I don't know how I did that but I can't get back to my post. Sooooo I'll continue with this one. It's Tuesday morning and we are about to go out and explore the area around Niagra. The hotel we are in is within walking distance of the falls and when you go outside you can hear the rushing water and see the plume of mist that goes up from the falls. It is a very nice but touristy area so we are off to do some exploring.

We walked enough yesterday to balance out any food we are consuming. :) FYI The casino here in Niagra wasn't very nice to either of us last night. I think Denny came out ahead but not me. There are four more on the Canadian side but then that means crossing that Rainbow Bridge again and neither of us want to spend that much time sitting and waiting. We may venture a walk across before we leave tomorrow and head for upstate NY and Vermont.

Day One Niagra!!

July 25,2011

Leaving Detroit by way of the Ambassador Bridge we headed into Canada. Windsor to be exact. We were surprised (I don't know why) to find out that Illinois isn't the only place they grow corn and soybeans. Ontario or at least the area we drove through was filled with crops. Denny inspected them all. So with the crops to inspect and the trucks with their 11 axels he was in farmer/trucker heaven. The trip was beautiful and we enjoyed it very much.

We arrived in Niagra and had to sit in line on the Rainbow Bridge waiting to go back through the border. Needless to say we aren't going to sit in those lines again to go back over to the Canadian side. Although a good look a Horseshoe falls may be in order......

The falls are beautiful and the Maid of the Mist offers front row seating to observe them and the power they have..... the boat takes you right up to the bottom of both sets of falls. It was really quite breathtaking and boy do you get WET!!!!

Vacation 2011

We left beautiful downtown Edred at 6 am this morning. No problems getting up and out that early unless you take into consideration the fact that 4 kitties were not happy about the suitcases being moved out of the house. They did NOT make getting up and out easy, like having a set of triplets all bent on doing something different or going into a different direction.

We hit one bad storm just north of Urbana/Champaigne it was pretty awful. Lots of wind, rain and funny HUGE clouds. That followed us as we skirted Chicago and then Gary IN. Finally out ran it in Michigan.

Our new GPS is a real test in patience and endurance. But we won and despite her trying to take us by way of jibip we arrived in Allen Park, MI (Detroit suburb) at about 4 this afternoon.

No pictures sorry, hopefully tomorrow. I did take one of the "Welcome to Indiana" sign and completely missed the "Welcome to Michigan" sign. What do you want...I was taking them as sped by them on the interstate in the rain.

We were sidetracked because of construction and it turned out to be a good thing!!! We kept seeing these little hand painted signs for "air show" but no traffic, no people, so we kinda ignored them. Driving down this peaceful state highway when all of a sudden (sounds like the night before Christmas:) this loud boom and 6 jets fly right over the car. It was the "Blue Angels" and there really was an air show. About a mile down the road all the people that obviously didn't want to pay the price to get into the show were parked and double parked along this highway. We got to see several flybys and several aerial tricks. I was impressed. The unplanned things are usually the best.

Got to talk to the NJ grandkids this evening and they are waiting patiently for us to arrive and it sounds like they have our days planned.

We ventured to downtown Detroit and of course, visited a casino. MGM Grand, nice but crowded. Took me 20 minutes to find Denny when it was time to leave and we were talking to each other on the phone. "Where are you?" "I'm by Wolfgang Puck." "Where is that?" "I don't know" "Are you by the Boubon Street Steak House?" "No, I'm by Wolfgang Puck" "How bout we meet at the cashier" "Where is that" "I don't know" and so on and so on! It was really quite commical~! I felt like we were doing our own versiono of "Whose on First!" It was a good night and both of us left with more than we started with.

Now it is time to relax and enjoy the evening and wait out the rush hour traffic tomorrow. They told us at the desk to wait until after 9. So we are being lazy tomorrow and enjoying breakfast before heading out to cross the bridge into Canada. According to our wonderful and accurate GPS....we are scheduled to arrive in Niagra at about 3 pm tomorrow afternoon.

Hope everyone is fine...I hope to have pictures tomorrow of Niagra Falls. Miss you all.

PS CORN UPDATE: Denny says no ones corn (In Indiana and some in Michigan) looks as good and as healthy as our Illinois corn. Some corn in Michigan didn't even have tassles yet. Most corn we saw was a funny yellow green color not even close to the nice deep green back home!

It's been a LONG Time!!!!

Hello Family and Friends,

It's vacation time and I'm going to try this blogging again. We leave a week from today. Hopefully I will be able to use this site to keep everyone informed of our whereabouts and how the vacation is going. Also I look forward to posting lots of new pictures of Niagra Falls and New Enland. Stay tuned for more postings beginning next week.