So, somewhat hilari-fully, the below paragraph is the entirety of what I wrote (or at least that I can found) about a weekend trip I took to Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada with my parents a few months after I moved to Rochester:
“My parents came out to visit for a few days a couple of months after we’d moved out to Rochester. They actually picked the last nice weekend of the year, so I suppose I have them to thank for bringing the nice weather! During their trip out, I went with them for a quick weekend over to Niagara Falls, and Niagara-on-the-Lake.”So, of course, this is EIGHT YEARS AGO hahahaha enjoy the ongoing theme (I swear I am currently writing up trips, at least a couple, figuring out how photos can go from Google Photos back to my computer and then to zenfolio, and heaven only knows what will happen in the future when I want another system…perhaps I will just pay them literally for the rest of my life. It’s possible.)
Anyways, it was perfectly pleasant. I got to see Niagara Falls from the Canadian side, which was everything one would hope it would be, not to mention all the delightful tourist kitsch to be found. We failed to visit any casinos however, which is probably Just Fine.
The town of Niagara-on-the-Lake is like Disneyland for middle aged+ reasonably well off white people, as far as I can tell. They have a theater festival (the Shaw Festival) that runs for six months of the year, and seemingly every other building there is a bed and breakfast. There are also a very large quantity of wineries in the immediate area. However, it’s a pretty cool region, with Lake Ontario immediately to the north and the Niagara River immediately to the east, so it’s in a literal square corner of Canada.
Being there in 2012, we saw signs telling us it was the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812, which after some very quick math made me go “…oh, yes, I guess it is”. The Niagara River area turns out to have been the Actual Frontier that was of interest during the war (well, at least one of them), and the nearby Fort George was an enjoyable site to visit.
