North to Brother's Home & Niagara Falls

We left our sister's home outside Norwich, NY and drove to our brother Steve and Karen's home in Auburn, NY. Their home is in the country but on a main road.

Brother Steve is a collector of old radios and radio repair parts. He sells old vacuum tubes and old antique radios on the Internet for a hobby. As you can see in the picture of his "Man Cave" as Karen, his wife, states.

I think my brother is an electrical genius and has been since he was a kid.

We walked around his property and Daeng liked the swing in the old Walnut tree.

We visited with for a while at heir home and then took a little ride to Skaneateles and Skaneateles Lake.

We ate at the Sherwood Inn and took a little walk around the north end of the lake. It was a beautiful day.

Great food and it was nice to have Steve and Karen meet Daeng.

Well, Daeng wanted to do two things on this trip. The first was to see Niagara Falls so we said good-bye and drove to the falls. It took about three hours and was dark when we arrived. We checked into the DAYS INN at the falls and called it a night.

We got up around 8:30 AM and walked over to the falls. It is a National Park soyou can walk right up to the falls. We did buy a special set of tickets to go on "Maid of the Mist", boat that go right up to the falls.

That ride is pretty spectacular. You get wet and the roar is so loud that you can't hear each other talking.

We did not bring our passports so we had to stay on the America side of the falls but the boat did go right up to the Canada Horseshoe Falls.

I had seen the falls many times crossing over the bridge but to be that close this mighty power was awesome.

We spent six hours at the falls and agreed to go back to the hotel and dry out.

Tomorrow it is onward to our sister and brother, Sylvana and Rick's home.