So despite our misadventures, we managed to get a small bit of climbing in.
(Left to right: Jim, Omar, Emily, Paul)
One of the things that we we noticed shortly after we started getting ready to climb was that the place was overrun with ladybugs! 
I must have killed so many ladybugs that day.
After some discussion we decided that it looked like it was clearing up and we could head to the nearby Bufallo Crag for some top-roping. We thought maybe it would be less wet - and we'd made such an effort so far it would be a shame not to get some outdoor climbing in. This is the view more or less from the top of the cliff as we were walking in.
Of course without me as navigator, we turned left leaving the Glenn instead of right. Maybe we were just giddy from the storm. Unfortunately the Niagara Parkway exit that you take to get the the Glenn is also the last exit before the Canada-US border. The prospect of crossing the border may also have made us giddy. So though some of us did not have appropriate ID we did manage to cross with promises that we were turning right around. This meant we also had to enter into Canada again. There were long line-ups both ways. Paul was more subdued, Emily was definintely the giddiest.
This is looking out over the ravine in the distance. You can see how dreary it is, but this picture doesn't show the hail that started a short time after we found shelter.
We ran for shelter under the eaves of the nearest provincial park random building and watched the storm. From foreground to back is Emily, Omar, Jim, and Paul.
Some friends from Kingston came up and we headed to Niagara Glen for some bouldering Sunday morning. Despite the threatening sky we thought we might get lucky and get some climbing in before the predicted afternoon thunderstorms.
I took exactly two pictures, including this one of Jim spotting Emily on a V-Easy warm up.
The lighting already looks dark, but just after this picture was taken clouds rolled in faster than you can say "gosh that was fast!" It was really something. The sky was a dark and a menacing green, the wind grew violent and the thunder we had heard in the distance was now closer and joined by lightning. The whole transformation took maybe ten seconds.
Given the weather we decided that getting to the top of the cliff via metal staircase might not be safe. So instead of walking up the staircase we ran up.
