Here’s another doorknob of the Bata Shoe Museum. Since we arrived 15 minutes before closing, we did about 6 minutes per floor with a minute to buy from the Gift Shop.
As you may have noticed, this was an exhibit about flowers and shoes. Each shoe has a different kind of flower aligned with it.
And then there was the entire floor of tennis shoes — of ALL kinds. Pretty and pretty cool!
And of course we know The Sex and The City girls with their Manolo Blahniks
This is the street view of the CN Tower the first time we tried to get to the top. It really IS an immensely huge statue/ edifice. And we eventually got up there the next day.
But it seems ridiculous that we went to the top of the Skylon Building in Niagara Falls and the CN Tower in Toronto on the same day.
I guess when you’ve only got three days, you smash in as much fun as you can.
This is the city of Niagara Falls, Canada. I think there is a Niagara Falls, United States. New York, I guess.
These are big hotels that were built to look over the falls.
There is a funicular/tram going up and down from the falls to the hotels.
The Canadian geese are NOT friendly and when I saw little children running after them, I knew they were living on borrowed time.
The Falls really are amazing. Water is just flowing along …… until there a gaping hole and the water pours into it. I suppose it was a glacier or earthquake millenniums ago that made the big hole in the first place. The falls are moving back a foot every ten years. However before they adjusted it, it was losing many more feet per year. So much so that the welcome center is no longer across the street from the falls. The falls have moved backward precipitously.
The US on the left (10%); Canada on the right (90%).
This was called Under the Falls. It was not quite under — more on the side of…. But we got wet anyway.
Just looking at photos doesn’t give it the awesomeness it deserves. Listen to the sound!!
Can you imagine being born in the town and then when you are 23 years old, they shut down the falls to adjust it and ……. SILENCE!!! I would think it was a Twilight Zone moment.
Now THIS was behind the falls. We walked down into two different tunnels and at the end, water from the falls was splashing down. Again, listen to the sound!
The Canadian Army Corp of Engineers or the like slow the falls way down every night, since the tourists aren’t around to see it anyway, and it saves the falls from erosion and constantly moving the falls backwards.
There are more falls so see from the view of us on a very wet boat in the last blog.
Happy Travels!