Up and on our way early this morning. Aunt drove us to the airport. We arrived about 7:00am, which gave us time to check our suitcase, get through security, and grab some breakfast. We were boarding the plane before we knew it.
The flight was smooth and not too long. We landed in Buffalo, NY about 11:16am. My sister and family arrived about 30 minutes behind us.
We boarded the shuttle to the rental car place, and were given twin blue Camry's, although we'd rented Chargers (or similar)(I don't see Camry's and Charger's as similar, but Ryan preferred the Camry anyway, so oh well).
Since we were in town pretty early, we decided to do our Buffalo tour day. We started by visiting the Anchor Bar for lunch, to eat authentic, original Buffalo Wings.
The restaurant was interestingly decorated, but we were seated in a small enclosed-looking porch area of some sort that was crowded with the nine of us stuck into a corner. A bus-person had left a cleaning rag laid on the window ledge and it smelled bad. Later a fellow came and got the rag (leaning over me without so much as an "excuse me") and we saw him cleaning other tables with the smelly rag.
We got our menus and started deciding what we'd eat...I'd already pre-planned on a bucket of Buffalo Wings. Then we noticed that for drinks they served Pint size drinks, with no refills. A place that sells hotwings and doesn't offer drink refills? WTH?
The menu also stated "No Separate Checks", and that an automatic tip of 15% was added to parties of 8 or more.
As a result of this place's greed, we all ordered water to drink, and the waitress got a less of a tip by force than we would have tipped voluntarily.
The food was allright, but the wings were swimming in grease.
Next we visited the Market Arcade building, which we were standing in front of and didn't recognize, the place looked so bad. I was expecting a better kept building advertised as a tourist destination, with the Official Visitor's Center inside.
The Visitor's Center was closed.
Then we tried to visit the City Hall, which looked interesting from the outside, but was also closed.
We found Buffalo dirty and run down and not worth visiting.
We then proceeded on to Niagara Falls, Ontario, and checked into the Embassy Suites hotel.
We opted for the $20/day Valet parking, which wasn't the pain-in-the-neck other travelers complained it to be.
When we booked the room, my brother-in-law and I requested close rooms, and we were put in rooms 3606 and 3608, with a connecting door, which was great. We just left the door open and were able to go back and forth with ease.
Our room had great views of both the falls and the city of Niagara Falls in the bedroom.
The bedroom was nice, with two queen beds, that weren't all that comfortable to me. Husband didn't complain, though, so maybe it was just me.
We had a jacuzzi tub, with shutters that opened so you could look out and see the falls (if you were standing in the tub or very tall).
There was microwave and a small refridgerator. The other room was the livingroom, which was more as a bedroom for us. We spent all our time in the room in the bedroom where we could enjoy the view out the window.
We had arrrived in time for the Managers Reception so we headed off to that. It was in the atrium on the 9th floor. We had tickets for 2 free drinks; 1 per person of a couple. I don't drink so my hubby got 2 drinks. We enjoyed snacks of chips and salsa, carrots/veggies/ranch dip, dried fruit, cheetos, candies, etc.
There was an arcade on this floor, but the games were expensive at $1.00 (or a Looney) each to play.
We explored the indoor pool, and walked outside to a deck/patio area and enoyed some sun for a little while. (We found it rather chilly in Canada, after the temps we're used to in Georgia and Florida.)
Later I took the middle boys to the pool for a swim while the others relaxed in the rooms.
As we were going to bed, all of a sudden we hear a BOOM! and look outside and they are having a fireworks display.
We never did figure out why they had it on Saturday night. The schedule is Fridays, Sundays, and Holidays. Unless they were celebrating Flag Day, a day early, all we could figure was that they planned a special fireworks display just for us! lol.
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