Up fairly early as had to pack and eat our complimentary breakfast at the hotel before heading to the train station for a 10:30am train. We were glad we had come straight to Niagara as it was snowing so not sure whether you would even be able to see the Falls today!

We travelled 15 minutes over to Niagara, US and had to spend 1 ½ hours in our seats while they performed an immigration and customs check on everyone. It was quite amusing. The quarantine guy was quite young and asked where we lived to which we replied Australia. He then asked if we had any food products, such as citrus fruits, dairy, from Australia and Emma started to laugh and said No. He then thought we had something so I informed him we'd left Australia over a month ago. Pretty sure you'd be able to smell if we still had something from Australia! The girl in front of us had a tangerine which he said he would have to take. She asked if she could eat it now and he said no. She then told him she would rather he ate it than throw it out. He left our part of the train a bit puzzled and embarrassed, with 5 tourist girls laughing at him!

We arrived into Buffalo-Depew Station about 1:30pm and headed into downtown Buffalo. It's actually the second biggest town in New York state but it's called the Biggest Small Town in America. There is not really anything to do there. We visited The Chocolate Bar where we had chocolate martini's and Belgian pyramids (we did have some real food too!). It was playing Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory on repeat....heaven! And, like I said before, nothing to do, so we went to the movies and watched Yes Man, which was ok...worth killing a few hours for!

We managed to negotiate public transport eventually and went to Walden Galleria which was open till 9:30pm. It was absolutely deserted...another reason why Perth shouldn't have extended trading hours...no-one is going to go anyway but tourists trying to pass some time. Some guys kept trying to sell us phones so eventually we told them we were leaving so no we didn't want any. They assumed we were Canadians but we said no Australia, which was greeted with whoops and omigods! It was quite amusing listening to them try their Aussie accents out!

We then walked to the station from the shopping centre. Itwas snowing and had been for most of the afternoon so most of the sidewalks had at least mid calf to knee deep snow. Tara was not happy! Emma called it an "experience". I called it an "expedition". In the open places, the snow was blowing across like you see in documentaries on Antartica! Turns out it was about 3kms! You should have seen the stares we were getting from people in their cars...