one place i'm not taking mum

so mum has booked a trip to come and visit me. she arrives 3 weeks today and will be here for a week. sweet. i am looking forward to that.

howver, one place i am not taking her is Niagara Falls. (unless she really really really wants to go...then maybe). we went yesterday. me, cate, matt and matt. it kind of sucked. the weather was terrible. we went anyway. it takes about an hour and a half to get there. there weather wasn't too bad there. so we saw the falls and went ok. sure they were fine. but i wasn't blown away by any means. the fear that i had at the grand canyon of arriving and going 'oh nice, can we go now' came true at the falls. then there isn't really much else to do there, unless you are willing to spend a fortune to do crappy things. we did see The Ultimate Ride advertised and did get kind of excited, until we saw the crappy little cart that you rode around in and realised that not even an ant would have found riding that cart any fun. oh, did i also mention we found a parking place and paid $10 to park and then we walked out and literally next door we found the first of many $5 all day parking places. doh. we all agreed - niagara sucks. but we had a good day anyway.