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Niagara Falls…part 3

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After the Falls we went to Hershey’s, the largest chocolate manufacturer in North America.  Hershey is one of the oldest chocolate companies in the United States, and an American icon for its chocolate bar.

Then onto Baskin Robins.  Baskin-Robbins is the world’s largest chain of ice cream specialty shops.  It was founded in 1945 by Burt Baskin and Irv Robbins in Glendale, California.  The company is known for its “31 flavors” slogan, with the idea that a customer could have a different flavor every day of any month. The company has introduced more than 1,000 flavors since 1945.

Then onto the park behind the house before we go home…makes the visit worthwhile even more for the crazy trio!  

http://www.hersheys.com

http://www.baskinrobbins.ca

  
    
    
    
    
    
    
   

Niagara Falls…part 1

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These are photos from the famous Clifton Hill in Niagara Falls which is about a 10 minute walk (without stopping at any attraction) from top to bottom, where you then reach the sights of the American Falls.  There is plenty of things to do and eat here and particularly for children this is a blast, unless you unleash your inner child, patience will have to be on the menu as kids want to do everything…at the same time and then repeat as if they had never done it in the first place!

http://www.cliftonhill.com
              

Tomatoe picking in Niagara Falls…Mmmm

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Arrived in Niagara for a short three day trip.  Niagara is a region which is located in southern Ontario, Canada, between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie.  Niagara has a total population of over 427,000.

Nour’s eldest sister Baria lives in Niagara Falls and her house number is 6919, I am sure you would never find numbers to houses in four digits in the UK, it’s crazy as there are no where near that many houses in the neighbourhood never mind the the road, it’s as if they just keep counting!

It was over a two hour journey from Toronto and the kids were fed up, the heat and the traffic.  When we arrived, they liked the house, buzzed off their cousins cool ride driven by Nour and attacked the variety of tomatoes growing in her back garden like little Cornish Seagulls with no hesitation at all…they were happy, very happy!  Can’t wait to visit the famous Falls again tomorrow and  hopefully have time during our short visit this time to visit Niagara on the Lake, a place we first visited during our honeymoon in 2002.
 

  
   
    
    
 

Balsam Lake Provincial Park

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Another visit to a Provincial Park to visit close friends who were camping and were on their last day there.

We call them the ‘Saleh’s’ taken from their surname ‘Saleh’, they have been blessed with four daughters and together are a bit of a crazy bunch.  They camp a lot as their father (Darwish, or Dan) has a love and admirable passion of fishing and has got everything under the sun you can imagine for a successful and adventurous camping trip, to be honest, if the world ended, as long as he had his army knife, fishing rod and his slick boat he would probably be fine (don’t know about the rest of us though!).

Turned out to be another beautiful day and was a very nice campsite with excellent facilities.  The young lady with the fish is Zaynab (or Za Za as they call her, I like to call her the ‘fishinator’) who as you can see has a special relationship with fish that she and her father catch, hard to let go I suppose, a slippy relationship!

Ali Hadi (Rosie’s son) looks proud to show off his catch which he didn’t catch but still makes a nice picture, such an innocent smile!).  Then there is my Maryam who courageously accepted the challenge of holding the fish and still managed to pull of her mesmerising smile, oh and by the way, she wants the world to know that this picture was her last day of being four years old.  Then there is Sara and Fatimah, cheeky little madams, I am sure they were up to something when I as not looking, wouldn’t you agree?

What do you get if you leave a slice of juicy watermelon near Sara…a slice of juicy watermelon that is asking to be attacked…and I have to say, she does a really good job of it!

And that fish that was caught by the fishinator earlier in the day, extremely tasty when barbecued!

Excellent company, sizzling weather, very fishy fish, juicy, scrumptious corn, long drive for one day but a fantastic day nonetheless and definitely worth it!

http://www.ontarioparks.com/park/balsamlake



 
  
  
  
  

Anyone for Poutine…and doughnuts?

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The original plan was to go for a romantic walk with Nour to downtown Toronto without kids to celebrate our thirteenth anniversary, yippee!

However, little did I know that my wife’s nieces, both who are lovely, a little loopy but amazing souls, were also coming along…that’s Fatimah (22) and Sara (15), Fatimah probably thinks that she needs no introduction as the world should already be aware of her existence!

Further to my ignorance, I did not realise that these three lovely ladies had a plan to eat some Poutine.  Poutine is a Canadian dish, originating in the province of Quebec, made with french fries and cheese curds topped with a light brown gravy-like sauce.

In addition to this, my ignorance was compounded by the fact that they were secretly re routing the romantic walk in downtown towards Krispy Kreme (the global American doughnut company).

Oh and by the way the way did I tell you that I also did not expect to get totally drenched in one of many downpours on is beautiful day!
http://smokespoutinerie.com/

http://krispykreme.ca



Nearly there…no idea what lies ahead!

On By mubeenazamIn July 2015, Uncategorized2 Comments

So here it is, my first ever blog, very excited as I have no idea what I am really doing but hope that it will be lots of fun and games along the way!   It is for family, friends, people who like me and those who don’t and those who simply want to know what other human beings are getting up to in their life! Continue reading “Nearly there…no idea what lies ahead!” →