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Not much happening today, so, here's a bunch of Niagara Falls pictures.

Looking over the end of the world to see just how misty it gets out there.

And here's where the falls fall. I'm fascinated by that tiny bar of rocks that churn the water up just right before it really drops.

And now to the fun stuff! At least the big attraction besides the Falls, which is, the safety warnings for the Frank' N Coaster, put together on top of the House of Frankenstein haunted house. We didn't do the haunted house but we did ride the coaster.

Last warning before riding a fair enough small family coaster with a height of 25 feet plus whatever the roof line is.

Looking down on Clifton from the top of the House of Frankenstein. Gives you a pretty good feel for what it's all about. I'm game for someday going on the Ferris wheel but bunny_hugger is not.

Other roller coaster riders having a tolerable bit of fun on their two circuits of the track.

There's the train going up the lift hill. There's a lot of capacity for riders, way more than the train needed that day, or probably most days given what a hike it is to get up there and how expensive it is.

The train going around a fairly straight decline, before heading into the fast spiral that's where the coaster first starts really banging your knees.

Oh, there's a Burger King in the first floor of the House of Frankenstein so they get some gargoyles for their signs.

Trivia: Isabella d'Este, the Marquise of Mantua (1474 - 1539), called for tributes upon the death of her beloved lap dog Aura in 1512. Humanists all over Italy sent in elegies, sonnets, epitaphs, epigrams, and other works of art to the renowned commissioner. Source: Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance, Lisa Jardine.

Currently Reading: Escaping Gravity: My Quest to Transform NASA and Launch a New Space Age, Lori Garver. And then a chapter talking about how people might be skeptical of billionaires but aren't they the good guys, really? And somehow it starts with a quote from Neil DeGrasse Tyson, too. I appreciate her talking about the toxic nature of the Old Boys club at NASA, and observing that she can see it at SpaceX and Blue Origin is worthwhile, but can we, like, not pretend that a thing is better because a private company does it under different contract models than a different private company did it before?