Karaoke & Fireworks
Saturday, July 26th, 2008Last night, being Friday was another fabulous fireworks display here in Niagara Falls. We had a sign-up sheet out for guests at the hostel so we could take a group of them to the top for the show. It was a very good thing that Mich called ahead. As it turns out the elevator to the top was out of order and being worked on, which meant nobody was being allowed to the top of the tower.
After speaking with David, she was able to get us a guarantee of going straight to the top of the tower. We had a group of 22 hostel guests with us, and the last thing we wanted to do was disappoint them and cancel the trip. 4 taxi cabs later, we were at the Skylon Tower, waiting in line to get to the top. It was 9:40pm and we were cutting it really close, as the fireworks started at 10pm.
The crowd at the top wasn’t too bad, and thankfully we made it within a few minutes to view the fireworks. Trying to keep track of 22 people up there can be a challenge! As usual the fireworks were beautiful and a big round of applause erupted as it finished 20 minutes later. The one draw back to the tower is that it takes so very, very long to get back down! However, once everyone was back on the ground we piled into taxi cabs, some of us going back to the hostel and the rest going to the Queen for karaoke!
It’s funny, last week, nobody went to karaoke from the hostel, this week, we had about 12 guests there. It was pretty good times. It only cost me about $15 to convince a couple of guys to stay at the Queen and then to get them to sing later. They were SO shy in the beginning, but with a little coaxing, they sang and loved it enough to sing again, without me pushing them! haha There were lots of laughs, which was great.
At around 1:30am I decided to head back to the hostel, as I was working at 7am. Nobody else was leaving at the time, so that left me to walk alone. I wasn’t exactly nervous about walking on my own, but at the same time I still didn’t take to streets that went right past the old abandoned detention center! haha. I’m such a loser!
Pam