DFT19 - Ohio

-
The Dudley Field Trip 2019 has begun! We left Knoxville on Thursday (after workouts, of course). And started the drive to the Cleveland, OH area.  The drive was terrible.  Once we past Columbus it pretty much rained on us the whole time. And we didn’t arrive at the campground until 10pm ish.  Luckily there was a break in the rain and we were able to quickly get our camp set up before it started another down pour.  We brought the pack n play along on this trip.  I’ll let you guys guess if EG actually slept in it or not. We may or may not be toting around a pack n play that will not be used anymore and we may or may not have found a Target yesterday to purchase a queen-size air mattress.  

The exciting part of our trip started yesterday.  We spent the majority of the day in Cuyhoga Valley National Park.  We started by hiking Brandywine Falls.  Then we visited the Visitors Center, which is in a village type setting, and has a train run through.  But the actual Visitors Center is under construction so the train isn’t currently stopping in the village L Apparently you can take a train excursion through the entire park.  Also the park is really big on biking.  There are bike trails all over and they all connect to one another.  I want to go back and for sure go on a train ride, but maybe bike some of the park. We also saw a Covered Bridge in the park and the Beaver Marsh (which use to be a landfill and in the 1980’s it was converted to a wildlife sanctuary).  We found this fun farm stand on  the side of the road to eat lunch at.  




After our visit to Cuyhoga we drove up to Mentor, OH to see the James Garfield National Historic Site. Daniel was able to watch the movie in the visitors center…EG was having none of it.  But we all 3 took the house tour.  Of course I wore her on my back so she couldn’t touch anything.  And I was sneaking her M&M’s to keep her happy. She only lost it once and I only bumped into one door.  So I think it was a success. 




We found a Taco place for dinner.  Yelp said it have four stars, I question that.  But we did find a Great Harvest Bread close to the taco restaurant and were able to get some Cinnamon Chip bread for breakfast.  


We ended the night we a trip to Progressive Field to watch the Cleveland Indians play.  This was ballpark number 8 for Daniel and I - only 22 more to go.  They give away for the first 10000 fans was a freezer mug.  We did not make it in time to get a mug, but the nice Detroit fan behind us gave EG his mug.  She ate popcorn out of it.  Pretty sure, the popcorn was her favorite part of the game.  I kept waiting for them to play Wild Thing, but it never happened. We made until about the middle of the 5thbefore we left.  She couldn’t take any more of it.  Another guy behind us gave her an over/under of 4.5.  He was spot on.  Apparently the Indians ended up winning 7-6.  




Now we are on our way to Niagara Falls for the day!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

DFT25 - Montana

-
Image
  DFT25 officially began last Saturday. This is a bit of a different trip than we are used to. Since Daniel was officially named the Head Football Coach we didn’t think we had the time to drive like we normally would. So we FLEW! And instead of camping we are staying in AirBNBs.   This is how you know I don’t fly often. It had been a few weeks since I had looked at our flight. Daniel had asked me the weekend before if I thought we should drive to Nashville and grab a cheap hotel room on Friday evening and I said No I didn’t want to do that. But on Friday I had myself convinced that our flight was at 11:50am and that we would be late to the airport. So I decided we did indeed need to go Friday night. I hurried and finished packing and we got on the road to Nashville. At the 407 exit I decided to check my email again. Apparently our flight was at 1:50. I had 11:50 in my mind because that’s what time we needed to be at the airport. I also decided to start the check in process in ...
Read more

DFT25 - Glacier part 2

-
Image
 Saturday was reserved for spending time in the St. Mary and Many Glacier area of the park. We started the day driving across the Going to the Sun road. Stopped at the visitors center in St. Mary and watched the video on the park. Then we had lunch at Johnsons. It was part of the main reason I wanted to go to that side of the park. When Daniel and I were there in 2016 we had their famous Huckleberry Ice Cream pie and were so excited for the girls to have it. Unfortunately they weren’t serving dessert at lunch ☹️. But we did have a huckleberry cream fizz and huckleberry lemonade to drink 🤷🏻‍♀️ Then we drove on up to Many Glacier. Several of the trails are closed due to snow and bear activity. We walked as far around the lake as we could go before we had to turn around. We did finally have our family picture made in front of the sign! Then for dinner we stopped at the Sunflower Cafe for BBQ and it was sooooo good! I’ve figured out that most of the restaurants are tied to a resort o...
Read more

DFT 25 - Montana - Glacier NP

-
Image
Glacier now has a timed entry system. And the pass go up for sale 90 days before your trip or at 7pm the night before you want to enter. 3 months ago I was able to get a permit for all our days but not always the earliest times. So we have had to plan around what time we can get into the park.   Wednesday we didn’t have a pass until 1pm. So we started the morning on the Northwest Side at the place called Polebridge. We were able to visit the Mercantile and get a famous Huckleberry Bear Claw. The Polebridge Mercantile had been in business since….and is one of the most iconic buildings in Montana. We hiked the Covey Meadow Loop in the North Fork Area of the park. Then headed back down for our 1pm park entry to the Going to the Sun Road. We drove all the way up to Logan Pass. EG kept saying she didn’t think it was real and she was actual seeing a projection 😂. When we came back down we stopped to let the girls swim in Lake McDonald. Then we had dinner and ice cream in Apgar Village...
Read more