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It was coming to the end of the year and I still hadn't seen Niagara Falls so I grabbed 2 Irish, Stephen and his girl friend Laura, and 1 Spaniard, Diego, and hired a car for a trip up to Niagara Falls and across the border into Canada. The Falls are amazing! (I think Niagara Falls and the Grand Canyon are two of the best things in the USA). We saw the Falls by day from the American side and then by night from the Canadian side. (Due to a small piece of Visa paper that Diego neglected to bring the border control wouldn't allow him past the border so we had to leave him and pick him up on the way back through). The lights on the falls are huge and continually change colours. It was pretty cold and all the surrounding plants had become encased as ice sculptures. We did a small 'light show' night-drive by different scenes made up out of flurescent lights, created on the side of a short road in Canada. The following day we took a 'Journey behind the Falls' 50m down an elevator that linked to a tunnel that popped out at the waterfall base where the bottom left photo was taken from.
So having left Diego on the border to enjoy the Falls on the American side we made our way up about 1 hour north to Toronto. Starving, we gorged ourselves on Chinese and the following day visited an old, large castle overlooking the town (left) and the admired the view (though somewhat cloudy) of Toronto from the CN Tower (right). The tower is the highest tower/man-made structure in the world (top right). As a result, people have made it their duty to be the first to base jump, abseil, climb, hang-glide, fall from cables and whatever other adrenaline activity you can think of, from the tower. The highlight for me was the glass floor. Here there is a section of transparent floor that you can walk over and look directly down to the ground (above centre). Many tourists were too scared to walk over it, but I took the liberty of jumping up and down as high as I could on the glass. It didn't bust through although I think Laura thought I was crazy.
