Foggy Falls

 We woke up this morning to rain which always makes sight-seeing rather tricky. But we did have rain gear so we decided to commence with our plans anyway.  We started out today having lunch at a Greek restaurant.  There's no other way to describe it except to say it's exactly like a traditional homestyle diner in Lancaster County with the exception of Greek food.  It was rather delicious.  Josh and I both had chicken soulvaki (just google it. I have no idea. but it's good.) We called the zoo to find out about the painting elephant. Turns out that he only paints in July and August. Sigh...artists...So instead, we went to the Honeymoon Trail Winery because it sounded pretty fitting for our trip and what better way to spend a soggy afternoon?  They had soooo many wines. And you could only try four (i'm sure if you paid more, you could taste more but we didn't try...).  They were pretty good. We're mailing some back home to ourselves haha.

All along the way to the winery, we kept passing these signs:

Wouldn't you be intrigued too? Seriously, at every intersection for about 18 miles, these signs were on a telephone pole. Naturally, I asked Josh to take us there after leaving the winery.  It turns out that it's an odd sort of thing...When we pulled in we first saw a reindeer! So we were excited...

But just kidding. It turns out it's an elk. But we didn't see the sign until we drove further. And after we got really excited. But that's okay.  There was also...

A toy soldier! And they also had a place to cut down your own tree. But as we're in a car until Christmas, there's no way to water a tree, otherwise, I'd find a way. I LOVE Christmas trees. I will find a way to have a makeshift tree in the car.  I just don't know how yet. Josh vetoed the Christmas lights hung on the ceiling already....which I can understand. It is harder to see when you're driving in the dark if there's lights on in the car. Okay anyway, we didn't stay at the Christmas Adventureland very long but the best part of it is the fact that not only does Santa employ reindeers; he also has....

Zebras! Bet you didn't know there were Christmas zebras too. Oh yeah. Reindeer won't do it for me next year. I'm gonna have to find a zebra...

We still had time left today so we went to Niagara Falls. Did you know that the Maid of the Mist stops being a boat after October? And you can't see the falls if it's foggy? Sometimes I swear our timing is absolutely impeccable.  But we still had fun. We walked down to Horseshoe Falls (a little over a mile, I think) and enjoyed looking at the Falls.

Foggy, but you can still see a portion of the awesomeness 

Anytime someone sees us taking one of these kinds of pictures ourselves, they always offer their services. I think we must look really uncomfortable or awkward or something but these pictures always end up being way more fun looking than a posed one.

We were so cold after that so we came back to the hotel and unearthed all the leftovers from last nights wing buffet.  But mere wings as wings just wasn't good enough. So we made wing soup! It was pretty darn good. And cheap. All we added from our own food was broth, water and onion. Not bad...not bad at all...