Connecticut Part 2: Road Trip to Buffalo

One of my oldest, and definitely one of my most dearest, friends got married in Buffalo last weekend. So, mom and I took our yearly road trip to Buffalo.

We left CT, realized an hour later mom forgot her passport, which would make it quite difficult to get to Canada, so we turned around. When we finally did get to New York we went to Secret Caverns, which is next to the less rustic Howe Caverns. We went to Howe when I was a kid, so we went to the other one. Other than the waterfall it was sort of a lame cave (and I've been to many.)

After that, to Elmira, where I bought a new Kindle as mine died the true death the night before we left. Not unexpected, its been acting odd for several months. The next day we went to the Corning Glass Museum and made glass!

That's a flower. I also made a fused glass frame and an ornament. The glass museum is cool, but we only spent a bit of time there then drove on to the first of many waterfalls

Chequaga Falls in Montour Falls

Then, to Watkins Glen. I have somewhat of a memory of Watkins Glen from when I was a kid and wanted to see it again. If you ever visit, you want to either park at the top parking lot, or take the shuttle up, so you can walk down the glen, not up. We were smart, but my mom actually remembers all of her trips there :D

Be glad I didn't post more pictures, it's seriously cool.

We stayed in the middle of nowhere that night and then went to Letchworth Falls State Park. We went so early we almost had the entire park to ourselves. It has three large waterfalls.

Lower Falls

Upper Falls

Middle Falls

And then we went to Canada, to visit the Welland Canal, part of the St Lawrence Seaway. The way boats get from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario as there's a big waterfall in the river connecting the two. There's a significant height difference between the two lakes so there's locks.

That is a seriously big ass boat

We finished out the day by spending sometime on the shore of Lake Ontario where this momma squirrel hung out

And then we accidentally drove past the church we went to on that same childhood vacation

So, sort of funny story about this church, or as it's formally known, Our Lady of Fatima Shrine. I remember the statue on top. Mom remembers that it was round, my older brother remembers the ceiling (it has the continents on it.) My little brother remembers nothing.