Travel Blogger Daily Blog: Experiencing The Niagara Falls Rainbow

A Beautiful End To A Day Of Wine Tasting

By Kevin Wilkerson, PubClub.com Travel Blogger

I had always thought that big rainbows only happened in Hawaii.

So when I saw one 5,000 miles away in Niagara Falls, I was stunned, to say the least.

And it was a prefect rainbow, all the full colors arched without flaw over the falls.

At first, I thought it was a mirage brought on by all the wines I had while on a tour of the Niagara-On-The-Lake wineries. Something I highly recommend if you’re in the area, by the way.

But then, inspired by that wine, as I and my PubClub.com associate Andrew where hitting on – er, talking to – the two cute girls with the horse-drawn carries dressed in the full riding crop outfits by the falls, they told us that it happens every clear evening.

Imagine that, I thought. A rainbow every night of the year. How nice! It must be pointed out that we were on the Canadian side, which is much nicer than the American side (and I’m an American).

I immediately started snapping photos, wanting to capture this moment before it disappeared from view. But it lingered and lingered, like a beautiful sunset that just seems to pause just before it slides out of view.

After about five minutes, I quit taking pictures and did something that we don’t do often enough in this age of Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and SnapChat – I put down the phone camera and just enjoyed the moment. Quite frankly, I wish I would do that more often.

I was not alone. All up and down the sidewalk that parallels the falls, cell phones were getting put into people’s pockets and pocket books.

The only bummer was that Andrew and I were unable to entice the two lovely ladies to join us to share the bottles of wine we brought back from our wine tour. So we went to Edgewater Tap and Grill with its a large balcony overlooking the falls in hopes of scoring – er, securing – other opportunities on what turned out to be a slow, lazy early-summer evening.

We could still see the rainbow – and the girls – and they even waved up to us. The ideal scenario would have been to ride off into the sunset with them but, as the Rolling Stones famously sang, “sometimes you can’t always get what you want.”

You can, tho, get what you need, and in this case it was a beautiful moment that has lasted forever at the end of a great day in Niagara Falls.

Cheers!

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