OHIO ROAD TRIP 2016 PT3

My Ohio relatives live near Holmes County, Ohio and the countryside is beautiful 

OHIO ROAD TRIP 2016 PT2

The plan for Monday was to take Aunt Dot out for dinner that night, which meant Cheryl, Pete and I had time to do a little sight-seeing before that. We looked for a museum or historical site we hadn't visited on previous visits to Ohio and found the town of Roscoe Village.

Roscoe Village was one of the small towns that sprang up along the Ohio canal system in the 1800's and has been restored as a historical site as well as a business area. Many of the original brick buildings are still standing and it's a mix of restaurants and gift shops with exhibits set inside the homes and businesses of the original 19th century inhabitants.

At the Visitor Center we watched a short film about the history of the Ohio canal system and a tour guide showed us the dioramas about how the canal was constructed and it operated. Then Cheryl & Pete took the guided tour of the houses while I sat outside the Center and enjoyed the great weather. A former tour guide talked with me for a bit and told me we'd picked the best time to visit because once the weather warmed up there were a lot of mosquitoes because of the canal.

We headed back for Dover and then met up later with Aunt Dot and some of the cousins at one of the local restaurants where had a nice dinner and spent a few hours talking. But finally it was time to say goodbye for this trip.

We left for home early Tuesday morning, stopped over at Syracuse that night, and were back here in Abington by 1pm on Wednesday.

Thanks again Cheryl and Pete for taking me on a great road trip!

But wait! There's more!

To be continued. 

OHIO ROAD TRIP 2016 PT1

Last weekend I took a roadtrip out to Ohio with my sister Cheryl and brother in law Peter to attend
our Aunt Dot's 90th birthday party. It was a good trip with great weather. We've usually visited out
there in the Summer when it's hotter and tourist season, but in April it was comfortable weather with not much traffic. Also, I did a few things I don't usually do.

We left here on Friday afternoon, stopping overnight in Syracuse after dinner at a Dinosaur Barbecue restaurant (my first time at one of those). The next morning we were up early, taking a
route that would take us to Cleveland before turning south. Along the way I saw Lake Erie from a distance and miles and miles of vineyards. We stopped for lunch at a Mideastern food restaurant in Erie, Pa. It was the first time I'd eaten Mideastern cuisine and I liked it.(But then again, I ordered the least spiciest food on the menu. )

We arrived in Dover, Ohio Saturday night and we ate dinner at an old schoolhouse that had been converted into a wine bar. It was small but had a very good three man band I enjoyed listening to
while we ate our pizza.

Sunday we went to the nearby town of Midvale, Ohio to Aunt Dot's party. Although I took photos many were blurred because people kept moving around. Here's one of Aunt Dot with some of those moving people:

One of the nice things about the party was that Cheryl and I saw two cousins we hadn't seen in years, Terry and Marion, daughters of our Aunt Flossie. Here's the best picture I took of Aunt Dot, sitting with
Marion:

The party was in the afternoon, with a cookout that night at my cousin Diana and her husband Gary's house. And unbelievably I didn't take any pictures at all there, because I was too busy eating and talking with Dot and all the cousins! Massive fail on my part.

To be continued....