Hey shuttergirl...how did I totally miss out on your Trip Report til now. Probably the same way you totally missed us in Buffalo....
JK.
I haven't had time to read the whole thing, but flipped through your Niagara Falls/Boston portions. Looks like you had a good time despite the cold and your cold. (Us disease-infested Americans...Yul!)
I agree Niagara Falls beats Grand Canyon. Grand Canyon is too big. NF is of size your mind can comprehend. Amazing to think that only 50 % of the water that should be going over the falls actually is. (The other 50 % is by-passed for hydroelectric...at night they re-route 75 %.) See what you would've learned if you invited us to dinner with you?
The Behind the Falls tour is neat, but it's too bad that you couldn't come at a time when the Maid of the Mist is running, the boat gets really into the cauldron that is the horseshoe falls, and the shear amount and force of water around you is awesome.
The "real" Cheers is most definitely the one near the Commons, with the pub in the basement being the basis for the show. The case used to come into town around once a year to shoot a few exteriors. (The reason the exteriors were typically the throwaway gags at the cold open of the show.) So that is where they actually filmed.
Fenway is an amazing park..glad you got to see it. Better to see a game there.
Can't believe you just get back from that and your heading to Europe. How do I get that lifestyle?
I'll try and catch up eventually.