And Last, But Not Least

On Sunday, after the wedding, I drove to upstate New York and paid a visit to Niagara Falls. We took the Maid of the Mist tour through the falls, which I highly recommend if you're visiting. It takes your breath away. Once you get down into the falls and feel the rain on your face and hear the roar of the falls, you really get an appreciation of just how magnificent it really is.




We spent the entire day on Sunday in Niagara. There's a Hard Rock in the Falls area that we had lunch at before heading back to the hotel in Cambridge Springs for the night. My flight left Cleveland the next morning and before I flew out, I had to visit my Mecca - the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame.



For a woman who grew up with the songs of Elvis, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendricks playing in her room, this was like the holy land. To see the actual piece of paper that Purple Haze was written on and the family Bible that Elvis had, or the Porsche that Janis Joplin cruised in, or the piano the John Lennon sat and wrote some of the greatest songs in R&R history at ....well, there really are no words. You're not allowed to take pictures in the museum, but I did snap one of Johnny Cash's tour bus that was outside the meseum.




I know it sounds a bit pathetic, but to be that close to musicians you admired most was awesome! I spoke with some of the employees at the museum who were also musicians and those people truly LOVED their jobs. I don't know if they even cared that they were getting paid to be there every day. The love that someone can posses over a silly little piece of music creates a passion that is overwhelming.