Our next stop was Cleveland, Ohio and surrounding areas. We were there for three days . My good friend Mollie has been living in Cleveland for the past year, and it was sooo fun to see her again.
Kirtland, Ohio
The first day there we visited the church history sites in the area. We took a tour of the old homes including the Newel K. Whitney store.
Woohoo, we're both in the picture! Mollie was kind enough to take our picture. These types of photos are few, so I thought I'd include it :) We're inside the Whitney store.
We were also able to tour the Kirtland Temple. The early church members sacrificed so much to build this temple. Our tour group sang The Spirit of God at the end of the tour in the temple. There is such a wonderful spirit there.
Cedar Point - "The Roller Coaster Capital of the World"
We spent a full day at Cedar Point Amusement Park. It has more rides than any other amusement park, and the most number of roller coasters over 200 feet tall. Needless to say, we had a lot of fun. Here I am getting onto the second ride of the day... smiling, but really nervous.
This roller coaster is called The Dragster, and you can see 95% of the roller coaster in this picture. It is a pretty short ride, a total of 17 seconds long. On this ride you reach 120mph in less than 4 seconds. You climb 420 feet to the top of the roller coaster you see behind Chris then drop back down.
This roller coaster is Magnum-XL 200. The tallest and fastest roller coaster when it opened in 1989, a mere 72mph reaching 205 feet into the air.
Chris is in the front seat of this water ride. We had already gone on a water ride, but there was a very short wait and he was eager to get soaked again.
This ride, Raptor, was really fun, especially because we waited to sit in the front row so it really felt like we were flying. We found out the hard way that at night the bugs come out and they aren't very good at dodging the roller coasters. I think I ate at least one bug. After this ride I didn't open my mouth or smile anymore.
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
We don't really have any pictures of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because they don't allow pictures inside the museum. Outside the museum they had Johnny Cash's tour bus. Neither of us knew very much about the development of rock and roll and the early musicians/bands, but after spending some time in the museum we had learned a lot.
We decided to make it a complete rock and roll day, so we went to the Hard Rock Cafe for dinner.
We spent some time just wandering around the Hard Rock Cafe looking at all the rock and roll memorabilia on the walls.
I learned about this piece of modern art in my art history class. So of course we had to go find it and take some pictures of this awesome, giant stamp. This artist has made several large sculptures of ordinary objects and placed them in the downtown areas of major cities.
We found a lot of guitars placed throughout the city.
We went with Mollie to her friend's house to play cards (a different version of King, Queen, Peasant, Scum). They had this silly hat that the king could decide who had to wear it. Chris lovingly decided that when he was king, I had to wear it. Thanks honey :)
Breakfast with Mollie
The end of our stay in Ohio came all too quickly. We all went out for breakfast before we had to leave for our next destination. We miss you Mollie!
Labels: Summer 2010 Road Trip
