our niagara falls trip

[GarterGirl]

this week we went on a trip to Niagara Falls. It was awesome! The falls were so big and the water never stopped! I wonder where all that water is coming from.

Anyway, we got to go to the base of the fall. IT WAS SO FUN! There were a bunch of decks at the base of the fall. There was a deck called Hurricane deck. It was right under the waterfall. I went to Hurricane deck and got soaked. It feels amazing when the water is crashing down on your back. I wanted to go again.

We did other fun stuff too. Drache has more than 150 pics. She'll post later.

Before we went to Niagara Falls we went to Ithaca. I really liked it. They had a nice cafe there that had the best smoothies in the world!

The final treat was the visit to Terry's!
We had a great breakfast of pancakes, bacon and eggs.
It was the best breakfast i've had in months!
Then, Terry showed us his snakes. They were all so beautiful!
After that, we went on a nice long walk with Terry and his dog,
chloe.
Terry gave drache and i each a snake. They are both so beautiful.
Terry said he thinks they are gonna mate. I hope so!
He gave me 2 turkey feathers. They are really nice too!
Then we had to go. We said bye to Chloe and Terry.
Then we left.
It was a great trip!

james! Dont worry!
Rhea is gonna post pictures of
Terry too.

[adamanteus]

Sounds like you had a great time with Terry, Mikhaila! Niagra sounds fun too!

[enigma200316]

sounded great glad you all had fun:)
I was to Niagra about 10 yrs ago on both The US and Canada sides.....I had a lot of fun also......:D

[Lulu Bennett]

mikhaila that sounds fantastic! i would love to go to the niagra falls, you have just made me want to go even more lol glad you enjoied your trip to terrys

[GarterGirl]

thanks guys
it was really fun
and you know what james?
i think rhea is posting just about now

[GarterGirl]

uh
on the other hand
maybe she's still downloading them
onto the computer

[Josh]

wow seems like you had fun mikhaila

[GarterGirl]

yeah
I had a lot of fun
i wanna go again sometime
it was terrific.
i hope you get to go sometime lulu
it was just spectacular

[Lulu Bennett]

oh mikhaila. i have a vid of my snakes mating (or atleast i think they were) and as promised as soon as i can upload them i will give you the link. (sooo sorry Rhea lol) you do remember the conversation dont you? lol

[Sid]

Mikihaila, Sounds like a gread trip. The Falls are a place I hope to visit some day. Congrat's to both you and your Mom on the new snakes, very kind of Terry. Maybe someday I'll make it to New York, see the Falls and can get a chance to meet all of you.;)

[drache]

yes
it was a much better trip than I had anticipated
I'd been looking forward to Ithaca
it's a lovely university town with plenty of good food places to choose from
and spectacular gorges
there wasn't much water, but we did hike up a riverbed to a waterfall
it was lovely

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the stone there is shale and sandstone and some of the formations look man-made with their straight lines and squares

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toward the end of the hike there was a wonderful rock garden and we all got to participate

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[drache]

oops
I deleted a bunch
here's some Niagara pics
(can't really capture the place)

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1439/1281037736_04d20c4ec4_b.jpg (http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1439/1281037736_04d20c4ec4_b.jpg)
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or at least not without getting wet

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our visit with Terry was the icing on the cake
more later

[CrazyHedgehog]

wow stunning pics, looks wonderful!

[abcat1993]

That's making me wish I had said to go to the American side. On the Canadian side there's just a bunch of casinos and things, no chance for anything natural like your first pictures.
Although we did have a bigger waterfall :p

[drache]

can you even stand the suspense?
Of course we already knew that Terry is a nice person
he makes a fantastic breakfast too

I didn't take pics of his sun room, but I can tell you that it is both much larger and much more full of stuff than you'd suspect from his pics
the viv he made is also even nicer
well
here's the three of us

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here's a pic of Mikhaila's new snake whom she named Jasper

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and
you're not going to believe this (I hardly can)
this is the snake, Terry gave me
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1220/1281157564_2753acb93b_b.jpg

her name is Chloe

[enigma200316]

great pics thanks for sharing......:D

[Josh]

thanks for sharing....hi terry

[Josh]

wow i love that maritime i hope mine grow up like that!!!!!!!!

[ssssnakeluvr]

those are some awesome photos!!!

[GarterGuy]

Very cool sounds like a really fun trip. Never been up there myself. Funny, those falls in Ithica are right near where my sister lives. If you follow the stream upstream for about a mile it goes through her property. She's got some really cool pics of the falls from last winter. Really pretty Maritimes you got from Terry too. Very cool looking and really good colours.:D

Roy

[Snaky]

Looks like a great trip! Very nice pictures also:)

[Sid]

Great pictures, Rhea. Those are both great looking snakes. And the trip is certainly something I would enjoy....maybe someday...:cool: also, nice to see Terry's photo.

[Lulu Bennett]

wow, im speachless...lol the pics of the falls are unbelievably absolutly fantasticly amazing. lol ok not too speachless lol

Rhea, Mikhaila, Terry. i am really glad you had a good time im really happy for you. xxx

[ScimitarX]

Most definitely great pics!! Glad you all had a wonderful time:)

[Gijs & Sabine]

Wow, those pics of the falls looks amazing :eek: I think you have to be there to get the real feeling of it.

And those maritimes look awesome !! I can undersrand you're very happy with them.
I'm glad you both have a great time. We also love to visit other members:rolleyes:

[stonyloam]

We had a wonderful time.:D Rhea, Mikhaila and Jeff are even nicer in person than here (which is hard to imagine). I know two snakes have a VERY good home. If Jasper is really a Jasper (and not a Jasperette:eek:) there might be babies next year. Great names Mikhaila, it was really nice naming Rhea’s Chloe (formally green girl, no imagination there). It was great to meet you. The photos were great, and Jeff did a good job (I didn’t look too fat) on the portrait. BTW the first falls is Taughannock Falls, and is actually higher than Niagara (215 ft), only the volume of water is slightly less (I couldn't resist adding some nearly useless trivia).:D:D

[drache]

BTW the first falls is Taughannock Falls, and is actually higher than Niagara (215 ft), only the volume of water is slightly less (I couldn't resist adding some nearly useless trivia).:D:D

now that I think of it, those falls looked really tall - never occurred to me to compare the height with Niagara
and I'm sure now, judging from that riverbed that is has an immensely larger capacity for water
there was a lady there who said she'd never seen it so dry before
they also don't let you get you very close, because of the danger from falling rocks

I just love useless trivia

oh, we also went to this town called Lockport, so named because of a series of locks (boat elevators) in the Erie Canal (10' elevation difference each, totaling 50")
this town once had three factories run directly by hydro-power
the water was diverted from the Canal through huge water pipes that had been tunneled through the rock
that water directly powered the drive shafts for the machinery in the factories
so we got to walk through one the main tunnel and that was pretty amazing
even though it's man-made, this tunnel is now old enough to start behaving a bit like a natural cave, forming stalactites and flow stone patterns

[Stefan-A]

Great pictures, Rhea. :)

[adamanteus]

Hi Terry! Great to meet you!:D

Lovely photos Rhea.

[Elliot]

Great pics, and congrats on the new snakes! I can only hope that mine look like that someday.:rolleyes: