Date 25th May 2007(Friday) - My trip started on a good note, when I got a ride to airport from a colleague. I slept well on airplane and reached Columbus in Ohio state. From there went straight to my friends place(hallu), had dinner cooked by Priyanka (bhabi) and chatted about Warangal days.
Date 26th May 2007(Saturday) - Woke up early(@ 8am, its early for a weekend). Rented a Vibe(its a car, how can I rent a actual vibe) and started our journey towards Niagara falls. Its a 6 hr journey, which has to be completed in breaks, else our driver(hallu) and navigator(me) would have died on the way. So our first stop was Cleavland Downtown. It took 2.5 hrs and we were damn hungry by then and after grabbing some junk food we started our(basically Priyanka's) foto session. Cleavland has a beautiful downtown just next to sea shore. After initial foto session we went to sea shore and found that ship museum was closed. So we started our journey again and lost after way as we took a wrong turn. But with the help from a guy at Gas Station, we were back on our way after 45 min's. Also there was another issue, being a long weekend every inn was full. After lot of trying we found an inn and slept peacefully after a tiring day.
Date 27th May 2007(Sunday) - Again started our journey, went to quiet sea shore and sang a few filmy songs(Not the kind in movies dancing and singing with music). And again started moving towards the falls. We had to cross Buffalo city (I thought only we keep odd names for cities, but its same in US also) to reach Niagara falls. We straight went to our inn(Inn on the river), but here also we dint got the room because rooms were booked from 3pm and presently cleaning was going on. So we started towards Niagara and had lunch at a below average costly Indian restaurant(International Punjabi Dhaba).
After that we reached Cave of the winds. You have to take an elevator ride down 80 meters and walk along the base of the falls on a series of wooden stairs and decks. Over there the feel and experience of the power of Niagara Falls cant be expressed in the words. You will get wet irrespective of the fact that you wear raincoat or not. Since we went there in evening we could see the effect of lights on the falls which were focused from Canadian side.
After that we saw fireworks, it was good. One after the other all those crackers lighted the cloudy sky with stars with shortest life of few seconds. After that we watched the falls from the goat island with the laser lights. It was beautiful.
Surprise of the day was we met 2 college people at Niagara. One was senior and another is girl from our batch. World is a small place.
Date 28th May 2007(Monday) - Day started with Maid of the mist(http://www.maidofthemist.com/) boat ride. Its a half an hour ride and it takes you near to the falls but you cant see anything over there because of the mist. Its called so because of an old myth that in the mist, there lives a lady. This story I came to know in a small movie on Niagara falls which we saw over there.
After that we left Niagara to reach Columbus on time. With very few stops and following traffic rules(except for speed limit) we reached back in 5.5 hrs(excluding stoppage time). Then slept well but late to wake up early next morning to catch my flight.
Date 29th May 2007(Tuesday) - Got up early next morning to catch my flight @ 6am and reached Houston.
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