Niagara Falls/Lake Erie - Day 1 - June 11, 2011

We said we’d do it and we did! We wanted to leave right after school ended for a trip in Sandy! We gave Katelyn 2 choices – Cape Cod or Niagara Falls. She chose Niagara Falls – she was there when she was 2 years old to visit Uncle Randy, who was doing border patrol at the time. That time (with Randy’s connection), we got to ride in a helicopter over the falls. She fell asleep! :) She was ready to see the Falls again – this time as a bigger kid with a video camera!

So we got up on Saturday, June 11, and drove to Niagara Falls, Ontario. That was quite a drive. We stopped at a Sheetz for gas and food along the way. We got our food and ate in Sandy. We enjoy that. Katelyn brought 10 books along, so you can guess what she did the whole way up to Canada! Crossing the border was no problem. We had our passports ready and were a little bummed that they didn’t stamp them… I wonder why they don’t?
It was about a 7 hour drive – we went right to our campground – Niagara Falls KOA.

It was a very nice and clean campground. They had a huge inflatable pillow that Katelyn had fun jumping around on. Then we went to the indoor pool – Doug and Katelyn swam while I read The City of Ember (a book of Katelyn’s that I started to read one day and now I can’t put down!). They had fun swimming, then back to the campsite for a campfire. We roasted hot dogs and those new HUGE marshmallows!! They were pretty fun – roast the outside layer then eat that and roast the next one and so on! Takes a while to eat just one!

We have our new top on Sandy – did it ourselves – that’s a story for another entry – I think I’ll let Doug tell that one since he did most of the work! Anyway, it got very chilly as night hit, so we didn’t even need our extra two windows! Needless to say, we used sheets and blankets this night! Katelyn loves sleeping up top.