O Canada!

I continued to add to my list of countries visited with our trip to Canada.

June 12 I flew into Detroit with Jenny (a fellow missionary in Haiti), arriving around 11pm. My family and I spent the night at a hotel there. Wednesday we drove to Canada to visit Niagara Falls and some friends of mine from Haiti. I had thought a vacation would be a nice way to ease back into life in America before starting work. I was a little wrong- I didn't get much sleep during the trip and I ended up coming home with an unpleasant cold. I had a great time though and I'm glad we went!

Wednesday night we visited the falls, took lots of pictures, and scoped out all the contraptions that were set up for the man who was going to walk across the falls. We stayed there until dusk in order to see the water illuminated at night. {Nik Wallenda walked across Niagara Falls on Friday night and we already had tickets to a baseball game that night so unfortunately we didn't get to witness that event.} 

Thursday we returned to the falls to do the activities that tourists do (that is, besides taking pictures). We decided to "Journey Behind the Falls." After paying a ridiculous amount of money for an elevator ride we ended up behind the falls. Looking out from behind the falls there wasn't much to see, except thousands of galloons of rushing water. Who would of thought?! We did get very wet from blowing mist when we stood on the observation deck down near the base of one of the waterfalls. Codi, Collin and I decided that was enough of that type of excitement for the trip; we opted to go mini-golfing the rest of the afternoon. The place we picked to golf at was an 18 hole course, inside, illuminated by black lights. It was quite fun and I gave the boys some competition. However, I lost! Oh well. There's always next time.

Thursday night we traveled to Hamilton to spend some time with the Broersma family- Cornelius, Mindy, Chloe and Joel. Joel is the newest addition to their family. He was born about a month and a half ago in Canada. The Broersma's left Haiti a couple months before I did so this was my chance to see Joel before they returned to Haiti. We hung out with Broersma's Friday and Saturday morning too. 

To read about and view pictures from the rest of our adventure, including our walk and a Toronto Blue Jays game, check out Cornelius and Mindy's blog.