Good Friday in Niagara Falls

Here's a few photos of me from today. Started out with a quick trip to the US, and by quick trip, I am really being ironic! There was the longest lineup I've ever seen to cross into the states. It was approximately a 1.5 hour wait to cross over. Somehow, I wasn't able to find border wait times (CBSA's site was N/A), which is kind of too bad! However, the trip was a success, and I was able to get what I was looking for :)

After a nice dinner with the family, we headed down to Clifton Hill and rode the SkyWheel. This was my first time on a Ferris-wheel. It was fun. Here are a few photos from today (including a dinosaur from what looks like to be a new mini-putt course)...

401 Toronto

Today, I drove from Ottawa to Niagara Falls to spend Easter with the family. I decided to stick to the 401, and even though it was rush hour traffic, I opted to not take the 407. This basically added about an hour to my drive, but it was good, and tried to catch a few photos, here's a photo showing the oncoming traffic!

Patio spaceship or skynet has arrived

Today as I was reading through my RSS feeds, I saw a reference to "skynet" being launched. In the terminator movie, the reference to launching skynet was on April 19th, 2011, which was yesterday. The end of the world should be happening soon. All that being said, I was looking for something different to take a photo of, and went into my back patio/porch and grabbed a shot of this, which looked a little spacelike and I made the correlation with the skynet article that I read today.

One of those days...

Just one of those days. I came home after my gaming night and still felt a bit hungry (I had a donair sub from Centretown pizza). I was looking for some junk food and ended up having some ice cream. There wasn't a lot left in the container, but I guess that's a good thing, cause it meant I didn't eat a lot of it.

Spring growth

As I was walking to my front door, I noticed this in the front yard and had to take a photo. I've been living in this apartment for over 2 years, and each year I notice these tulips popping up. Last year they were cut as soon as the lawn cutting company came in and cut the grass. On an interesting note, yesterday I went for a walk around Dow's Lake and the tulips were just starting to come out of the ground compared (all I could see was some green stuff) to these which are already blooming (at least kind of blooming, they are proud and happy to be out!) These are the first flowers I've seen in the neighborhood. It's nice that they are in my front yard! :)

Dow's Lake is running low

Today I went out for a walk in the neighborhood and decided to walk around Dow's Lake. Surprisingly, the lake kind of felt empty. In the Spring time, the NCC/City drains the canal, try to lower the water, and this affects the water at Dow's Lake. We would think that with the Spring thaw, that the water levels would be up, however in this case the water is quite low. Dow's Lake is not a normal lake as it is a man made lake. Once upon a time it used to be a swamp, and now it's a pleasure space that is used at different times of year, skating in the winter, paddle boat in the summer, has tulips on one side during the tulip festival, etc. As you can see from my photo, the water is quite low...