May 2007

From Chicago we flew to Buffalo and bypassed this sleepy town directly for Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada.
The hostel we were staying in happened to be in the deserted part of town, I'm pretty sure they all turn into vampires at night.

We went and saw the falls the next day - they were watery and fally (leon: they were a magnificent wonder). we also travelled behind the falls on a waste of money journey ending in a small tunnel of white. Unfortunately we missed the maiden of the mist by one friggin week but we'll survive.

Niagara Falls is like a sleepy country town with a giant waterfall and a Vegas Strip of hotels and casinos. On our second night we went on a pub crawl ending in the pub that all the underage americans come to get drunk in and were all reminded of bad yr 11 socials.

From Niagara we took the bus to Toronto. Toronto was a fun town we chilled out a bit here, saw some cheap movies and got to cook our own food finally. We saw the CN tower but decided it was too expensive to go up. We walked to the Shoe museum and the Royal Ontario museum but decided it was too expensive to go in. All the same Toronto was good.

We also met up with some Canadians that we met in LA - who we went to Disneyland with. They very kindly took us all round a few suburbs and Downtown, they even invited us to their brother's birthday dinner! - Thanks Gordana and Jason!
This is a photo of woods and the Canadians outside a bar called woody's which is in the Gay district of Toronto and was featured in Queer as Folk - exciting stuff.

After 40 degree heat in Mexico we arrived in Chicago freezing our buts off in summer skirts and thongs. The windy city certainly lived up to its name - cold foggy and raining (though Woods informs me, its actually called the windy city due to its long winded politicians - we're so educational), we didn't actually see the tops of the buildings for at least 3 days.

Chicago itself is actually a really beautifull city and reminded us alot of good old Melbourne. The people were nice, we saw some of its famous blues and jazz clubs and the city's art and culture scene were pretty good too.

Charlie had her birthday here and we went on an adventure to some of the posh-o suburbs of Chicago like Lincoln Park and Oak Park (where Frank Lloyd Wright lived and designed many of the houses whilst having affairs with the female owners).

We also headed down to the pier for some ice-cream and a ferris wheel ride which leon suffered through poor soul.