Niagara Falls, Canada Day 2

This morning we got up and headed to the hotel restaurant for a delicious hot, free breakfast. There were eggs, sausage, bacon, pancakes, toast, fruit, pretty much every breakfast food.

After breakfast we walked down the hill and got our first real look at the Niagara Falls. Took the first of all the necessary, obligatory "Pose in front of the Falls" pictures.

We bought our Adventure Passes, and made our way to the Tablerock Center where we started our adventure visiting the "Niagara's Fury" show/ride.
I had read several reviews about this attraction, most of which were bad and down-putting, but we liked it.

First you put on a free, recyclable rain-poncho they give you and go into a theater where you stand and watch a cute little cartoon story talking about how Niagara's Falls were formed. It was interesting and the story was cute.

Next you go into a 4-D theater and grab a post and hang on. Along with telling you how, this story shows you how Niagara Falls was formed. Including rain and storms and avalanches. Exciting!

Next we visited the Journey Behind the Falls. They give you another free rain-poncho and then you go down many feet in an elevator to some tunnels in behind the falls.
Go to the right and you can see some portals open behind the Horseshoe falls. The water thundering down is amazing.

Down the other tunnel, you go out onto a viewing deck right beside the falls. It looks like you can get within just a few feet of the side of the falls. Loud and wet and exciting!

After JBtF we returned to the hotel room and decided to go out and find something for lunch and look for a Walmart. We always like to locate the local Walmarts in case we need anything.

We were using a Nuvi navigator to locate places, but for some reason it didn't show a close-by Walmart, and we ended up going back into New York to go to what we thought was the closest Walmart.
We tried to stop at a Dairy Queen for lunch, not knowing what an "Orange Julius" DQ is/was. Turns out the only food type food they have is hot dogs. No burgers, bbq, chicken, etc.

We ended up stopping at a Taco Bell, where everyone was amused to see they had Taco Bell french fries. Our Taco Bells here don't have fries.

We tried to visit the New York Niagara State Park, but there was a $10 parking fee we didn't want to pay, since we could walk over for nothing (actually there was a .50 toll when you leave Canada).

Later we went back down to the Falls area and rode the People Mover bus out to the bus terminal and back up to the Clifton Hill area, where we would be staying next.

We walked along that area, checking out some stores, taking some pics, and making our way back to the Falls area. The rainbows come out in the evenings so we took rainbow(s)/falls pictures.

Later we got Pizza Hut pizzas and returned to the hotel and ate and the boys went swimming.
There was another fireworks show that night. John walked down to see them from the ground and listen to the band and check out the night-happenings.