Skaneatles to 'The Falls'

Woke up alone yesterday and took some time to rearrange some of my pics and mails, didn't last but ten delightful minutes before Djudji rested his head on my lap and soon after Matthew  woke up starting immediately to get into a you wanna play with me mode.

We realized today that our kids need to learn to 'Be', though Djudj has a natural nonchalance about life that helps him on that level.
It's a revelation to see the kids evolving without TV, Nintendo, Wii, Ps3, iPad or Computer and other electronic rings and tangs,  and having to invent games to play together.
The Love Hate relationship between the bro's is amazing. The rapidity in which one changes to the other is even more astounding.
Maybe part of this morning's mood swings resides in the fact that the preferred games are 'la bagarre',  one can only collect so much pines.

We found Skaneatles Bakery to be a place that resembles a lot of the croissanteries we're used to have breakfast and started on our way to the Falls.

After a couple of hours of amazingly green, flowery, Magritte like scenery country driving, we found a playground in the middle of nowhere where we stopped to let the kids empty there batteries. You could understand that as, we decided the noise level was getting to high in the car and needed to do something about it.

Back on the road Djudj fell asleep (finally) and Matthew took a rest (forced i might add).
Subways stop and continued on a straight line to the Falls.

There something very unsettling about the niagara falls, and although the huge debit of water, the current you can almost feel, and the non stop pouring of water and more water, the natural element seems to be nearly inexistent.
I am perched in my hotel room  looking at the Disney World like commerciality that was built around this huge natural phenomenon and I feel that; yes it is impressive but what a pitty that because of its surrounding the falls have become just a place your supposed to have seen, check I've seen it, been there done that.
In conclusion I am happy I've seen the falls, it gave me the opportunity to test my new 50/1.4 lens, I took some great pictures, got disappointed and saddened at humans exploitation of Mother Nature, but went to bed happy to be on the road with the family.