The decision to go to Canda was not an easy process. My partner and I knew we wanted a vacation to get away, and to drag our best friend Shawta along to experience something new with us. The location had to be close enough to drive, within our price range, and a large enough city to keep us entertained. So we finally decided on Toronto, Canada with a stop off at Niagra Falls on the way. This would combine all the things we were looking for in our vist. Now that the decision was final its time to pack for the trip, and once packed it would be off to Canada for vacation. The drive did not turn out exactly as we had anticipated! At first we were overwhelmed with excitement thinking about how much fun we would have in Toronto, but as the hours passe

rist information station. We then stumbled upon a shopping mall in the bottom of one of these massive buildings. With our feet dragging we looked around for information, nothing just business men in suits standing around talking, it wasn¹t like any mall I have been to! I spotted a bookstore thinking we could get information on the locations of hotels in an area that we would be hanging out in. The book we were looking for was not there, so we flagged down an employee to ask about it. She told us that particular book store couldn¹t help us, but she knew where a tourist information station was. It was quite a walk though, but we had to do it. Shawta, was dragging behind her feet killing her, making the situaiton worse. The three of us were exhausted and uncertain about what to do next. We reached the place the book store employee told us to go, what a relief, and they had information for us as well as a hotel to stay in. We immediately made reservations and with maps in hand our new goal was to get out of this mall and reach the hotel. Apparently,Shawta had been busy too. She had tracked down two young guys and asked them about the dance clubs we were interested in finding.

Robert, rattled off many different choices, but we couldn¹t decide. He finally just took us to a place, I don¹t recall the name for very good reasons.

After resting up we were ready to go out to eat. Our new friend suggested a place called Zelda¹s. It was an up beat colorful restaurant, full of intersting and diverse people laughing and talking having a good time. Everywhere you looked there was something extraordinary to look at. I had never seen anything like it, and never will in Dayton. Daytonians just couldn¹t handle a place like this. Someone or some group would have to protest it and make us miss out. The food was great I had some kind of Chicken meal. It was hot off the grill, with its black stripes up and down the breast, over a bed of pasta covered in alfredo sauce. My salad was the regular lettuce, carrots, cucumbers, and tomatos, however no dressing . I thought this was unusual, but the restaurant didn¹t use any type of dressing. Zelda¹s turned out to be our favorite restaurant, we ate there everyday and loved it every time. After paying our bill and working our way through the crowd we decided we wo!

d so did the energy. There wasn¹t enough room to stretch, we were hungry, tired, and getting cranky with each other. Stopping at each rest area wasn¹t helping much at all by this time. We passed Columbus seeing it¹s patrotic display of red, white, and blue lights on the buildings tops, and now heading towards Cleveland, but still had along ways to go. The drive was broken up into segments to make it easier to endure the long trip. Concentrating on one city at a time as our destination.

Once reaching Niagra Falls in the early morning, the sun was about to peek over the horizon. We pulled in the parking lot after a few detours on my part. There weren¹t many cars in the lot. We all scrabbled to get our coats and cameras to see the beautiful sight. The air was full of a thick mist from the falls. As we walked down the path you could hear the water¹s sound as it crashed against the rocks below. The sound became bolder and more prevalent. There were hundreds of sea gulls flying overhead. They were soaring through the wet air, calling out to each other, it sounded as if we were at the ocean.

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