This final post of our October Cleveland trip is dedicated to Mommy and Daddy Jean. I keep this blog all about the kids (mainly because these books are expensive to print out, so I have to censor what I post, so to speak....that, and our adult lives are totally uninteresting, haha), but I will make an exception this time, as without a wedding to celebrate, there would be no children. So kids, when you are reading this, your father and I celebrated our seventh wedding anniversary while we were up in Cleveland. Maw Maw and Pop Pop Sattelmeyer watched the kids for a couple of nights while Phil and I returned to the scene of the crime from seven years ago. It was totally awesome. As Dave Matthews sings, "You and me together; we can do anything...baaaaby". I love you, Phillip Jean.
We spent a couple of nights at the Wyndham Hotel, which is where we spent our wedding night. It is a couple of doors down from the Cleveland Athletic Club, where we had our wedding reception.
This is a picture of us in our suite. As soon as we stepped into the room, we both went, "Aaah, I totally remember this".
This is a picture of Phil and I in the elevator in 2012....
...and this is a pic of Phil and I in the elevator in 2005, the morning after our wedding.
The Cleveland Athletic Club and Wyndham Hotel is on Playhouse Square, which is where there are four theaters.
This is Phil and I posing outside of the Cleveland Athletic Club.
And this picture made us want to cry. The CAC apparently closed several years ago due to financial issues. What a waste; that place was so beautiful. The CAC was founded in 1908 and closed it's doors 99 years later. What an absolute shame.
Following our depression at viewing the CAC in it's disparity, we decided to cheer ourselves up with a visit to the West Side Farmer's Market, an establishment that is also almost a century old.
We were pretty impressed with the size and PRICES of the shrimp at the farmer's market...not sure why we pay more for shrimp in a coastal area where shrimp is abundant. But whatever.
Remember this lamp from "A Christmas Story"? The movie was filmed in Cleveland. Not sure who the creeper is in the lower left-hand corner who is photo-bombing my picture.
We had lunch one day at the amazing Great Lakes Brewing Company. YUM.
It's basement kind of creeped me out. It kind of reminded me of the tour we went on at the Old Provost Dungeon in Charleston....lots of history in these old places.
Taking a quick drive-by of what I will always call Jacobs Field.
Cleveland is really trying to revitalize the downtown area. This is a street called Live! on 4th Street! I think they are copying off of Louisville's 4th Street Live! area, which is a pretty fun area of downtown Lousiville. Cleveland must be doing a good job of all of the revamping, as we actually felt pretty safe walking the streets of downtown during our stay, which is more than I can say from 10 years ago.
We walked over to Tower City one night to watch a movie and hit the new casino.
Horseshoe Casino, which just opened up this spring. It was pretty cool inside.
Phil always has the best of luck at these slot machines. He won over $30 dollars at the nickel slots. Ker-ching!
Loving this armored battle vehicle that is randomly driving the streets of Cleveland. Is this why the streets of Cleveland are being deemed as safer??
Aaah... October 15, 2005. An amazing night.....and a fantastic trip down memory lane 7 years later.
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