Trip 2

Arriving at Pearson Airport and then driving down the QEW was quite surreal. It was like we had never been away! Our rental house wasn't going to be available for a couple of nights so we were staying in the owners rental apartment in Niagara. I have to say that the area where the apartment was based did border on 'tacky' but we were too tired to really care. Our first task was to try and actually enter the apartment through what was obviously a busted front door....all our bashing of said door eventually brought a resident to our rescue!
The apartment was really nice but the following morning we woke to a real nightmare situation....the bedroom with me, hubby and the then 6 year old was swarming with flying ants!!! They were everywhere; in the beds, the luggage but worst of all my poor kids hair!! Slamming shut the bedroom door we headed to Niagara centre and an available mobile phone network (my mobile only worked in USA so we needed to be near the border!). After a quick call the owner moved us to another apartment and we fell into Perkins for pancakes and coffee!
The kids got to see the Falls, drag me onto the way too high Ferris wheel and managed to cost us a small fortune thanks to Niagara's ridiculous hike up of prices (they must see us tourists coming!!). Eventually we moved into the house and it really was clean and spacious. We spent the rest of the trip exploring the usual tourist traps...Canada Wonderland, Toronto zoo, Kitchener as well as meeting up with family who we hadn't seen for years.........