Daily Archive for August 19th, 2008

It’s a beautiful day! (and a license plate hunt update)

Today is quite a bit cooler out, but it is just gorgeous walking along the parkway. The sun is shining and there are huge, white fluffy clouds. It’s a beautiful day for a walk!

As I’m out walking, I’m still looking around for new license plates. I’ve recently added several new plates to the License Plate Hunt list.

Bridge traffic hit hard

From the Niagara Falls Review:

After spending six days in a car and $400 worth of gas, Bryon Johnson and his wife, Melissa, arrived in Niagara Falls from California.

“A plane ticket would’ve been more, actually, for both of us to fly,” said Melissa, shrugging her shoulders. “We wanted to see the country side,” Bryon added. The long journey across the country and price of gas didn’t bother the Johnsons, but the Associated Press recently reported Americans are driving less…

Niagara Falls border crossings as well as the Peace Bridge have also shown a decline in the number of cars passing from the United States into Canada. The Rainbow Bridge saw a decrease of more than 8,500 cars crossing the border from the United States to Canada during June and July.

The Queenston-Lewiston bridge saw a bit more of a dramatic decrease from numbers in June and July from last year. The number of cars travelling on that bridge in June and July went down this year by about 24,000 cars.

Fallsview Blvd light post decorations

The other day when I was near the corner of Fallsview Blvd and Murray St, I noticed some new decorations on the light posts. There are at least 4 or 5 light posts with these on it.

greeklish.org :: Reminiscences of Niagara

Someone with their own blog posted about a recent trip to Niagara Falls:

On our list of favorite vacation spots and travel destinations, Ontario, Canada is surely in the top three, right along with Greece and San Francisco. For this year’s summer vacation, we went to Niagara Falls, Canada. This visit was our third trip to Niagara Falls and our fourth trip overall to Ontario (we visited Toronto in 2005). Thomai and I first visited Niagara Falls as newlyweds back in 1998 and we had an absolutely great time. We returned in 2001 when K. was about 2 ½ years old and it was another memorable experience. Of course, our trip to Toronto was exceptional, but it was a pretty expensive junket and it wasn’t in the cards (or in the budget) for us to go back this year, although we would have liked to do so. Because Z. had never visited the Falls, we thought this would be a good time share the experience as a family of four.