Niagara Falls/Lake Erie - Day 3 - June 13, 2011

We decided to head north to the town of Niagara-on-the Lake today – heard it was a cool town with shops. It turned out to be a bit of a "la-te-da" town. We looked around at some of the shops (mostly bakeries!). The highlight of our time there was the shop called Cows. It was an ice cream shop with all kinds of cow merchandise – funny cow merchandise like Justin Beefer, iCowly, Mootube, Hannah Moontana t-shirts. (If you click the link, you can see the funny t-shirts!) We had some pretty tasty homemade ice cream there!

From there we headed west along Lake Ontario. We were very unimpressed. If you like wine, you would like it – there are wineries and grapes growing all along the way. We finally ended up at a visitor center when we stopped for gas. One of the girls there told us about a cool campground that she used to go to when she was a kid. She said there were all kinds of things for kids to do there. So we headed south to Lake Erie with a map of some different waterfront campgrounds to check. We drove to the first one (a little out of the way, but looked like it was directly on the water), but first we stopped at a little drive up place to eat. Afterwards we headed to the campground called Knight’s Beach fully intending on staying there, but when we didn’t really even see much of a beach, we decided to head east towards the U.S. We drove and drove trying to find the other campgrounds on the map (that we got at the visitor’s center), but they were not there! We did check out one State Park, but just weren’t impressed.

We finally ended up at Sherkston Shores, the campground the girl told us about. Well… it was pretty much deserted ($25 a night to camp). We realized it wasn’t the “in season” yet. One of the cashiers at Niagara Falls told Katelyn the kids around there weren’t finished school until the end of June. By the time we were settled and took a little walk to Lake Erie, it was time for bed. This was a pretty uneventful day – a lot of driving and not much to see or do. At this point Doug wished Katelyn had chosen Cape Cod!