This was another great trip to Niagara
Falls. We had a lot of
time to walk around the area and enjoyed the Christmas lights.
Niagara
Falls, in my opinion, is not a grand sightseeing spot there. But here we feel local
citizen’s respect to nature. A Chinese girl on the bus felt the same. We sat together and became
friends.
The bus brought us to an outlet mall first. It is
small, but I found a pair of boots. Shopping never bothers girls. For international
students, this is considerate arrangement. Most of us don’t own cars. In such a
large city with only a few malls, we don’t really have time and money to go far
away to an outlet mall ourselves.
The weather was good for shooting. Though I took a
lot of photos last time I came here, I couldn’t help shooting. We found more
features of it. After that, we went to an attraction street for two hours and
then came back for Christmas lights.
To be honest, the lights are normal to me. I even
felt a little naïve. We even laughed for a while thinking that we came here particularly
for these lights. They looked very low end. But suddenly we realized that these
are all tax payers’ money. We lost in thought for a while. In China, we are
used to government’s lavish expenditure. We enjoyed the great scenery produced
by our government but never asked whether those were worth our money.
I can't
say which style of government is better. Sometimes we did blame our
government of using a lot of money to show off. But in reality we enjoyed the
fantastic views as well.
In China, we don’t really have an entertainment
street like this one. The facilities are separated. They seem to have different
owner. We only pay for what we get. I love the buildings there. Though it’s
really short, we enjoyed wondering around there.
Now I wonder how it looks like in winter. I heard that it snows. Will the whole fall be frozen? I guess not. Let's expect for a third trip there in winter.
