Wednesday, January 30, 2013

50. Go to Niagara Falls

Sorry I was missing from the blog, but I have a good excuse... I was in Canada!!! I have been busy trying to catch up on my 101 in 1001 days list. This past weekend I went to Niagara Falls for the Ice Wine Festival. It was a blast! I traveled with a girlfriend, April, and over and over we kept saying how nice Canadians were. We also received soo much free stuff. Free food, free wine, seriously such really nice people. We wanted to move there! :D Below are some pictures from the weekend, enjoy!

This was the view of Niagara Falls from our hotel room. We had an awesome view from our fallsview room. We were upgraded to a high floor in the Niagara Falls Marriott Fallsview Hotel and Spa. If you ever go there, definitely check out the packages because they were only about $50 more than the price of a room (per night) and you get daily breakfast, a wine tour, wine samples at two different wineries and a dinner credit at the restaurant at the hotel!

The first night we checked in we thought we missed all the fireworks that they had over the falls, but lucky us, they still had them for one more night! I got to check off one more item from my 101 in 1001 days list!

54. Watch fireworks - DONE!

We were busy over the weekend going to nine wineries/vineyards on Saturday and twelve wineries/vineyards on Sunday (send me a message if you want the list, I'd be happy to share). We also visited a chocolate factory and did a tour of a winery on Sunday. It was a busy weekend! I was able to acquire the pictured regular wines, late harvest wines and ice wines in the picture. Want to know the difference between a late harvest and an ice wine? Here is a good explanation.


Where have you traveled to lately? Any trips out of the country coming up soon? Do you like sweet wines? Have you had late harvest or ice wine before?

4 comments:

  1. Great post. You are right in everything you say about Niagara Falls; it truly is a wonderful place. My family and I have been there a few times and always had a good time. After reading this post I really want to go to some of the surrounding wineries. The hotels are great and there is even an indoor water park at Niagara Falls as well.

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    1. The wineries are great and the people are so friendly. I recommend if you want to try a couple of wineries to go during one of the festivals. They have a couple of them througout the year. The link I posted above has all the information. The wineries are all relatively close together too which makes them very easy to get around to. During the winter the majority of them are only open from 11am to 5pm, but during the summer they are open longer hours so you could get around to more each day!

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  2. I visited Niagara Falls last year and it was most memorable trip for us. we also stayed in the same Marriott Gateway on the Falls hotel, they provide really good accommodation services to us.

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    1. I'm glad you had a great time. It seems like everyone I have "talked" to has had nothing but great experiences when they visted!

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