Focht Family Blog

Saturday and Sunday were spent at the campground. Monday morning I took mom into the hospital because she doesn’t trust how she feels anymore. She wasn’t feeling 100% better so she wanted to make sure she shouldn’t be on more antibiotics. This time she was fine. I took the laundry with us and we tried to find a laundromat on the way home. When we finally found one, it was 5:30 and they were closed. The campground has a laundry room but it only has one washer and one dryer. So we came home and did the laundry here. I finally went to bed around 10:00. Mom said she would finish with the drying. She finally made it back to the campsite at 11:30! The dryer doesn’t work very well so although we only had 4 washers full, I think we ran the dryer 6 or 7 times.

Tuesday we went to Niagara Falls with Nathan’s parents. We went through the same fun getting into Canada except this time we were standing outside and it was raining and they wouldn’t let us stand by the door while they were inside. When we finally were parked it was almost noon. We wanted to do the Journey Behind the Falls and Maid of the Mist. The bus from the parking lot left us near Journey so we went there first. Here are the kids in the beautiful yellow plastic coverings they gave us to keep dry.

The first part of the tunnels have two spots that you can see behind the falls. Not much of a view…

The other part is a viewing platform next to the falls where I took a few pictures. We didn’t stay long… the kids were not enjoying getting wet. :)

After the Journey we started walking towards Maid of the Mist and stopped for lunch. Josh decided sleep sounded better than eating. While I was getting the food he took a nap. He didn’t wake up until about 30 minutes after lunch was over.

While we were eating lunch we realized it was getting colder outside and decided that it wasn’t a good day for Maid of the Mist. We decided we would come back in July and do the Maid of the Mist. So we walked up the hill and went on the Skywheel. It is an enclosed air conditioned Ferris wheel. While walking Samantha found some pretty flowers and we also found a very interesting colored squirrel.

After the Skywheel we headed back to the shuttle so we could meet Nathan’s older sister, Vicki, for dinner. I took a few more pictures before getting on the bus. This is a picture of a ship that has been stuck for MANY years. I can’t remember what year the bus driver said but I think it was in the early 1900’s. The other picture is where the water starts going over the falls.

Unfortunately I did not get to enjoy the meal with Vicki. I had the worst headache I have ever had and went to the hospital. I knew I was coming down with a sinus infection and they gave me some phenergan and sent me on my way. They said it would help with the headache. They did a CT scan but not far enough to see the sinuses so they dismissed the sinus pain. The next day Nathan took me to an Urgent Care center and they gave me some stronger decongestants and some antibiotics. Hopefully the sinus pain with start going away now.

Tonight we are finally getting around to having mom’s birthday dinner so I will update with pictures of her cake.