Vacation, the wrap-up.
Three Good Things about the vacation:
1. Slept until 9 every morning. Our hotel room faced the falls, and thus was not directly in the line of sunlight. We did not have a fallsview per se(though I suspect that our room probably has a very good view in the wintertime), but it was nice and shaded in the mornings.
2. Sleeman's Honey Brown Lager. I spent a fruitless week looking for La Fin Du Monde in the restaurants and the bar of the hotel I went to, but I enjoyed this Canadian brown lager which was similar to Newcastle.
3. Won $120(CDN) in the new Fallsview Niagara Casino. Laurene and I were going to go in with $20(US) each, but the machines only take Canadian money. So $20 US became $26 CDN, and I put the $6 in my pocket, and walked out up $100. Laurene went in, lost, and we had an extra dinner with the money that I won.
Three Not So Good Things about the vacation.
1. The exchange rate was worse this year than last. When we were in Niagara last year, the exchange rate was somewhere in the vicinity of $1.40 CDN for $1 US. This year it was $1.25 CDN to $1.
2. It rained part of almost every day, and a couple of days were spent in malls in St. Catharines and Hamilton instead of enjoying the outdoors. (Though luckily for us, the worst rain stayed well north of us. On Thursday, I opened my complimentary Toronto Star to read that Peterborough, Ontario had gotten 190mm of rain overnight. That would be 7 and a half freaking inches. In addition, earlier in the week, the western provinces experienced tornados and golf-ball sized hail. So I should be happy to have only experienced rain.)
3. No La Fin. (See above.)
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Overall, we had a wonderful time. One thing that can be said about Niagara is that even if you don't have a ton of money to spend, you can still have a good time. Most of the fast food places are reasonable and as with Orlando, there are plenty of buffet places and/or inexpensive meal deals to be had at most of the restaurants. The majority of the money that I spent on the vacation was for the hotel. We did all the usual things that you can do with a two year old: walked the Falls, Maid Of The Mist, went swimming in the hotel pools, watched the fireworks, went to Marineland, watched the Homerun Derby and All-Star Game in our hotel room(some of the All-Star Game anyway. After the AL bitchslapped Roger Clemens in the first inning, it didn't seem worth watching the rest of it.), bumped around in the aforementioned malls. Now it's back to work, and I've got a week and a half of boxing and NWA/TNA to catch up on, as well as the PPV that I missed last Sunday night. (Thank God for Bit Torrent.)
1. Slept until 9 every morning. Our hotel room faced the falls, and thus was not directly in the line of sunlight. We did not have a fallsview per se(though I suspect that our room probably has a very good view in the wintertime), but it was nice and shaded in the mornings.
2. Sleeman's Honey Brown Lager. I spent a fruitless week looking for La Fin Du Monde in the restaurants and the bar of the hotel I went to, but I enjoyed this Canadian brown lager which was similar to Newcastle.
3. Won $120(CDN) in the new Fallsview Niagara Casino. Laurene and I were going to go in with $20(US) each, but the machines only take Canadian money. So $20 US became $26 CDN, and I put the $6 in my pocket, and walked out up $100. Laurene went in, lost, and we had an extra dinner with the money that I won.
Three Not So Good Things about the vacation.
1. The exchange rate was worse this year than last. When we were in Niagara last year, the exchange rate was somewhere in the vicinity of $1.40 CDN for $1 US. This year it was $1.25 CDN to $1.
2. It rained part of almost every day, and a couple of days were spent in malls in St. Catharines and Hamilton instead of enjoying the outdoors. (Though luckily for us, the worst rain stayed well north of us. On Thursday, I opened my complimentary Toronto Star to read that Peterborough, Ontario had gotten 190mm of rain overnight. That would be 7 and a half freaking inches. In addition, earlier in the week, the western provinces experienced tornados and golf-ball sized hail. So I should be happy to have only experienced rain.)
3. No La Fin. (See above.)
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Overall, we had a wonderful time. One thing that can be said about Niagara is that even if you don't have a ton of money to spend, you can still have a good time. Most of the fast food places are reasonable and as with Orlando, there are plenty of buffet places and/or inexpensive meal deals to be had at most of the restaurants. The majority of the money that I spent on the vacation was for the hotel. We did all the usual things that you can do with a two year old: walked the Falls, Maid Of The Mist, went swimming in the hotel pools, watched the fireworks, went to Marineland, watched the Homerun Derby and All-Star Game in our hotel room(some of the All-Star Game anyway. After the AL bitchslapped Roger Clemens in the first inning, it didn't seem worth watching the rest of it.), bumped around in the aforementioned malls. Now it's back to work, and I've got a week and a half of boxing and NWA/TNA to catch up on, as well as the PPV that I missed last Sunday night. (Thank God for Bit Torrent.)
posted by Jon M. at
10:09 PM
2 Comments:
Actually Damn that BitTorrent for keeping me from stopping filling my hard drive up. Especially since My computer doesn't want to acknowledge the new external harddrive I'm trying to attach. Damn it, I want 200gig, not just the 120 that's almost filled.
Oh, I understand, Ken. I am maintaining a 40 or so Gig free space limit on my 120GB hard drive, only because I'm in the midst of the clutter project and because I delete the NWA shows once I've watched them.
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