Our NY vacation -- Maid of the Mist

We headed to the Maid of the Mist the next morning. I have always wanted to go up next to the falls, so I was quite excited. They gave us some blue ponchos this time (Cave of the Winds gave us yellow ones, and shoes remember!).





Jason was excited to take this picture of me putting mine on while it was really windy. I love you too, honey!

It was a sea of blue wherever you were on the boat. The kids look so adorable in them. I think they bring out the blue in their eyes. *smile* Don't worry, Karli was not under there very long. I added the wrong picture. The right one has her face OUT of the blue suffocating poncho...the way it should be...but that is Karli for you.

For some reason Jason loves to gets shots of us "randomly" pointing to fascinating things on vacation. Here is one of my famous poses.

Great shot of Jason and his mom.

Aren't they beautiful?

After this wonderful tour we were stuck at the bottom of the falls because of a power outage in Niagara Falls. Does that make sense to anyone? Yeah, the most powerful falls in the world and we didn't have power for about and hour and a half. So, we played hot potato with one of the girls socks and entertained everyone around us by this fun game for a while. We kept thinking they should have had stairs to get people out in case of an emergency...we found out as we were getting on the elevator there were stairs...they just didn't think anyone would want to have climbed 400 stairs. Seriously, um yeah all of us...we had a lot more to see and it is ONLY 400 stairs.

Note to Niagara Falls...if power goes out and you can only load about 10 people on an elevator at a time every five minutes, and peoples mother-in-laws are getting low sugar and you really don't mind moving the feet God gave you...offer people IF THEY WANT TO...to use the stairs. I would have been first in line, along with all of my kids! At least we got to play hot potato for an hour and a half in front of the most beautiful water fall in the world. I guess that will do! 8-)

See they don't look like it was torture. 8-)