OK! OK! I'm blogging! I'm blogging!

Hi guys – we were off having adventures and I haven’t have a moment to stop and write until now. Little did I know that my humble blog was regular reading material until I got yelled at by friends and relatives alike for my lack of posts! My bad! I'm so glad you guys are having fun reading our updates, and as a reward for your patience, I will be doing a double dose of blogging tonight and will cram this puppy chock full of pics. First, I must post the promised pictures of Niagara Falls … see if you find Roxie as fascinating as our 10,000 Japanese tourist friends.


Here's Roxie and DJ enjoying the Maid O' the Mist. Note the handsome blue ponchos that we were asked to wear, which were pretty much a dry cleaning bag with a hood glued on. Although they did give us a child size one for Roxie, we erred on the side of non-suffocation, and kept her in her little pink raincoat.

You can see just how beautiful the weather was from the pic below. When your lips are blue, you know you're having fun. See how the wind is whipping my poncho around in a jolly fashion?

Our reward for braving the rain was this purty rainbow over the American Falls. It really set off the handsome colors in the many ponchos.

Below is a picture from DJ's favorite part of the day. It was when he got to take off his perfectly dry hiking boots and socks in a damp and humid public place and put on his free foam safety sandals so that he could walk down slippery wooden decking directly next to the waterfall in 50 degree weather in what amounted to bare feet. They call this the Cave of the Winds tour. Between these shoes and the suffocation-dry-cleaning-bag ponchos, we've never felt safer.

Roxie P, as usual, found this whole experience to be hilarious and fun. Holy crap, she is such a good baby!

Those are some of the highlights, but as anyone who knows DJ knows, there are literally hundreds of thousands of additional pictures of Niagara Falls available on his hard drive from this day of our trip. We will no doubt send a link to these at some point, which you can delete at your leisure. Also available for your enjoyment is a shaky handheld video of the ENTIRE Maid O' the Mist experience, from the time we left the dock until we were back on land. Why go to Niagara yourselves when you can see what DJ saw? Why indeed. :)

Ok-- that's post #1. Post #2 from Boston is above!