Canada, Ottawa & Niagara Falls

Hi All,

Wow it's been a while since I last wrote and so much has happened I don't know where to start. By now Sarah and Meli would be off on their tropical cruise and Caroline and Jill would be commencing their world trip, I’m so excited for them all.

I think that in my last email I began mentioning Canada. Canada was particularly special for Jacky because he was visiting his relatives. We had terrific fun and his cousins especially the younger boys became very attached to us.

We took two family road trips where the 9 of us packed ourselves into a 7 seater car and drove up to Ottawa (Canada’s capital) and Niagara Falls. One word to describe both places is freezing!! You pack on so many clothes you feel like a marshmallow.

Niagara Falls is huge and separated into two sides, the sprays of water was so powerful that it came down like rain and drenched us all, this provided us with many great laughs and great photos. The 'city' part of Niagara Falls looks and feels very much like Cavill Ave in Surfers Paradise with it wax museums, Ripley’s, haunted houses and casinos. Canada proved very special to us, during our stay it hadn't really snowed and we were slightly disappointed. However it started snowing on the night of Christmas Eve and we ran out into the snow.  We woke up the next morning with our surroundings all white and we celebrated our first white Christmas together.

Our month in Canada eventually came to an end, we were extremely sad to leave. Jacky's cousins left us with hand made presents and cards. The girls were even teary making him promise hat he would come back again. Next stop New York......  

                                                            Niagara Falls