I just wrote to my sister Donna that I haven’t spent any time on this trip working on the book idea which involves studying and writing about the Psalms…  I spend my quiet time studying roads, things to see, landmarks and how to get places, and as you can see from the blog… we have seen a lot! Even with all the studying of materials… I have had a near miss or two… For example, near St Catherine I thought we would be just traveling through and get there late so I had Chuck pull into a Super 8 that AAA said was 2 stars… I thought "save a few bucks; it’s only to sleep in"… I had misgivings almost immediately, the lobby piled on more misgivings, and I asked the girl at the counter if I could see the room… it was such a definite no!!! she had already run Chuck’s credit card so I got a refund and we went out of there.  We got a Comfort Inn in St Catherines and that is where I went to Mass this morning. I just couldn’t even think of sleeping at that Super 8. So like today I picked about 6 wineries and only one was brilliant… the first one. How do you top the best if you get it first? When Tammy was competing in the Olympics this was the problem if the best team went first… the coaches would give them a low score because there were 7 teams to go… well today the first vineyard, called "The Good Earth," was beautiful, had good tasting wine at a affordable price, had a great chef-cooked lunch, in the garden with the owner a wonderful creative lady. Can’t top it. We went across the top of the wine region. If you look at your map it is across the bottom of Lake Ontario to Niagara on the Lake and then you come south on the Niagara River to Niagara Falls. Our hotel might not be the greatest (like the big high rise Embassy Suites overlooking Horse shoe Falls), but I do have a balcony room with a King sized bed on the river. You can’t see the river because the Niagara river is in the bottom of a giant crevasse (where the puma reside)… but it’s nice. We walked to the Falls which are like a wonder of the world. Took a million pictures, got into the mist which is like rain as you walk on the street. It’s about 65 degrees so it was not a welcome mist! Then Chuck said, "let’s take the incline," so up we went. We went up on the Skylon Tower and had dinner in the revolving restaurant (our second bottle of wine in the day)… absolutely amazing. And who is going to look at all these pictures I took as we revolved over the Falls? I guess I started this with… I make decisions to do stuff and who knows how it will turn out. I smelled a lot of lovely roses today and sipped some good wine and saw the wonders of the world (and took their picture). Thank God. I cannot believe it was just this morning that I was lost looking for that little Catholic church for Sunday Mass. Amazing and wonderful. Now I’m looking out at Bridal Veil Falls which the USA colors red white and blue at night. When you get above them, like in the Skylon Tower, they fall from a normal looking river down a cliff about 170 feet (I googled that – it seems like a lot more!!!) Engineers have stopped the erosion a great deal.   Amazing – Thank you God. God bless you!
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