Quick update while I have the chance. Landed in Chicago tonight around 10.
We enjoyed our morning with Aunt Valerie and Uncle Brad before going to the Botanical Gardens and making good use of our Ross Park Zoo pass. Thanks to Aunt Valerie and Uncle Brad for being a part of our journey! The Botanical Gardens was a beautiful place and a lot of fun to take a quick spin through.I loved the butterfly garden, it was neat to take around the identification sheet and try to figure out which ones were what. Nate and I both agreed that we liked the indoor gardens better than we liked the outdoor gardens. We also really like the "Spiny Dessert" there. It had all kinds of cacti, a big tree, and some tortoises. At the cafe we had a tasty lunch of a buffalo chicken wrap and a bowl of mulligatawny (a curry soup with chicken and veggies). We also made a stop at the Cleveland Art Museum. It was free to go in and look at the galleries. I got in trouble for standing too close to Claude Monet's painting "Water Lilies."
We got an Annual National Park Pass at the Cuyahoga Valley National Park and also got a "passport" to stamp all of the parks that we went to. We also decided to collect sew-able patches at each park and hope to do something creative with them at the end of the trip. We picked up a college friend, Ian, in Illinois. We had a hard time with the time change. Garmin was smarter than we thought and calculated our eta in the correct time zone (took us a while to figure that out). We ate together at a Steak n' Shake. This was my first time at a Steak n' Shake and Nate and I split a delicious cookie dough milkshake. They also make a great burger. It was great to see Ian and catch up! He brought us to his apartment for a pit stop to update the blog before he shows us around Wheaton College, the college he is attending. After that, here's to a long night of driving. Driving through the night to make it to South Dakota. Next stop Badlands.
We enjoyed our morning with Aunt Valerie and Uncle Brad before going to the Botanical Gardens and making good use of our Ross Park Zoo pass. Thanks to Aunt Valerie and Uncle Brad for being a part of our journey! The Botanical Gardens was a beautiful place and a lot of fun to take a quick spin through.I loved the butterfly garden, it was neat to take around the identification sheet and try to figure out which ones were what. Nate and I both agreed that we liked the indoor gardens better than we liked the outdoor gardens. We also really like the "Spiny Dessert" there. It had all kinds of cacti, a big tree, and some tortoises. At the cafe we had a tasty lunch of a buffalo chicken wrap and a bowl of mulligatawny (a curry soup with chicken and veggies). We also made a stop at the Cleveland Art Museum. It was free to go in and look at the galleries. I got in trouble for standing too close to Claude Monet's painting "Water Lilies."
We got an Annual National Park Pass at the Cuyahoga Valley National Park and also got a "passport" to stamp all of the parks that we went to. We also decided to collect sew-able patches at each park and hope to do something creative with them at the end of the trip. We picked up a college friend, Ian, in Illinois. We had a hard time with the time change. Garmin was smarter than we thought and calculated our eta in the correct time zone (took us a while to figure that out). We ate together at a Steak n' Shake. This was my first time at a Steak n' Shake and Nate and I split a delicious cookie dough milkshake. They also make a great burger. It was great to see Ian and catch up! He brought us to his apartment for a pit stop to update the blog before he shows us around Wheaton College, the college he is attending. After that, here's to a long night of driving. Driving through the night to make it to South Dakota. Next stop Badlands.
Yeah! Keep up the good fun! Thanks for taking some time out to update your fans!
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