My video of the week is usually done on Wednesday, but as I mentioned, this week is a little different. There are actually 2 videos this week. Both of them are of the Butterfly Conservatory. This is one of the few attractions that I’ve never been to, but I hope to correct that this year….
From the Niagara Falls Review: Tourists watched with keen interest as the cement trucks kept arriving and the concrete continued to be poured into a giant hole Wednesday on Fallsview Boulevard. Construction workers were busy pouring the foundation for the expansion of the Hilton Niagara that will be 58 storeys. “Everything has been going great,”…
From the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle: The weather outside was frightful earlier this month when we ventured up to Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada, with blowing snow and single-digit temperatures. But inside the Americana Conference Resort and Spa, it was a balmy 84 degrees. Americana’s Waves Indoor Water Park, opened in 2004, was the first…
I am on vacation this week, and so will not be around the main tourist area much for the rest of the week. I’ve posted what I can, but probably won’t have many more posts the rest of the week, unless there are some news stories online. I also will probably be able to post…
On Friday I received the latest newsletter from the Great Wolf Lodge in Niagara Falls. They will be celebrating their first anniversary: You can sign up for the mailings by visiting the Email Signup page on the Great Wolf Lodge Niagara Falls web site.
This isn’t terribly exciting, but I thought I’d pass along that one of the retail stores on Victoria Avenue (beside the new Little Caesars) has a new sign up and the store is called Canadian Memories. I’m not sure how long it has had this name, but it wasn’t there last Fall.
I’ve heard quite a bit of news stories lately about Starbucks, and how in China they are setting up shop in areas that many people don’t like. They even have a location inside the Forbidden City. It made me think about Niagara Falls and leads me to this week’s question: What is the biggest eyesore…
The work seems to be moving along quickly at the corner of Fallsview Blvd and Murray Hill where the Hilton is expanding. They’ve dug down a couple of stories, and now are preparing the foundation. That’s a lot of rebar!
The store where Circus World used to be located on Victoria Avenue has been divided in half and now one half has a small store in it. It doesn’t seem like anything too special.
(oops, I had this ready but forgot to post it yesterday…) Continuing with the post from yesterday, the Friday image gallery is of the Skylon Tower Fun Centre. I was in there last week and took some pictures. As usual, there were almost no people in that huge space. Anyway, I took a few pictures…