Hello! Beautiful Niagara Falls

I was lucky enough to be sent by my company to go to COM2012, a mining and metallurgy conference in Niagara Falls that happened in the beginning of October. 

The conference was held at the beautiful Sheraton at Niagara Falls and the conference level had a gorgeous view of the falls.

Now tell me that's not pretty 

I got a chance to walk around on the first night of my conference and see the night views. They shoot lights at the water from the Canadian side and the falls seems to have a magical quality to it.

   

  

Here is a close up view of the water:

 

Looks like it's a scene from a movie

Here's the same picture without the lights, not as impressive, but still quite nice.

I walked around the touristy area after looking for something interesting to do. Clifton hill, which is the tourist area adjacent to the falls had quite a bit of haunted houses for tourists but I felt too old / local to really enjoy any of it.

Typical touristy stuff. 

There was even a Ripley's Believe it or not and I quite liked how the building was shaped :)

Notice that it's on its side?

The view from my room at night was really pretty too. With the way the hotel is located, you either get a view of the falls or a view of the tourist area. I had a "City view" room and the lights at night did not look half bad :). 

View from my room. Not bad eh?

I've wanted to do a long exposure time with a Ferris wheel for a while and I finally got my chance.

Since most of my meals were taken care off, I had very few opportunities to try the local cuisine. Though I did find an indian place down the alley from Dave and Busters. I got the lamb biriyani and it was quite good for a touristy place. They even added raisins to the dish and I've never had that before. I was the only customer eating there for the first 45 minutes before someone else came in. I'd like to think that I helped them draw in more customers that day :)

Mm..something that's not fries :)

On my last day, I ended up wandering over to the Crowne Plaza during lunch which is connected to the Sheraton and took some pictures there as well. I just loved the way everything seemed so grande and pretty in the lobby.

A reflection off the piano.

The casino is in between the two hotels and I got to go into a casino for the first time in my life! Not as interesting or as impressive as I thought it'd be. Just really loud, and lonely-feeling?

They give you a stamp when you go in, took me a while to wash it off.

 So I hoped you enjoyed viewing my adventures in Niagara and I apologize for my absence for the last little while. I'll will try to do more posts in the future :). Have a great weekend :D!