It's been a crazy weekend! Thursday was my 10 year anniversary with my boyfriend, so we decided to go to Niagara Falls for an overnight trip. It was really great. I had a lot of fun. I always think that the touristy-ness of it is quite funny, though. Most of their tourism centres around providing different angles for looking at the falls. Really, how much can you get of them? You can see the falls from the path around them, you can go behind them, you can take a boat right up to them, you can take a helicopter ride over them, you can look at them while riding in a carriage driven by horses, you can even get eat your dinner at a fallsview restaurant or choose a fallsview hotel so you never have to stop looking the falls! "Let's see the falls from this angle, and then this one, and then this one...!" I'm sure the locals are sick of looking at them. I also think it's interesting that people come to witness the sublimity of nature as represented by the falls, but then they get a very manicured, built up area, catering to the tourism, and witness the falls in ways that would indicate a human mastery over nature (especially "Journey Behind the Falls" for which engineers designed tunnels leading tourists to areas where they can go behind the water). But I guess that's enough cultural analysis. Peter and I did have dinner at a fallsview restaurant, and we saw the falls from a ferris wheel called the Niagara Skywheel. The next day we went horseback riding, made a forray out to niagara on the lake, where I bought a hat from "Beau Chapeau" and had my picture taken with a statue of George Bernard Shaw, and finally we got a tour of a winery called Pilliteri Estates (and a little tasting, too). Here are a few pictures:
It was a really beautiful anniversary. Horseback riding through the niagara escarpment was probably one of the biggest highlights of the whole trip. I recommend it to everyone!
Yesterday was Hallowe'en, and I usually like to dress up as some sort of literary figure. This year I chose Alice in Wonderland. It was a great costume. I'll spare you the pictures on this one... My favourite comment with regards to my costume last night: " OMG! You're Alice, right? That was, like, my favourite movie of all time! I LOOOOOVE your costume!" This was spoken by a girl dressed up in a cat lady costume. Rather than explain that I am a literary scholar and that my choice of costume was contingent upon that, I just smiled and nodded.
Today I was wedding dress shopping with my sister. She looked absolutely stunning in all of her dresses. I can't post any pictures because we can't let the groom see! But take my word for it: gorgeous!
Needless to say, it has been a very hectic weekend! I have a presentation due on Monday about the historical significance of images in manuscripts and early printed editions of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Joy! I've done all the research, but I need to write the presentation. So the rest of my weekend will be occupied by that! I guess I'd better get right down to it!
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