Life at Cloverhill

Christmas Holidays Ontario

Niagara in Lights

Yesterday I headed over the border with my family to do a mad dash of last minute Christmas shopping. Its always so fun to go shopping in the US because they have different stuff than we do and sometimes at a great price too!

As tired as we were, we decided to head over the Rainbow Bridge on our way back into Canada and drive through Niagara Falls. They have an annual light display during the holidays and it seemed like a festive way to end our trip.

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The lights were even more amazing than I thought they’d be. I wish these pictures would show you how they all moved. The “fountain” of lights was twinkling the whole time.
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 A big rainbow sign to welcome you to the parks.
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Giant trees lit up, with little trees throughout the park.
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Our trusty Mounties!
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Toy soldiers lighting a cannon. You can see in this picture how the cannon ball would move and the smoke would rise up.

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There was also a massive series of Disney characters, like a waving Snow White and all the dwarfs.

Mickey and the cast from Cars.
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My sister’s favourite was a “Candy Cane Forest” in one of the parks. As we drove around, we saw all these huge trees wrapped in red and white lights.

They also had many wildlife displays set up in the park. A moose and buffalo squaring off.
A beaver chopping down a tree, while deer hang out by the water.
They even had some dinosaurs across on a little island. I love their reflection in the water.
One of my favourite displays was Noah’s Ark sitting in the big pond.
There were many more displays there, but most of my pictures came out looking like this. Its hard to take pictures of lights!
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After a lovely drive around Niagara Falls, it was time to head home with all of our shopping bags. As exhausting as it was going around the mall all day, I’m so glad to have almost all of my gifts picked out. Now its time to find fun ways to wrap them : )