Road Trip to Niagara Falls
Jason has a whole lot more free time now that he’s finished up a contract position. Yesterday we decided to take advantage of his new found time by taking a mini road trip to Niagara Falls. We left Toronto around noon and drove to the Falls. We found some parking on a tourist strip and started wandering around. The souvenirs are ridiculous, tacky, and often just not aesthetically pleasing. This only serves to make them even more fun to look at. So we bummed around looking at trinkets while waiting for our friend Marty and his lady friend to meet up with us.
We decided to go into one of the eighteen million wax museums as it was only $5 to get in that day. So off to the House of Criminals it was! I’m not sure what’s up with wax figures, but the majority are laughably poor quality for the claims made that they are ‘life-like’ and ‘replicas of people’. Again, it only made it more fun for us!
Wait a minute, they never caught Jack The Ripper, so how can they know what he looks like? Oh, I get it… They covered his face with his sleeve so that it doesn’t matter (as much) that they don’t know what he looks like. I guess its a good way to repurpose old models?
That’s not Johnny Depp! Erm…
Jason hates clowns so I had to get this picture. He looks like he’s about to kill me, a strange expression for someone in a house of murderers.
We didn’t quite understand this sign. “Her fetish for blood and her gruesome deeds inspired One of Braum Stoker’s DRACULA.” One of? Shouldn’t the sentence then read ‘one of [his] Dracula novels’.
Anyone else noticed that the clock behind Jeffrey Dahmer’s head has utensils as hands? Fitting for someone who apparently ate some of his victims.
See, Jason really was there!
After the house of wax (which strangely didn’t have Paris Hilton), we met up with our friends. We wandered through the super tourist area and laughed at all the attractions and arcades and tiny little rides. We wandered down to the Falls as Jason had never seen the Canadian side. I was a bit bummed because I feel like all the tourist noise takes away from how majestic the Falls really are. In my head they would be better in a much more natural setting.
p.s. I know that the Falls is sort of like Canada’s version of Vegas-lite, but do they really need roadside inns called the Tropicana or Bellagio Niagara?
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“I feel like all the tourist noise takes away from how majestic the Falls really are.” Hehe, you were a tourist.
I complain like that too. This would be better without tourists… but wait, I’M a tourist!
Haha, it wasn’t that the tourists themselves where the problem. More that all the tourist crap and bright lights and consumer hell was distracting from the natural beauty of the Falls.
I’m not a fan of clowns in general, but clown dolls are waaay worse than clown people…John Wayne Gasy aside… I think they are all creepy.
I used to do make up for my friends and family on halloween and one year, my oldest brother wanted to be a clown. When I asked if he wanted nice clown or scary clown he laughed at me and told me if I could make a clown face scary that was what he wanted.
He actually jumped when he looked in the mirror..haha. then he told me he’s glad he doesn’t have my nightmares.