GM Diet and Kavitha

Kavitha has successfully completed her second day of GM diet. She was tempted with good food on both days, but thanks to her determination, for which i am really proud of, she didnt yield to that and hopeful to complete 7 days.

Pending Stuff

The following dreams need to be fulfilled:

Sky diving from San Marcos, Tx
Cruise to alaska or carribean
Grand canyon Trip with rail and helicopter
See One art museum (San antonio or Austin)
Run 10 miles as part of my regular jogging
Participate in a 10km race
Build good muscle
Buy a HDTV and home theater system

Hopefully, i should return to this blog by end of this year to see what i have achieved.

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Hariharaprasad - Labor Day Trip

Places Visited:

Niagara Falls from USA side
Niagara Falls from Canada Side
New York

Hotels Stayed
Hotel Ramada, Bufallo
Sheraton suites on the hudson, Hoboken, New Jersey

Hotel Review - Ramada
Ramada was pretty basic. Not very clean. But it is good for the price. I paid $59 per nigght for the queen size room ($10 lesser than internet price. I got this by calling the hotel directly). There is a Indian restaurant right inside the hotel. Decent food. Breakfast, lunch and dinner available.

Hotel Review - Sheraton Suites
The Best hotel i have ever stayed that has the view of the NY Skyline from the hotel room. Visit their website. I got a king suite for the price of a twin suite. $200 per night. The hotel has a ferry that goes from the hotel to Manhattan on weekdays and on weekends, they operate a shuttle that leaves you on Newyork Ferry services.

Places seen - Niagara-Canada Side:

Maid of the mist
Nightly Illumination
The Whirlpool Aero Car
White Water Walk
Journey Behind the Falls
Falls Night Fireworks
Butterfly Conservatory
Sky Wheel

Things i should have seen, but missed
Skylon Tower
imax (The US side of niagara also plays the niagara movie, but not in imax format, so dont miss this)

Places seen from US side
Goat Island

My take on which side is better: US Side is beautiful and Canada side is complete. If you have to miss canadian side because of visa reasons, you dont have to feel bad, you have not missed much. But if you have valid visa, you should visit canada side, by getting canadian visa. The border officials dont issue visa on entry. So dont believe if someone says that they do issue.

Invitation

Hi TCSers from San Antonio,

This is an effort to collate all our travel from SAT where we can write about where we visit, what we did, how much it costed us, where we stayed, what we did that was good, what we did that was not so good, what plans worked out well, what didnt etc etc. We can make it better and moe organised as we continue...

Hope it helps all the future travellers.