Today I woke up so early to take the bus to Yee Hong Centre where we were to meet for our Niagara Falls tour. As we waited for the bus in the morning, we were at the station for 20 minutes before a bus finally came. I was so worried that we would be late and the bus would leave without us. However we arrived like 20 minutes early.
It took us over 2 hours to get to Niagara Falls which was located at the borders of United States and Canada. I fell asleep in the bus and woke up just in time to get off. First off, we went to Niagara on the Lake. I don’t really know what it meant but all I saw was a very small village that sold ice cream and lots of delicious items. I decided to go into one of the ice cream stores to buy ice cream. However I could not find my wallet and I remembered that I left it in my bag on the school bus. Oh my god, I felt so dumb and so I was starving at that moment. We walked around for a bit and then had to leave.
Then we had a tour with some dude wearing a british costume. He was posing as a british soldier and he told us a brief history of the civil war or some war that happened between United States and Britain(or Canada). This was determined whether Ontario would stay as British Territory or be taken by United States. In the end, the british soldiers claimed this land and it became what is now known Canada.
We went to the Butterfly Conservatory for lunch. Our lunch was a piece of pizza and pop. That was definitely not enough for my starving stomach and so I ordered a second slice for $2. Guess what, my slice of pizza was so miniscule and I felt like I was scammed.
After lunch, we went inside the Conservatory and went to watch a short video about the butterflies in the Butterfly Conservatory. The girls were like all screaming as they saw what they say as gross pictures of caterpillars becoming butterflies. I was like this is part of nature and you shouldn’t be scared of it. Then we went inside and “whoosh” we were swept by so many different kinds of butterflies ranging from different sizes, colours and shape. The girls were running like crazy looking for the exit because they could not bear looking at the butterflies for a moment. It cost us $30/person to go inside and they left within 5 minutes of entering the Butterfly Conservatory.
Then we finally went to Niagara Falls. Apparently Niagara Falls is made up of American Falls and Horseshoe Falls. As we parked the school bus for us to get off, I found out that it cost us $40 to unload our bus. That was such a rip-off. We went inside to the gift shop and then a candy shop. After waiting for a while, we finally got our tickets to go see Niagara Falls for ourselves. We had to wear rain ponchos because we would get wet. I was ready for like huge waves of water falling on me but I was disappointed when I came across just breezes of vapour falling on me. Nothing interested me then.
Then we went to watch Niagara Fury, The creation of the falls. It was exciting as it gave us a first person view of how the Niagara Falls emerged. Totally worth your money.
Then we had free time. Many of us ran to Clifton Hills for the arcade. The girls were going for the fudge factory. As we got to the arcade, many of us did not want to pay to play the games which was a huge disappointment. So, we ended up not playing any games. However it was nice to visit a busy street with a lot of different amusements.
We had dinner at CHAKO (Korean BBQ) and it was awesome!!! I ate so many pieces of beef and chicken!
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