Cleveland rocks!

President Garfield
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For those of you that really want to know everything, I just added an additional paragraph for something I missed out of my Kentucky entry.

So after brekkie in Kentucky the five of us hit the road, stopping for lunch in Columbus, OH. We had German lunch/dinner at a little part of town called "German Village". It was quite sweet, cobbled streets and some nice buildings.

We got home late afternoon and after some basketball and general playing around, got the kids to bed so that Cathy and I could go to the movies. We went to a little arthouse cinema and saw "Under the Same Moon", a really sweet story about a Mexican mum who moves to LA so that she can send money home to her son.

Sean and Lauren (post-blue-candy-eating)
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In the morning Cathy, Lauren and I went to Lakeview Cemetery, which is a lovely setting, and had a look around President Garfield's memorial/tomb. After that we headed to University Circle where there are a lot of galleries etc., more interesting old buildings, and a Gehry (which apparently the locals don't like but I did!)

I went to the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame after that and the girls went to do something which Lauren would find more interesting :) The Hall was amazing. I could've spent days in there, there are heaps of rooms with music documentaries showing. Highlights included Jimi Hendrix costumes, some original handwritten lyrics (Hendrix's Purple Haze and the Beatles' Lucy in the Sky, amongst others), Janis Joplin's Porsche, a model of a David Bowie set... There were also some special exhibitions; a Doors retrospective and behind the scenes of the Beatles movie Help. Up the top they have a mock-up of Pink Floyd's Wall, complete with the otherwordly "teacher".

I could go on but I won't. Music geeks: just get there.

After Sean got home from school we headed out again and wandered around some shops, including a secondhand bookstore where I couldn't resist... then met Derek, and Cathy's mum, for a yummy Lonely Planet-recommended dinner.

After dinner (and after reading 6 books to the kids) we watched basketball, I tried a local beer (9%!) and Derek's basketball-winning-formula margarita.