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| A perfect day to be at Niagara Falls: can't tell the precipitation from the Falls' Mist! |
The thirty minutes I spent in the shower Thursday night sobbing like a ten-year-old girl who just found out she didn't get invited to the popular girl's sleepover should be reasonable enough of a display that Mark & I were in desperate need of a break. And we took one this Labor Day weekend. Mark had 3 days off and I had 4, so we figured we could get away, and still have a day to do nothing (Monday) and a day for me to get all the chores done (Tuesday).
So we left early Saturday morning for Niagara Falls, where, if you may recall, I did my internship; and then over to Rochester for the night, only to check out the sites of Palmyra and head on home Sunday. It was a nice trip. A lot of firsts for Mark: Canada, New York, the Falls, Palmyra. I had a slight sense of "been there, done that" but it was nice to be together for a solid 2 days, I'm gonna miss him come Tuesday when I drop him off to work, I'm sure. We did and saw a few things I'd never done before and most importantly, I kinda got a better understanding of why Niagara feels like such a romantic place: you can kiss whenever you want and there's so many people and cultures there, that no one will think a thing of it. That was fun.
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| Mark at the Falls. HE'S SO HANDSOME! |
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| This was something Mark was really excited to see and (surprising to me) really surprised that no one else around us knew what the big deal was. This is a statue of the inventor Nikola Tesla. |
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| This 200-year-old Black Honey Locust is the biggest I have ever seen. It was planted for Alvin Smith, Joseph's oldest brother, when he died. |
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| I like this picture of me. It was taken at a place in Niagara I had never stopped before: a park with a monument for a general named Brock, who died just before the war of 1812 started...why is there a monument for him? We couldn't figure that out. |
And this tree, I've seen it before, can't remember what it is...Alder? I think so. Well, I wanted a picture of us in front of it. Here we are, in the Sacred Grove.
We definitely had a good time and got some rest. One thing I've noticed as I'm opening this blog and looking at pictures from January, Mark and I look healthier. That's very very happy news. Yay! healthy, skinnier, and best of all: EMPLOYED! We may be tired, but it's for good reason and I'm glad.
