We packed a lot into our couple of days in Niagara New York. We started by taking what turned out to be a easy drive to downtown Buffalo and going to the Explore and More hands on museum and the Sullivans Navel museum.

The Explore and More museum was awesome, but Finn and Gabe were just a bit too old for it. There were a few exhibits that they were interested in, especially on the science floor, but mostly they struggled to find things they were interested in.

The Sullivans on the other hand held there attention way longer than I thought it would. The Sullivans, along with the USS Little Rock (another WWII Destroyer) and USS Croaker (a WWII Sub) were really something to walk through. Seeing how they were designed to make use of tight spaces (especially the USS Croaker) and to see the differences between them, was really cool. The boys loved seeing where sailors would sleep, eat and of course because they are 8 and 11 year old boys…..where they went to the bathroom. I had to literally drag them out of the bathrooms because they were so interested in them.

The second day we were able to have Meg join us on a trip to Canada to check out Niagara Falls. It was fun to experience the boys slowly wrap their minds around just how big the falls would be. At first they asked questions like “how long is the hike to it?” and “can we swim there?”. When we told them the fall were bigger than an elementary school we watched it finally click for them.

Seeing the boys experience even just the insane amount of mist coming off the falls was really neat. I would say the boys enjoyed the falls about 10 minutes before they were ready to go on though.

The only other thing we did in Niagara Falls was go to Fun Zone and go glow in the dark mini golfing. The boys enjoyed it, but the course left a ton to be desired. The holes were very short and simple.