MY TRIP TO CANADA

This is The Niagara Falls in Buffalo, Canada

   A week between New Years 2014 and Christmas, I went to Canada with my aunt, grandma and cousin by car.
   We didn't plan for that trip at all. I was surprised by my aunt. I remember that day, she came to my work and asked me to go Canada at that moment. I thought she was kidding with me because I didn't hear any plans from her before, but she wasn't. She told me to ask my boss to take a couple days off. Then we went home to pack some clothes and left about 3:00 PM.
   We didn't know how to get to Canada, so my aunt had to call her friend to ask for the address. I entered the address in the GPS and off we went.
   After seven hours of driving, she stopped at the gas station to fill gas and bought some foods for dinner. Then she tried to drive four more hours to get to the frontier between USA and Canada to find a hotel which was on the USA side. We checked in the hotel around 2:00 AM. We took a shower and slept until 8:00 AM. We had breakfast at the hotel and started planning then. We wanted to have lunch in China Town in Toronto, Canada first because it was farther than Niagara Falls. Then we would be coming back to Niagara Falls to stay overnight in a hotel and then went leave the next day. We checked out about 10:00 AM. I asked the girl who was a receptionist in the hotel how to get to Toronto and she gave me a map to get there.
   We left the hotel and got to Toronto three hours later. We enjoyed delicious foods in a Vietnamese restaurant, bought some foods and sandwiches to go.

  This is China Town in Toronto, Canada

 My aunt took a picture in the front of Vietnamese restaurant.

 We drove back to Niagara Falls about 3:00 PM. On the way, we ate food and were worried about the hotel. It was  the weekend so we thought people would travel a lot, but we hadn't booked hotel before we went. However, we were so lucky because it didn't take us a long time to find the hotel which is near to the fall.

                                          My grandma and aunt ate food in the car

   After checking, we rushed to go out to see the falls before the sunset. It was so cold when we walked near the fall, but the spectacular view of the fall made us forget  the cold and tiredness. We kept walking toward the end of the fall and took lots of pictures. We stopped at a souvenir shop for tourists and I bought some stuff for my sisters and friends.

I took picture at the fall.

Me and my cousin

My grandma and I

Me and my aunt 

The end of the fall.

   We walked far away from the hotel and all of us were tired so we got back to the hotel by taxi. We ate the sandwiches which we bought from China Town for our dinner. Then we told my grandma to take a shower and rest. My aunt took me and my cousin to the game area to play. That was a long day for us so everyone fell to sleep quickly.
  Next morning, we planned to eat breakfast in Skylon Tower restaurant where they is the best view of Niagara Falls. We made a reservation for 10:00 AM at Skylon, so we needed to check out an hour earlier to get there.

Skylon Tower and Yellow Bug Elevator

Skylon Tower at night.

   We took a funny picture at the photo shop while we were waiting in the line to go up to the Skylon. The Skylon is 775 feet tall above the falls and it takes 52 seconds to reach to the top by "Yellow Bug Elevators". You can see the city skylines of Buffalo, New York and Toronto while you in the elevator.

This funny picture we took at the photo shop

We took this picture in the "Yellow Bug Elevators"

   The Skylon has three floors on the top. On the first floor is a small bar that is only open after 6:00 PM everyday. On the second floor is the restaurant but the time for food service is separated. It has a buffet style from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM and after that it is turned into a dining room and on the third floor is a souvenir shop and the lobby where people can go out to look at around and take pictures.

I  was in the second floor.

My grandma and cousin.

I took this picture at the lobby.

   We left Canada at noon after we had breakfast in Skylon. My aunt drove straight home, stopping only for gas and food. It took us 12 hours to get home, so we got home about 1:00 AM. Everyone was extremely tired but we had a great time together.