How A Day Of Wine Tasting Ended With One Of My Favorite Niagara Falls Memories
I wasn’t expecting a rainbow when I visited Niagara Falls. I certainly wasn’t expecting to learn that they’re a regular part of sunny afternoons at the Falls. What followed became one of my favorite memories from the trip.
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 perfect 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 carriages 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 social media — I put down the 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.
Kevin Wilkerson is the founder of PubClub.com, an award-winning journalist and nightlife expert who has covered destinations, events and nightlife for more than two decades. While working as a newspaper reporter, he received an Associated Press award for investigative journalism.
Next Stops On The Niagara Falls Party Bus
• Niagara Falls Canada Visitor’s Guide: Things To Do & Travel Tips
• Wine Tasting! A Guide To Niagara-On-The-Lake Wineries
• Driving The Scenic Niagara Parkway
• The Travel Blogger’s Thoughts On Seeing Niagara Falls For The First Time
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