Niagara Falls

We eventually tore ourselves away and got to Niagara Falls by mid-afternoon. We had two strong impressions:
1) The falls themselves (we could see two different branches) were truly something else – breathtaking! Terry came back the next day from his visit to the American side with two startling figures -- the flow over the Falls is normally 1.6 Million gallons per SECOND! and, at night when the tourists don't see it, about 75% of that is diverted through power plants on the American side!
2) The carnival (some 80 "attractions" from Tussaud's Wax Museum to Ripley's World Records Museum to Marineland and so on ad infinitum and ad nauseum . . . ) surrounding the approach to the Falls almost ruined the whole thing. Those damn Canadians and their commercialization of everything . . .

Captions for the pictures below:
1) These two shots of waterfalls are actually two different falls, one on either side of an island in the middle -- the Canadian side one is called Horshoe Falls for its shape, the other one is very imaginatively called American Falls.
2) I thought we were in Canada! At Niagara Falls! Not in Seattle! Not in Disneyland!

Trivia note: Apparently, according to Etymology Online, the word "Niagara" is merely the name of an Iroquois Nation town and has no further meaning.