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Planning Your Trip to Niagara Falls the Nik Wallenda Walk Part 2

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Planning Your Trip/Getting Here
If you are planning on catching this amazing event, you may want to schedule your arrival for Thursday to beat some of the crowd.  Watch out because others will be attempting to do the same.  If you are waiting until Friday to make the trip be prepared you could possibly have a bit of a wait in traffic,  so a  good idea would be to bring some books, make sure the laptop is charged, if you have kids you get be ahead of the game by packing a few snacks for the road, some of their favourite games, and if you’re lucky you have one of those mini DVD players for the car.  It may not even be a bad idea to leave a little early and plan a few alternate routes off the main highways just in case!
Coming from Outside Canada
If you have to cross the border to get to  Niagara Falls  you may need to know Children under the age of 16 can present an original copy of their birth certificate, passport or NEXUS card as preferred identification.  Anyone over 16 MUST have a passport to cross the border.  If you are not the parent or guardian of children in your group, you should also have written permission from the parent/guardian authorizing the trip. The letter should include addresses and telephone numbers where the parents or guardian can be reached.
Divorced or separated parents should carry custody or legal separation documents and/or a letter of authorization to facilitate their entry into Canada.
Wallenda will be walking towards the Canadian side of the falls so it would be worth it to cross the border, and join the excitement as we wait for Wallenda to reach his location at the Table Rock Welcome Centre.
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Tightrope walker gets OK to cross Niagara Falls

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Source: buffalonews.com
Tightrope walker gets OK to cross Niagara Falls
June 22, 2011, 3:47 PM
ALBANY — The walk is on — at least as far state legislators are concerned.
It may be rare for the Legislature to OK something that legitimately can be called death-defying, but final approval was given Wednesday permitting a member of the legendary Flying Wallendas to cross Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
More than 150 years after the “Great Blondin” first walked across the gorge on a tightwire, Nik Wallenda has gotten legislative approval to bypass a longtime state ban on stunts at the Falls to become the first person to try to legally walk a tightrope over the river since 1910.
The measure, which passed the Senate last week and was approved today by the Assembly, says a permit specifically for Wallenda is good for one year, though lawmakers say believe he could make the walk this fall as part of his new Discovery Channel show “Life on a Wire.”(…more)