Roadtrip!

Pete scored a day off at Hoban on Friday, February 16th because they had a long day on Thursday for conferences.  Since I work on Sunday mornings we took Friday and Saturday to visit some friends and family in Columbus.  Here's the itinerary in retrospect.  We made it up as we went:

11:30 - 12 noon : Leave the Canton homestead
2:00pm - stopped at rest stop to enjoy pack tuna salad sandwiches, fresh fruit, hummus, cheese and crackers
2:20pm- arrived at Morse street Columbus
2:30pm - Investigated Pete's cousin Heather's house thoroughly from the outside as large fluffy snowflakes filled the air and we wrote an extensive note so we could be tracked down later
2:45 pm- ventured back to Keely's house to chat and play with her awesome stash of children's toys including jigsaw puzzles of Curious George and Thomas the Tank Engine (two of Luke's favorites)
5:30 pm- Packed up Keely and the boys to pick up my brother Andrew in his third year at Ohio State to go to dinner
6:00pm- Arrived at Ellie's (my friend from high school) house for a homecooked meal of mac'n cheese (with applesauce), tasty green beans and other goodies where we also got to visit with Ellie's brother Joe, his wife Kelly and their son Clark who is a few months younger than Luke.
8:30pm- Pete leaves to drop off Andrew at work and returns to unload the van
10:00pm- Pete leaves to bring Keely back home
10:45 pm- Pete done driving for the night and we call it a night!

Saturday, February 16th
Wake up, quick photo shoot, and breakfast at Ellie's
10:00am- Meet at Heather's house for grand tour, conversation and formal introduction to Alex.  We left with unexpected gifts of homemade wine and Luke snagged Heather's copy of Disney's: The Jungle Book. (We'll try to get that back to you soon Heather)
11:30am- Pick up Andy at his apartment and go to Adriatico's for Pete's favorite nostalgic pizza experience
1:00pm- Milk stop for Luke
1:30 pm - Pick up Keely and head to COSI for lots of fun (much more than I remember in my girl scout days)
4:30pm -Depart COSI (did I mention how totally awesome it was?!?!?)
5:30 pm- Mass at St. Brendan the Navigator church in Hilliard where our friend Bonnie works now.  Unfortunately we weren't able to meet up with her :-(
7:00pm- Dinner at El Vaquero
8:30 pm-  Drop off Keely, Ice stop for Andrew before dropping him off
9:00pm - Depart Ohio's capital
11:37pm- Arrive home at Spangler safely

We enjoyed the trip immensely.  The boys were excellent and we are likely to make the trip again before too long.  Hopefully we can catch up with Aunt Blanche and Uncle Al and Bonnie next time.

Sorry Ellie...I had to include it since it was the only picture I had of Auggie and Pete for the weekend.  Not to thrilled by my own expression but you all can get a glimpse of my new frames that I got in December of 2012.  My old glasses were from my sophomore year in high school!

Water jets in the ocean exhibit.  Not sure who had more fun: Luke or Uncle Andy?

Chair lift at COSI

Sheer excitement:  Luke was thrilled by the various exhibits that employed jet streams of air or water especially.  Did you know that the average speed of ketchup leaving the bottle is 25 mph?!?!?