Trip Report

We're back from our trip to Cleveland and I must say, we had a wonderful time! I was expecting the worst, but Vic & I both had a great weekend. We started our trip on Thursday morning ~ my plan was to be up and on the road by 8am. We pulled out of the driveway at around 10:30. A little behind schedule, but it was no biggie because we were in no rush.

The weather was a tooch overcast when we crossed the state line, but no great gobs of rain or anything, so we actually had a nice drive.






Almost immediately after we crossed the MI/OH border the farms started popping up everywhere! The drive thru Ohio was beautiful. We had a lot of rolling hills and farms along our ride. I had been to "Amish country" in Ohio a long time ago (a 2nd grade field trip, I think), but Vic had never been, so our first night was spent in Berlin, OH.

The closer we got to Berlin, the more buggies we saw. There were even some with headlights and turn signals! I thought there would be more Amish people riding bikes, but we only saw one. And they worked in all the stores we shopped at. I guess I figured they only worked on their farms.

Here is the picture we take on all our trips. I like to think of it as the "We really need to take someone with us so we can get pictures of us" shot.

This is just one of the many beautiful farms we saw along the way. Ohio's countryside is just breathtaking!

Even though we only spent one day in Berlin, all of our pictures are from there. I just forgot to bring the camera with us to the church or the reception! What a maroon! The church service was small, but very nice. The reception was also kind've on the small side, but also very nice. Some of my cousins that I hadn't seen in over 20 years were there and it was great catching up with them! (I really wish we had taken the camera with us!) Vic enjoyed the open bar and finally got a chance to meet my mom. We've been together 9 years and this is the first time they've ever met! Probably a good thing we had that open bar. It was really nice seeing my brother again, too. I hope that since we're only 4 hours away from each other, we can get together every once in a while. I'm going to really try to work on our relationship.

In all, we both had a great time. It's always nice being back home, though. I really missed Shannon and all our stuff. I think this coming weekend we're going to work on getting some stuff done around the house and preparing for Vic's friends visit. They are going to be here next Thursday and stay thru the weekend, so I'd like to get a few things done before they arrive. We've also got tickets to the Tigers game on Sunday ~ our first game this season. I can't wait for the weekend to get here!