CycleLights Cross Country Tour

Today the plan is to drive to Columbus and later up to Akron, so we drive the few hours to Columbus and start visiting shops. There are plenty all over the town so we stay together and ride in the car to visit as many as we can before they all close.  We decide not to go to Akron and instead head back to Cincinnati so we stick around and take pictures at “THE Ohio State”. While we’re there we see tours of freshmen so we stop a few of them and ask them to take pictures with us. We...

Once again, we wake up later than we wanted but sleeping on a real bed was so refreshing that we were glued to our pillows. Finally we wake up around noon an make a few bowls of cereal for lunch before we head out to. With limited time, we hurry from shop to shop most with some success. We finally visit the last shop for the day and as soon as we walk in the owner and his wife love the lights. They order a set then buy a few for the shop. The next customer that walks in noticed...

Monday was the last day for the kids to stay in town so the group met at the local white water rafting park and walked a trail. After about 2 hours, we stopped by the oldest Italian restaurant Charlotte and had one last lunch together. Lasagna, fettuccine, salad, bread, cheese cake a canolli top off the lunch. We drop off the group at the airport then head home. We say goodbye one last time and hit the road to Cincinnati. On the road we drive for hours, swap drivers, drive some more, swap back and arrive at our destination grand-uncle’s...

Sunday seems to have been such an exciting day that I can’t remember ANYTHING we did that day… haha. Sorry…

We hoped to sleep in on the weekend, but with it being father’s day, there was a special brunch planned for the fathers in the family that were still in town. So we wake up around 8 am and hurry over to the grandparents’ place for brunch. As we arrive we find a buffet of food laid out on the counter. 7 casseroles, a fruit display, sausage biscuits and coffee all fill the room with a smell of happy father’s day cheer. Food is served and we all sit around listening to stories of the younger years. Stories of mischief...