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If you are a fan of good BBQ, than this is one to pay attention to. Being a KC native, I take my BBQ very seriously. We were doing a project in Batavia, NY and the office staff suggested we check out Alex’s Place for some baby-back ribs. Personally, I have a hard time even getting past the name of those, as I get stuck on the theme song for Chili’s and their overly generic, bland and boring ribs. Luckily, we pushed all the skepticism aside, and went for it.

I always get my first impressions of a BBQ restaurant from the parking lot. If I can smell the food cooking-we are on the right page. I was able to smell the flavor of this restaurant, while I was still at the stop sign across the road. I’ll skip the fluff part of this review, and just skip to the meat of it all. We ordered their signature baby-back ribs. “Double Dipped” in a garlic BBQ sauce. These ribs, were simply amazing. The sauce didn’t have the ‘punch you in the tongue’ bite that the waitress had prepped us for, but it had a delicious sweet and tangy flavor. The most impressive part-is that they were actually cooked to perfection. The only other time I’ve had ribs cooked that well-is back in KC when the brother-in-law’s are bbq’ing it up. These weren’t the typical overcooked ‘fall off the bone’ ribs. There was just enough left on them that you could pick them up, and they bit off cleanly.

Their home-made rolls were also quite impressive, but I’m still having dreams about those ribs.

We were finally able to take in our second natural wonder of the world. It has been several years since we’ve been to the Grand Canyon, and we were thrilled to be close enough to take in the Niagara Falls. Since everyone has told us that the best views are from the Canadian side, we booked a room there. Our suite actually overlooked the Horseshoe Falls, and made for a night of amazing views. We played it safe the night we arrived and just spent the night relaxing in the hotel room. A lot of that was recovery from the previous days experiment in skiing (pictures to come soon). Sunday morning we loaded up, and took off for a hike around the Falls. We did start at the Table Rock center that has a 4D movie experience (the 4th dimension is them randomly spraying you in the face with water) and then a tour ‘Behind the Falls’. Due to the winter, the views through the portals, were frozen off. However, we did get a few great shots from the platform down at the base of the falls. After that tour we started at the Horseshoe and started walking down towards the Falls on the US side. We did grab lunch at Table Rock, where I was finally able to introduce Karen to Poutine-amazing. After the walk we loaded up and drove back to the States to check out how it looked over there.

Everyone that said to go to Canada to see the falls, was 100% correct. The American park was a total disappointment. There was still snow and slush on the walkways. It appears that when winter hits, they shut down trying to maintain it. The one thing that really stood out as positively different from the Canadian side-is the rush of the river. Watching the rapids fighting their way to the edge of the cliff was much more intense on the US side, where you barely noticed them in Canada.

All in all, it was an amazing experience, and we would love to get back and view this wonder in another season.