Roadtrip to Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Toronto, Montreal and to Lake Placid...

...Due to some Jewish holidays we had also last Monday and Tuesday off. Therefore we took the opportunity to make a road trip to the following important places in the United States and in Canada:
- Buffalo
- Niagara Falls
- Toronto
- Thousand Islands
- Montreal
- Adirondack Park Reserve
- Lake Placid

See below our travel route where we drove a bit more than 1.300 miles (around 2.100 km):
Buffalo:
After driving all the night we arrived on Friday morning in Buffalo and had a short breakfast there. It is a nice and small city where the famous Austrian NHL hockey star Thomas Vanek is playing for the Buffalo Sabres.

Niagara Falls:
Amazing experience - we also made the tour with the Maid of Mist where you can go to the bottom of the Horseshoe Falls. In the evening the falls where illuminated and there were also very nice fireworks. I can't put this into words - see the pictures below.

American- and Horseshoe Falls:
Horseshoe Falls (in the middle you can see the Maid of Mist boat):
Illuminated American Falls (Nils, Markus, David and me):
Toronto:
On the way to Toronto, we made a short stop in Burlington. This is a small town located on the Lake Ontario. After this we continued our trip to Toronto were we've spend our time to see the most important sights and also to watch a football game in the evening.

CN Tower (We have been on the top - 553 m high - belongs also to the modern Seven Wonders of the World):
My first football game - Toronto Argonauts vs. Calgary Stampeders in the Rogers Center:
Montreal:
Montreal was also an extraordinary experience, because the city is very nice - the only bad thing for me was that the official language is French and not English anymore.

Nice view from Mont Royal:
Typical streets in Old Montreal:
The reason why I will move to Montreal :-)Olympic Park from the summer games in 1976:
Lake Placid:
Lake Placid is located in the middle of the wonderful Adirondack Park Reserve. We were lucky, as we chose the best time to go there - Indian Summer. Lake Placid is quite famous because it had the Olympic Winter games in 1932 and 1980. To be honest I have never seen such a beautiful and big national park like this. It was really a picture-book journey through this park.

To sum up specials thanks to the rest of the travel crew (Markus, Peter, Nils and David) for this trip and the amazing last days! Indeed we had a lot of fun...