Niagara Falls
We were in Niagara Falls for the weekend. Unplanned but necessary. Brian was in Vegas all last week for work and while out one night, someone went into his hotel room and took his laptop bag. In said bag was his work laptop, our good Nikon camera, all the lenses and camera accessories, and his passport. Among other things, sunglasses etc.
So, after Brian researched a few options to get home, boarding his flight on Air Canada was not one of them. However, he was able to fly to Buffalo via United Airlines, take an Uber to the Rainbow bridge and walk across the border to meet us in Niagara Falls. He had his birth certificate and drivers licence so he said walking across was easy.
When life gives you lemon, it is best to make lemonade.
So, we took advantage of Brian's work covering the cost of the hotel, and made a mini vacation out of it. We took the kids to Fallsview Indoor Waterpark.
We got the two day pass and spent many hours enjoying the waterslides. Hadley even did the waterslide that went basically straight down (even after my review of how it was so scary that I didn't want to do it again... she still wanted to do it... and then did it again with Brian)!
For the most part we rode down the slides on two people floating devices. Hadley was got brave enough to do waterslides on her own a few times and even went down the bowl all by herself.
What a great weekend of making memories. We enjoyed beautiful weather walking by the falls, enjoying Hershey's chocolate just plain good family time.
I am thankful that Brian was able to cross the border easily.
Next up... figuring out insurance claims and filling out new passport forms.