Marc and I had planned to go up to Niagara Falls, as we do every year for Swing Niagara. This year we decided to go up to the Canadian side. Unfortunately, it was a miserable overcast day. Since we had the passports and made the plans we decide to go anyway. We get there around lunch time, we find a place to park, and we find a restaurant to eat at. The restaurant we chose was this cute little pub. They even have their door open to welcome people in. Unfortunately for me, during lunch a little brown bird decided it wanted lunch too. Because I am petrified of things flying near my head, I wasn’t too excited to share my lunch with this little bird. We ate as fast as possible and moved on.
Our next plan for the day was to find something fun to do. While at lunch, we read on the menu about this cute little place around the corner with dinosaur mini-golf. We go there and start golfing. We had trouble at every hole. The ball would bounce over the hole or it’d swing around the hole. It did everything except to sink in! Half way through the course we notice the PVC pipe creating the hole for the ball isn’t sunk into the ground. It is slightly above the edge of the ground. That’s why we couldn’t get the ball in the whole! We took pictures just to prove that we weren’t as bad as our scores!
Once we finish up we decide to head down to the Falls. We get down to the American Falls and it is completely dead, there is no one around. Since there isn’t much to do right there anyway, we take a few pictures and then head down to the Canadian falls. There are a lot more people walking back from the Canadian falls. Marc acts a little odd on the way down. He kept switching to walk on the inside of the side walk and holding the opposite hand as normal. I asked what was up and he said he doesn’t want me to have to avoid all of the people on the sidewalk. I think his reasoning is a little strange, but I let it go.
When we get to the Canadian Falls, we look around and take a few pictures. Marc starts to get fidgety. I asked if he was OK, he said that he had a little bit of a headache and wasn’t feeling well. I asked if he wanted to get aspirin in the store or head back and he said that he’d be fine. I started thinking with the overcast skies and the wind, the Falls seemed a lot wetter than normal. Marc mentioned he thought it was starting to rain and suddenly the skies opened up.
We ducked into the gift shop to wait out the rain. When the shower was over we decided to head back to the main strip. It was closer to our car and there are more shops to duck into.
On the way back Marc said, “let’s take the walk through the park/garden area rather than along the Falls.” I thought that was OK. After all, it’s different scenery and shorter, so why not? As we’re heading back we find this little rose garden that must have been beautiful during the summer. We decided to go in. Since September is well beyond rose season for the area, it lacked a little luster. But Marc wants to hang out for a few minutes anyway.
With this, I start getting suspicious. First, he’s behaving oddly on the sidewalk, then he doesn’t feel good but seems fine, and now he wants to hang out in the flowers. Well, if he was going to ask this would be really sweet - in a rose garden at the Falls. But we leave the dying flowers and move on, and I chalk it up to me wanting it to happen. I must be making things up in my own head.
I decide that I was hungry again. I had seen both Dairy Queen and Hershey earlier back at the main strip. We head to Hershey first to see if they had anymore of the yummy peanut butter sauce we got in Pennsylvania. No luck. (Unfortunately we’ve only been able to find it at Chocolate World at Hershey park, so if anyone is down that way let us know) J Because the Hershey shop was also a bake shop, I looked around to see if I wanted something there rather than ice cream. I see this enormous 1-pound peanut butter cup that look delicious. Because I knew that I wouldn’t eat the whole thing, I decide that I wanted ice cream anyway. Plus, I’m getting tired and Dairy Queen is back towards the car. So we headed back up the hill to Dairy Queen and I get a peanut butter cup Blizzard.
After getting the Blizzard, we walked across to this little foyer area between the shops in front of the giant “sky wheel” overlooking the Falls. As I eat my ice cream, this little kid stares at us from the Tom Horton’s window. Unsurprisingly, Marc starts making faces at the kid. They go back and forth while this kid’s parent’s notice nothing. There is music playing over the speaker and we get up and practice stuff for Marc’s class the next day. Then we goof off and dance a bit. We sit, talk, laugh, and have a good time.
Marc pulls out the ring and says “I want to laugh and have fun like this together for the rest of our lives, Will You Marry Me?” I stare at the ring in disbelief! I smile and my eyes well up with tears. I give Marc a big hug and a few seconds later I hear “So, is that a definite maybe?” Not realizing I hadn’t said anything, I said “No! I mean, of course Yes!”
