Niagara Falls

For Valentines Day I took my S.O. to Niagara Falls. In three months that she's been here, she has visited 8 states and Canada! WOW! In my 30+ years of living in the US I have visited only a handful more than that! Lucky her! We first visited the Canadian Side. We were there for an entire day...then spent 1/2 day on the American side. This is my forth trip to the falls, my first to the American side, upstate NY, and in the dead of Winter. It was SO cold but oh, so much fun. I will let the pictures do the talking......enjoy!

Rainbow to greet us as we walked along the boardwalk on the Canadian Side!

We were so close we could practically reach out and touch the water! But don't reach too far out...you'll end up at the bottom of the falls with 258,000 L per second of water falling on you!

We went up in the the Skylon! Amazing sights and you could still hear the falls! Boy was it windy up there! http://www.skylon.com/ We could see Toronto and it's famous CN Tower off towards the North. Below is Niagra Falls, NY. Yes there is a town with the same name in upstate NY! On the left is the famous Rainbow Bridge which houses a US/Canadian border crossing.

We watched the sunset!

Tomorrow you'll get to experience the US side of the falls!

Hero's Walking Among Us

With all the sadness coming out of many places around the world, it's heartwarming to read stories such as these. Knowing many firefighters personally and working alongside them, I know they would all do the same thing...after all who in their right mind would run INTO a buring building.

Here's the news story....
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/02/12/40_years_worth_of_thanks/?s_campaign=yahoo

'Mom cooks me like a turkey in the oven.....

....I felt fire. It burned my back,' " he read. "'She hurts me with a screwdriver all the time.'"

Reyna Valentino, 40, a mother of five, faces life in prison on allegations that she burned her 4-year-old daughter in an oven, used a hot nail or screwdriver to singe her eyelids and beat her 5-year-old daughter's leg with a pry bar


What things to appear in public are much different than what they really are. I never will understand how people could do this to others, nevermind their own kids. Some people are not fit to be parents:
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090206/METRO/902060381/1409/METRO

Would you classify Ms. Suleman the single, unemployed "mother" of the recently born octuplets as a child abuser. I do! She seriously has NO business bringing more kids into the world.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090206/ap_on_re_us/octuplets