After a chilled first day, I woke up at 5am to the sound of bullfrogs and trains. Ahh, the camping life…
As I headed to the toilet, dodging every bullfrog I that I couldn’t see, I looked across the lake and saw the most beautiful sunrise with some mist eerily creeping along it. That was the moment I thought, wow I’m actually in America…
sunrise at finger lakes
Noisy bullfrogs and sunrises aside, today was the day I could tick off something else on my bucket list – Niagara Falls! Once everyone had swiftly packed up their tents (me and Polly woke up first so we didn’t have to take ours down, score!), and had breakfast, we packed up all our stuff and got into the van for a long drive to the Falls. Along the way we discovered that we would be in small groups and would have chores to do on the trip such as DJing, van cleaning, cooking and washing up. I was paired with Matty and Marc. We also handed over our food kitty money for the first half of the trip – it was so much easier handing it over in one go, rather than dishing out $10 a day!
top: toronto, bottom: rainbow on the falls
With Luke Bryan’s Country Girl blasting out (soon to become a trek favourite), we all seemed a lot chattier today and couldn’t wait to arrive at Niagara! As soon as we got there Steve took us to Horseshoe Falls before having some lunch. Then it was onto the Maid of the Mist cruise (with some elegant big blue ponchos to match). The views up close on the cruise were incredible, and it was amazing to see the Canadian side of the Falls – all of the buildings looked so futuristic and so different from New York!
the girls after the maid in the mist cruise
After getting a tad wet on the cruise (which I would really recommend), we then all walked up to the observation pier, where we took plenty of selfies and got to see the Falls from a different angle.
closer view of the falls
Once we were all selfied out, we said goodbye to Niagara Falls and headed to Walmart. Ahh Walmart… You could literally get lost in that store and possibly never find a way out for days. Me, Marc and Matty were the first one’s chosen to cook so we decided on something simple – fajitas! After we picked up everything that we needed, we then headed to our next campsite, Geneva State Park in Lake Erie!
That night was another quiet and chilled one – we all had some gorgeous teriyaki burgers and tried to light a fire for smores. Unfortunately, it wasn’t going our way so we decided to go to bed, all excited for tomorrow where we would hit Cedar Point!
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