NIAGARA FALLS

On the 1/11/07 at 6am we were up cleaning getting ready for the trip to Niagara falls, packing mostly everything we owned well… ok not quite but since I was the trying to stuff everything in the car it seemed like that!
Then since I found out (after a lot of the packing was done) that we would be staying in a hotel that we didn’t need so much stuff, some had to be unpacked again! Then a finial mop of the floor, should the land agent come while we were away, and we were off ! We stopped of at uconn to get some paper work so that if we wanted we could go over to Canada!
That took a while, and since there was no car park Mum had to keep driving round and round, took a wrong turn and got lost , managed to find our way back, and picked up Dad who thankfully had the paper work! By then it was 12am but no one wanted to hang around eating lunch so we ate as we drove!
We drove and we drove! To give you a bit of a taste of what it was like
Let me tell you it was an 8 hour drive there but with countless toll booths and stretch of the legs stops and stopping at AAA, it was probably more like 10 hours there! We were so excited about staying the night in New York state,( Niagara falls is in New York State) Because we had never stayed in a hotel before! The Hotel was called Royal Hotel, and Dad had said before we had left to put our togs in just in case they had a heated swimming pool !
Well were we in for a shock! We arrived at our hotel to see a lovely flash looking hotel only to find we were looking on the wrong side of the road!
Now this was what ( us kids and I think Mum to) thought we would see!
Big sky scraper, with men at the door to take our bags and things like that well I don’t know why we thought that as I don’t think our family would ever go in one of those but that’s what was in our minds! This is what it really was!
A row of houses that looked like they were made from garages, inside the light was all bent, a draw was a smashed off, picture not even properly in the frame, rubbish stuffed behind the TV, floor went up and down so much when you walked that we thought it was on wheels! But no just another lovely part of staying in a Royal Hotel! The only drinking water was the stuff that came out of the bath or the hand basin! Unpacked and had tea, heater was not working in one of the rooms ( we had rented two room) so we couldn’t go to bed till the man had come and do something to it, but he was at a meeting and we had no idea when he would be back! So we went to see the Niagara falls in the night because Mum had read that they lit them up at night till 12pm! To be continued