Lanie Visits Part 6 (Lolley the Trolley)

On Thursday, August 2nd we took a tour of Cleveland on Lolly the Trolley.

The boat docks

The longest bridge in Cleveland

an old railroad bridge

Downtown Cleveland

This is a neat Church--They help the homeless by letting them come into their church to shower and to wash their clothes

This is the Carl B Stokes Court House, it was designed to follow the flow of the Erie Channel with a lady with no arms.

More of Downtown

The reflection building

church

Soldiers Memorial

Rock N Roll Hall of Fame

Firefighter monument

This church was part of the underground railroad to free slaves, there are still shackles in the church from the slaves

"BIKE" rack

Guardian of the Highway

smoke tower

Progressive Field: Home of the Cleveland Indian's

It was a really neat experience to take a tour of the city that we have been living in for 3 years.  We live in the suburbs just a few miles outside of the city. 

Lanie Visits Part 5 (Art Museum)

On August 1st we headed over to the Cleveland Art Museum.  Lucky for us it's FREE.  We decided that we would let Lanie explore the art on her own and that Ryan and I would take the kids up to the Knight exhibit...

There was so much to see...

Lanie wasn't able to see everything that she wanted to and wanted to go back another day (just have us drop her off.)

Lanie Visits Part 4 (Amish Country and More)

A big Bear from Aunt Lanie

It is over 5 feet tall

Cute Miss Millie

Sunday evening, July 29th, the boys were wanting Lanie to roll them up in their blankets so that they could be Roly-Poly's

Our wonderful children :)

Nathanial, Emily, and Christopher

On Monday, July 30th we headed out to Amish Country to show Lanie around...

Emily was tired

We stopped at Mrs. Yoder's Kitchen for lunch and outside were horses and buggies...

There were horses and buggies all over

Amish School House

We stopped at a couple of shops (fabric and furniture) and then headed home.  As we were driving home we passed the Smucker's Place so we had to stop.

Pillsbury Doughboy!

The kids had fun seeing all the various items in the store.  It was neat to read how Smucker's was started and to see how much it has grown over the years.
On Tuesday, July 31st, we were invited to go to the Children's Museum with our good friends the Lovato's.

Peyton and Nathanial

It was a lot of fun...Now on to August...