CHAPTER SEVEN - WATER, WATER, WATER, WATER, WATER......AND MORE WATER....AND ONE FORMER SHOWGIRL.....AND A COP!
So, for the fourth morning in a row, surprise, surprise, we could not get near the lonely tray of runny scrambled eggs in the concierge room. Nor could we claw our way past the throngs of ravenous zombies to get a bagel, a pastry, or a Fruit Loop.
Starbucks it is! Again!
Ohhh my God, I forgot to tell you guys something that happened yesterday when we went to wine country. Well, actually, when we got
BACK from wine country. When we arrived back at our hotel room, the door was
WIDE OPEN.
What the living hell?!?!?!?!?
I'm serious, it was wide open as if we were having a hall party and had invited the entire floor to attend.
My first thought was that someone had broken in, but nothing was stolen, and all was in order. Apparently, the housekeeping (who we had been tipping generously daily) just forgot to shut the door.
Now, I don't know if any of you have read my opinions of service staff on tipping threads, but I'm a slight bit outspoken and always defend housekeeping, waiters, etc. But this was a little much. For the first time ever, I called the front desk and complained about housekeeping. I mean, the door was wide open. While I don't think there were any bank robbers checked into to Niagara at the Falls, ya never know!
Anyway, remember this, because it comes into play later.
ONWARD!
No concierge breakfast. Starbucks it is!
And while he was waiting for his coffee, Phil found a brochure for a white water rapids adventure in the Falls. He decided we had to go on it, and coincidentally, it was in Lewiston, about 15 minutes away from the Falls and where my old college friend, Annie DeFazio lived with her extremely hunky husband and her two kids.
Annie had all the leads in our college theatre productions and everyone thought she was going to be a star. She even played Mame!
As a matter of fact, she was currently in rehearsals for a production of Hairspray at a professional theatre in Buffalo that was opening the week after we left.
But her big claim to fame is that she got cast as a showgirl in Vegas right after college. I have no idea what the name of this show is, but this is the one she was in. I also have no idea which one of these is her, but she is one of them.
Anyway, she had seen on Facebook that we were going to the Falls, and she'd been nagging me for weeks to meet up.
I had not seen her since college, and it's always a little weird reconnecting with someone you basically knew a lifetime ago, but she kept nagging and nagging and finally I said sure, we'll meet you.
But before this little college reunion, Philmonster and I had some rapids to conquer, so welcome to Lewiston Landing, who's mascot is apparently a fish.
Looks like a nice enough place, although I have no idea what is hanging from the bottom right hand corner of that sign.
We didn't take 30 steps before we passed this:
It was starting to get very fishy around here.
Time for some lunch! Phil had heard about this place called The Silo, because it was featured on Man vs. Food, so of course we had to go. It was right on the water, but it was really just a burger and fries shop. Okay, but nothing spectacular. I think the reason it got on Man vs. Food is because Adam ate 15,000 hamburgers or something.
That's Phil, outside the Silo, excited to be going on white water rapid, but first he did this:
Errr, the Philmonster meant well, but this is actually called the Freedom Crossing Monument and it honors the historical importance of the Niagara River as a gateway to freedom on the Underground Railroad during the mid-19th century, so I hope he wasn't being too disrespectful.
But before we can even think about that, it's time for us to get absolutely soaking wet, and I bought all the pictures......just for you......just for you! They will be in the next post, in just a few minutes.
