Great Wolf Lodge in Spring 2007

    As I reported back in March, my wife and I went to the Great Wolf Lodge in Niagara Falls for our 10th Anniversary. We had been several times before with the kids, but had never been there before as a couple. If you haven’t been able to tell from previous postings, we love the Great…

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      Niagara International Kite Festival

      The Niagara International Kite Festival will be held in Niagara Falls, NY from September 27 to 30. Kite flyers from all over the world, including world record holder Ray Bethell are coming. The site has a nice photo gallery, history section, and videos.

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        Geocaching Niagara Falls

        Geocaching is a scavenger hunt where you use a GPS to find a “treasure” at a location. In some cases, you actually get to take something away with you. In other cases, you just take a picture of yourself at the location to prove that you were there (a virtual cache). The Geocaching web site…

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          Tourist Traps: Niagara Falls’ Clifton Hill

          Jaunted bills itself as The Pop Culture Travel Guide. This week a short blog post with a video was posted of Clifton Hill talking about how it is a trap. Even thought this was just posted, the video is from a couple of years ago. The Niagara Falls tag on the Jaunted site also has…

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            Marineland Topple Tower video

            As has been reported several times, the HUSS Topple Tower ride at Marineland is finally open. For comparison, it took about a year and a half to get the Topple Tower built and running, and it only took about 8 months to put up the Niagara SkyWheel. I popped by Marineland on Saturday. The park…

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              More fireworks from the big Pizza Pizza show

              I’ve already posted the pictures and video I took of the fireworks display that Pizza Pizza sponsored. Chris (a contributor to the Niagara Falls Blog) has posted some of his pictures in a nice gallery that uses Flash.

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                The slow road to Niagara Falls

                From the Niagara Falls Review: It was bumper to bumper traffic at Niagara border crossings over the weekend as motorists made a mass exodus south of the border. A holiday weekend typically results in a backlog at the bridges – and there was no reprieve for drivers this time. In some instances, drivers trapped in…

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                  Beautiful weather on the weekend

                  This past weekend was beautiful! It was kind of hot, but the sky was clear and blue. While I was out and around on Saturday, I was by Clifton Hill and Marineland (to take a video of the Topple Tower which I’ll post tomorrow. Here are a couple of pictures that show you how great…

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                    13th Annual Wheel World Car & Bike Exhibition

                    From November 2 – 4, the Skylon Tower will host the 13th Annual Wheel World Car & Bike Exhibition. It will be on the plaza level, the level that is almost always closed. I’ll try to make it over to see what the area looks like.

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