Niagara Falls

Usually my family does not travel often or far. However, the couple times we do travel a long distance away from home we go to Pennsylvania to see family. I have made this journey twice now once when I was seven and once last summer. Because we take my grandparents with us who cannot fly, we have to drive all the way to Pennsylvania. While it can get very tiring to be sitting in a car for such a long time, I get to see sights that I am not accustomed to seeing such as the mountainous state of West Virginia or Amish people. When we do finally arrive at New Castle, Pennsylvania, though I always have a great time meeting and remembering relatives and going to see sights around that area.
When I went to New Castle when I was seven, we decided to spend a day going to Niagara Falls in Canada, which was a day I will never forget. We had to drive through New York on the way to Niagara Falls, so young me was more anticipating the tall buildings of New York and I was not even that excited to see the Falls because I did not know what to expect.
When we got out of the car I was speechless and I was so excited that I could not even move. I had seen little waterfalls before, but nothing had even come close to comparing to the magnitude of this. After overcoming the shock I quickly made my way up to the top to where we were standing even with the top of the waterfall. I was so excited I did not know where to look. The infinite amount of water seemed to be moving at such great speeds that nothing could stop it until it suddenly just crashed all the way down to the bottom creating a big white mystery of foam at the bottom. I was left with so many questions by such a simple thing.
When I looked up, a thin wire caught my attention which I followed to see a net underneath it. I found out that this was for the heroic and incredibly brave people who thought they could tightrope over the Falls. Just the thought of it scared me. I also saw small wooden barrels, which I learned was some people’s method of riding down the waterfall. I was stunned that anyone would think of attempting to try that, and anyone who did must have been crushed by the powerful water at the bottom.
This one day to visit Niagara Falls, which I thought would boring, was one of the most exciting and memorable days of my life. It left me wondering at how such a phenomenon could occur in nature. The water seemed to flow over the top endlessly yet the bottom never filled with water. It was such a powerful, unstoppable, and august wonder, and I had seen it. That day certainly and thankfully did not turn out the way I expected, and because of that I was left with a memory I would never forget and wanted to experience again.