Ok, I haven't been very good about keeping up with this lately, but I have been keeping pretty busy, so that's my excuse. Not sure exactly where I left off, but I think I still need to share about our Columbus Clippers game! Chad and I went to see the Clippers at the new stadium, Huntington Park. It was a lot of fun. My dad works there, so he got us into the club level and an usher found some unused seats for us that were great. It's a nice park and a lot of fun.
Then, my boyfriend Ryan came into town. I took him to the "new" COSI. I had fun, it's nice, but I still don't like it nearly as much as the old COSI. Is it just nostalgia for the things I miss, like the street of yesteryear with it's old movie theater, the paper making, the elephant collection, and wool smoothing/weaving? Or the coal mine? Or the baby chicks? The hall of presidents? Why couldn't they have combined these things into the new COSI? I try to be objective and look at it like it's just a museum of it's own, but I haven't been able to do that yet. And how do they not have a planetarium????!!! They did move over the cracker box collection, which I enjoyed looking at this time.
Ryan and I also went to the Franklin Park Conservatory. I love it there, it's so beautiful! They also have the butterfly exhibit right now, so we had butterflies flying around us. We went to Shadowbox, Easton, Polaris, old Hilliard (for Johnny's party), a park in UA for Dylan & Brooklyn's birthday party, had a family dinner at Shirley's, drove around campus and had Adriatico's (of course), went to Dave & Busters, and went to the Wilds. The Wilds was awesome! I love animals and it was really cool to see so many of them up close.
Tuesday, I met Amir, Jackie, Dave, Shannon, Evan, Brooklyn, and Dylan for dinner at the Ballantrae Country Club. It was a beautiful night and Dylan had fun playing on the golf course! Then we went over to the fountains where Dylan played with Amir and Evan and rolled on the hill (too cute) and the girls stayed dry. Then we went to graeter's for ice cream.
Wednesday, Chad, Ioulia, Ioulia's mom, Ioulia's grandma, and I went to King's Island. We had a great time. I LOVE the new roller coaster, Diamondback. The new one from last summer, Firehawk, was pretty awesome too!
Thursday, I got some much needed rest and had dinner with Chad & Shirley at Barley's in grandview. Friday night I went to dinner with Chad, Ioulia, and Evan at Gallo's and then we went bowling! I'm horrible, but I had fun! Then Chad & I met up with our cousin Josh at b.hampton's on king or third or something like that (they moved, so I'm not sure).
Saturday morning Shannon, Jill, and I left for our girl's weekend in Cincinnati. We spent most of the day at the outlet malls in Jeffersonville. Then we had a very nice dinner at primavista, which was a very expensive, but beautiful italian restaurant overlooking the whole city from the side of a hill. We had a great time and the food was awesome! Then we drove around downtown for awhile. We went out to fountain square and hung out for most of the evening (although it rained, so we had to stay inside mostly). Then we watched a chick flick on in demand! Sunday, we slept in, then woke up and had a great breakfast and came back to Columbus. I spent the rest of the day with Chad, we went Walmarting, saw the new Harry Potter movie, and had some Iaacono's spaghetti for dinner.
Today, I slept in and then had lunch with my cousin, Nataleigh. Now I'm catching up on some blogging and I'm going to read my book, because I can't wait to see how it ends! Lola is contentedly sleeping at my feet!
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