{"id":94,"date":"2005-10-09T23:32:51","date_gmt":"2005-10-09T23:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/?p=94"},"modified":"2005-10-10T03:34:27","modified_gmt":"2005-10-10T03:34:27","slug":"niagara-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/2005\/10\/09\/niagara-falls","title":{"rendered":"Niagara Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mary-Anne<\/a>Yesterday, we set off from the Burkhard’s home on our way to Virginia, taking a slight detour to the Niagara Falls. (Look up the geography \ud83d\ude42 ) The weather was terrible; the remnants of tropical storm Tami were dumping their rain on us for hours on end. We reached Albany, where we started looking for a motel. Everything was full! (Now I know how Mary and Joseph must have felt when looking for a place to stay in Bethlehem.) I thought the problem must be that it is Columbus Day weekend. (Are there any Europeans who have heard of Columbus Day weekend? I hadn’t.)

\nAfter checking many motels, I discovered that the problem was really that the university at Albany had a special event for all the parents! The manager of the Quality Inn offered to phone around for us, and found us a place in Schenectady, just north of Albany, on the second call.<\/p>\n

\"Niagara<\/a>Today, we drove from Schenectady to the Niagara Falls, arriving just before dusk. We only visited the American side of the falls briefly – we will return tomorrow – but the falls are spectacular, as the photos<\/a> show. We’d been under cloud for the entire day, with some light rain, but reached the edge of the clouds just before the falls!
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Yesterday, we set off from the Burkhard’s home on our way to Virginia, taking a slight detour to the Niagara Falls. (Look up the geography \ud83d\ude42 ) The weather was terrible; the remnants of tropical storm Tami were dumping their rain on us for hours on end. We reached Albany, where we started looking for … Continue reading “Niagara Falls”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagebuch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bufton.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}