My husband and I both grew up in Cleveland. I don’t think we thought we lived in such a rockin’ place when we were younger. Last weekend we went home for a visit. I love being a tourist in this city! So much to see and do!!
Friday we took the kids to our old favorite hang outs on Coventry (the Greenwich village of Cleveland). Most are gone now and the crowd isn’t quite so hippy but it was still fun. Playing at the playground and eating dinner at Tommy’s. We need a Tommy’s here in Clintonville. It would surely do a bang up business!!! Pretty Pleeeeeze???
Saturday we headed to the newly renovated and free Art Museum. It is awesome!!!
Then we headed to The Botanical Gardens. I can’t say enough good things about the Hershey Children’s Garden. We could play there all day.
Look –apparently Ginger has a twin in Cleveland
Saturday night we took my in laws to Sokolowski’s to eat. On the recommendation of Anthony Bourdain of course– we got in touch with our Polish heritage!
Sunday morning we boarded The Rapid and headed to the Terminal Tower for a view from the observation deck. It has been closed since 9/11 and is only open for a few weekends.
Just about everyone in Cleveland had the same idea! We waited in kine for 1 hour and 45 minutes. Ginger was not happy
The ride up didn’t get much better
But the views were so cool! Cleveland really does rock! The ethnicity, the history and the big city feel.
Thanks Cleveland! We will be back soon!
I absolutely love where we live. I also love tradition. I go out of my way to make sure we are making memories together and carrying on family traditions. The 4th of July is one holiday steeped in tradition that my kids really look forward to. Growing up, my parents always had a big 4th of July party–it started in the morning with everyone coming over for breakfast outside. Family came and went all day long. We swam and ate and then moved the party into the garage in the evening. My dad and older cousins would blow off fire works in our back yard and a great time was had by all.
The apple must not fall too far from the tree. We start each 4th of July at our Clintonville Community Breakfast. We walk over to the park early in the morning to begin our day.
One or more of my kids always participates in the pet parade
Then there is the fishing derby
And the party preparation
It is the part of the day that is the calm before the storm. Because the next thing I remember– It looked more like this
And this
This was before the fireworks show and the post fireworks snacking!! It was a late night. And today after cleaning all that up, I took a long nap–in the air conditioning. Hope your Holiday weekend was both fun and relaxing!!
On our way to the blueberry farm today we stopped at my friends mother in laws house. It was the most peaceful, beautiful home. It sits on 20 acres of woods and creek.
I told her that when I die…I hope you go to her house. It is that wonderful. But hopefully I won’t have to wait that long to visit again!!
After a delicious lunch we headed out to near by blueberry farm.
Here are my ham bones–posing for the camera!
I see lots of blueberry muffins, pancakes and syrup in our near future! Happy, happy Summer!!
Molly and her circus friends performed Saturday afternoon at ComFest. It was super hot!! ComFest takes place over three days. For so many it is the three days they look forward to all year. My son and his friends included. Our house is close to the bus that runs down to the park so we have had kids, many kids staying here this weekend. I am tired and looking forward to a quiet day tomorrow!
Here are a few more photos from the weekend.
Until next year—Happy ComFest!
Yes indeed…The longest day!! It was amazing for it to still be so bright after 9:00pm tonight! I love these long summer days and nights. It is beautiful sunny days and long bright evenings like today that get me through the long dark winter here in Ohio. I am already storing up as much as I can!!
To welcome Summer today we went creeking
Ate lots of watermelon
Made wreaths from different plants in our yard
and set out some treasures from our creeking adventure
Happy Summer–here is to hoping it is filled with fun and adventure!





























































































