax museums, spook houses, and arcades etc) because we could see an IHOP sign from our vantage point on the 20th floor of our hotel. We ordered two breakfast plates and two coffees ... and ... it cost us $65!!! Yes. You read that right. Coffee was $4/cup ... our crepes and pancakes and eggs were almost $20 each ... add HST and GST and a tip = $65. 🙄 I wish I could say it was so delicious that it was worth it... but ... no.

After breakfast we opted to wander down to view things from "Behind the Falls". I've attached a video to give you a sense of our experience. Yes. It was wet ... but ... worth it! 🤗

We could have taken the "WeGo" bus ... but ... we logged a few more steps on foot in the rain ... dreaming of a good pizza for lunch. We stopped to ask one of the Niagara staff where to go ... they suggested Papa John's (even though Boston Pizza was right next door and 'Pizza Pizza' was right across the street.) Hmmmm. 🤔

We took the young man's advice and brought our pizza back to our room and settled in most comfotably by the floor to ceiling windows enjoying the Falls ... warm and dry with our Fireplace keeping us toasty and comfortable all the while. 🔥🔥🔥 And ... by golly ... the young man knew his pizza!! It was so good we kept on eating!! We thought we'd have leftovers to eat on the drive tomorrow ... but ... not likely!😏

We really enjoyed the laziness of the day and decided to go get a burrito from Freshi and bring it back to the room for supper!! A nice hot jacuzzi followed by a Pay per view movie (The Art of Racing in the Rain) = lovely way to spend a damp and dreary drizzling day.

And oh my gosh ... if you have not seen that unforgettable masterpiece of a movie ... be sure to gift your spirit by seeing it. I cannot do it justice with mere words ... but ... it is one of the most heartachingly beautiful stories of love ... depicting the complexities and layers and depths of its rich intricacies. 🙌

Oh my ... I don't ever recall a time when the tears have spilled out of my eyes with a force or intensity that almost mirrors the downpour of the Falls adjacent to us. I am still feeling my way through all richness of metaphor and symbolism so beautifully executed in this film💖💔💝

And so ... in the final analysis, the day was not how we would have planned... but it touched us in ways we never could have imagined. 🙏

So much so .... that we forgot to eat our supper. We shall do that now, while we enjoy the illumination of the Falls at night! Simply mezmerizing. 🤩🤩🤩

BTW: No zip-linig today either ... due to weather! 🌬🌧🌫 Our last shot at it will be tomorrow morning before we check out. Please keep your fingers crossed for us! 😉Read more