Long weekend..

Typically in Canada, we have one long weekend in every month of the summer - our excuse to relax, meet with family and friends and enjoy. My family has never used any of these long weekends, except as an excuse to laze at home, and enjoy the fact that we have a 4 day work week :).

Contrastingly, this year it feels like we have used almost all those long weekends - very eventful, I think. Today mark's the end of another long weekend for us - we have one more to go before the acadmeic year sets in. This weekend, we had family visiting, went out to lunch, dinner (constantly and that's surprising for me, since I prefer to eat at home), and we even went to Niagara Falls.

Now, to out of state/country visitors, the Falls are a once-in-a-lifetime setting. For people who live in Canada, especially Ontario, it feels like our only claim to fame..sometimes. Everyone who visits us invariably wants to go see the Falls, so we have been there..quite a few times. However, we din't go to the Falls in the past two years almost, so this visit was quite refreshing..and of course, couldnt resist a few pictures. Since I was the lone photographer in my family :), here are the best shots - aaahh...frameworthy, dont you think?

The Falls on the American side:

The Canadian side of the Falls (the entire horseshoe):
The Falls - both sections together - gorgeous isn't it?
Of course, can't resist ending this with another picture of the Canadian side - look, I even managed to catch a bird mid-flight :)