The Professor and I went to Niagara Falls this past week (with my in-laws) and while it was only a 1-day excursion, it was so awesome. I’d never been there before and admittedly I was a tad nervous considering I’m scared of heights and water. We ended up doing a Grey-line tour, then staying the night on the Canadian side of the border (my first time in Canada). Before we crossed the border for our tour though we stopped for lunch at the restaurant on Goat Island, which gave us a panoramic view of the Canadian falls. Then we could walk down to this observation area to see the Canadian falls up close as well as a nice view of the American falls. It was just spectacular.

The tour was fantastic. We did the Behind the Falls tour, went up in the tower for an aerial view of both falls, got lots of interesting historical facts (like the people who tempt fate to ride down the falls in barrels), then we saw the falls light up at night (didn’t get great pictures of this part). Needless to say I took tons of pictures, but here are some highlights.

This is a view of the Canadian falls from Goat Island

Close up of the bottom of the American falls from Goat Island

The Professor on the Behind the Falls tour…that white stuff at the end of the tunnel was all water – really loud water.

Right after the Behind the Falls tour we walked out onto a viewing platform with great close up shots of the Canadian falls

Another view of the Canadian falls

American falls

Aerial view from the tower of the Canadian falls.

Aerial view of the American falls.