My Fluffy Pillows

Don't be mistaken. That was how our tour guide pronounced Niagara Falls. My boyfriend was slightly better, he calls it Ni-ah-ga-ra Falls. Haha. It should be Nai-air-gra i suppose :P

Being the cheapskates on a tight budget, we booked the cheapest tour we could possibly find and wound up with the Chinatown tour pack. No, I'm not being insulting to label them as such, but the agency was literally named Chinatown tours. You've been warned.

Most of the guides managing the tours spoke survival English, meaning they only know enough English to sustain life in the US. I am not being mean, just plain honest because the non-Chinese people on board did have difficulty conversing with our guide. It was both amusing and frustrating at the same time, trying to make out what he was trying to tell us when we were on board.

For example, he informed that we would be staying at the 'Four-sai-in', to which I gave the what-the-hell-is-he-trying-to-say-now expression for the umpteen time during the trip. We were spending the night at the Fall Side Inn.

Anyway we arrived at the falls and then it started to rain.

Then the both of us were like 'So sway! We came all the way to see the waterfall and it's raining?'


Almost drenched within 5 minutes upon arrival.



Then the bimbotic couple realised that it wasn't raining, but the wind was bellowing the fall's mist into our direction.


I can't see no shit waterfall cause the mist is blocking everything.



Anyway, I learnt on that day that the Niagara Falls was actually made up of 3 seperate waterfalls - Horseshoe Falls, Bridal Viel Falls and the America Falls.



The America Falls during the day.




The America Falls at night with light displays and a shutter adjusted appature to make the waters look smooth.



The next morning, we decided to go on the Cave of the Winds tour for a closer look of the falls.


We arrived at the foot of the falls after an elevtor ride down and made our way along the seemingly haphazard construction of wooden walkways.




The yellow raincoat and sandles were provided for the tours which you can choose to keep or recycle.




As close as it gets.



Then we headed down for the Maid of the Mist tour, a ferry ride to allow as a full view of the falls. It is impossible to get a proper view of the falls on the America side. The Canadian border will provide the full panoramic view instead.


A fellow ferry making a u-turn back towards the dock.



On board the ferry, someone offered to help us take a photo with the Horseshoe Falls as backdrop.


I really appreciate the kind gesture, but we were bolcking the bloody waterfall!