Hey gang! Jo here, giving you a day to day update of our journey out West. Yesterday we made our first stop in Cleveland Ohio, where we met up with a friend of Hannah's from York. We hit a crazy thunderstorm along the way. We had to drive with our hazards on for a little way, but we weren't the only ones. It wasn't a long storm, but it was nasty. The storm happened relatively early on in our trip, so no shenanigans had happened yet. Cleveland from Brockport is a 4 hour trip. During this time, Hannah and Susi worked on their Spanish accents and we all played a nice hour long game of MASH. When we finally made it to Cleveland, we met Hannah's friend, Katie. We went to a very popular sandwich place called Melt. They make specialty grilled cheese sandwiches. They were delicious. While eating we watched Ecuador and Switzerland play soccer in the women's world cup. Switzerland won, but it was close. 10-1. While that was happening, the US was playing Sweden. It ended in a tie. I don't know why they weren't showing that game, but they weren't. We spent the night in a double tree hotel.
This morning, Mom woke us up at 7am. Those of us who drink coffee had some and the rest got ready to go. Our goal today was Chicago, we succeeded. We stopped in Sandusky, Ohio to breakfast at Bob Evans, because Bob Evans down on the farm. It is a very weird town. We counted 3 indoor waterparks. After our breakfast, we continued on our way to Chicago. We stopped briefly in Indiana to take a pee break at a rest stop. It was empty except for the toilets, we then left Indiana quickly. I then took a nice nap. When I woke up we were in Chicago. To kill time before dinner we thought we would check out Field's Museum. Failed. The Spring Awakening music festival had clogged the streets and parking. Hannah was most put off by the many youth wearing odd clothing. We then tried to go to the Art Institute. Failed. We then decided to go to Oak Park, where we toured Frank Lloyd Wright House and Studio. On the way there we came across a stranger wearing an Iniesta jersey, so Susi yelled visca el Barca, meaning long live barca. He smiled and we continued on our way. After that we decided to head to our hotel for the night where we are waiting for our chinese food to arrive. We plan on playing a game of Bezzerwizzer later.
The weather here sucks. It is currently raining and thundering. It is also very hot out. Our dinner is still not here.
To be continued...
2 comments:
Safe travels. Grandma and popop went off tho the airport this morning. Chiara is ging later on today. Noah came for dinner last night. Looking forward to your next update.
Yes, 5 hours later (including landing 1/2hr early in ROC) we are home. It is raining and 80 degrees. We were happy to be in NY for Chiara'graduation. It was nice. Glad to see Noah and Ashwani and Junu. We had dinner at Saravana's Fri. nite with Junu and Pradeep. Pradeep remembers more of our early meetings than I did. I hope he will come up to see us here sometime.
Thanks Jo, very, very much for keeping us posted. I look forward to the next post.
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