Saturday: Headed to Buffalo, New York. Niagara falls is EPIC, and if you're en route through Buffalo yourself, take the detour if you can. It's worth it. (I did the Cave of the Winds tour [up close to part of the waterfall on a bridge,] and the Maid of the Mist tour [boat ride around the falls area.]) For dinner, we went to a REALLY good Asian restaurant called Papaya's. They had great and unique food (banana spring rolls with ice cream are a surprisingly good dessert, simmering duck was very tasty, etc.,) and I honestly say the experience kicked off my vacation well.

Sunday: Continued into Canada. Ran into a little gas station debacle; namely, in Canada a lot of the role gas stations play in America are replaced with highwayside "service stations." Apparently in the province we were moving through, they'd all been closed for renovations. After a short detour where we frantically scrambled for a private gas station to go to, we found one, filled from there in spite of the costs, and got EPIC cherry turnovers from the store near it. We arrive at our location, Mount Tremblanc, later in the day. We unpack, and much to my chagrin I doscovered that the internet-enabled television had its internet turned off. [darthvadervoice]NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO![/darthvadervoice]

Monday: We look around the resort, get lunch from a restaurant with some New Orleans-style cooking (I got an item called "Voodoo Stew:" Basically gumbo+all the spices they could find in the kitchen. My kind of meal to an M. ,) and take a swim in the pool area. I had a very strange idea for a "Pool Fighter" game: Basically a 3D version of Street Fighter...except in a pool. With splashes as attacks. Yeah. Very strange, but then again, I can get rather strange as well...

Tuesday: I do the luge (think a momentum-propelled go-cart,) go up on a gondola lift to the top of the mountain, and see a live falconry show. Namely, we got to see lots of birds of prey, including a kestrel (the smallest bird of prey in north america,) the horned owl (which has no horns and no ears, just tufts that look like them,) the black vulture (really more majestic-looking than they sound,) and the bald eagle (woot!)

A panoramic view of the resort gave me a few ideas for the topography of the island my RPG Contest 19 entry will take place in...you'll have to see that when the time comes, though...

Wednesday: Rain occurred earlier today. As in "HEAVY rain." We managed to hike through it to see a hiking path with a lot of streams and waterfalls. Really cool. We got lunch, this time from a pastry place (we split three quiches among four people and some desserts,) and then shortly after that we headed back. It's dried up as of 4:15 PM here...and I FINALLY have managed to negotiate a method of borrowing mom's laptop to post from here in Canada.

The second half will come when the vacation's finished. (Yay for Premier Membership priveleges coinciding with my vacation!)

Neya Out.