Category: vacations

  • 2009 Staycation, Part 4

    Part 4 of the Great 2009 Staycation (Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3). Sorry for the delay in getting this up, but I have finally gotten around to it. So, Tuesday, we originally were going to head downtown, but for various reasons, it didn’t work out great. So instead we just took kind of…

  • 2009 Staycation, Part 3

    Part 3 of the great 2009 Staycation! (Part 1 and Part 2) Saturday and Sunday we hung out at my parents house. For some reason we didn’t really take any pictures, so…. sorry! Saturday we had some friends of ours (the Olmsteds and Broadbents) that had moved from Cincinnati to Cleveland over for a BBQ.…

  • 2009 Staycation, Part 2

    Continuing my staycation report (Part 1). Thursday was a relax day. Well, it was supposed to be relaxing in that we didn’t really go anywhere. But it wasn’t so much relaxing since we had tons of shopping, cleaning, packing and preparing for our weekend trip up to Cleveland! Friday we got up early (well normal…

  • 2009 Staycation, Part 1

    So we have been planning a “staycation” here in and around town for awhile, and this past week we started it off. First off was a Reds game on Tuesday night. It rained pretty much the entire day and it was not looking good for a game, but about 5:00 p.m. the clouds lifted and…

  • License Plate Scavenger Hunt

    So back last summer when we made our trip to the Groesbeck reunion in North Carolina, one of the things I came up with was a license plate scavenger hunt to occupy some time in the car. Of course I am not the first person to come up with this idea, but Dan’s First Law…

  • Vacation road trip report

    So those of you who don’t subscribe to my other blog Every Whatever might have missed a recap of the various trips that we recently took to / from North Carolina. Day 1: Cincinnati to Hershey: 27 counties (7 new)Day 2: Hershey to Kitty Hawk: 21 counties (19 new)Day 3: Kitty Hawk to Blacksburg 25…

  • The SUV song

    So, as Carolyn pointed out over here, VeggieTales sure has some catchy songs. We had a little trip to Virginia for Christmas, and VeggieTales were definitely on the menu of our portable DVD player. Here’s one song that I really like. It’s called “The SUV song”. Here’s a quote from the lyrics Both: Oh you…

  • Vacation

    The fam and I are trying to plan a vacation (mostly to Chicago) for this summer. Here are the basic goals. Budget is $1000, and that includes everything (gas, hotels, meals, stuff). The basic plan is to use our museum pass to visit a bunch of the cool things that we get into for free…