Arrived Safely. Just In Time to Be Patriotic.

After a wonderful day of driving a UHaul through pouring rain, my family met us in Cleveland to help us unpack.

Family's great, aren't they?

{Sadly, we don't have Internet at our new house. (I KNOW! Totally going to see how we can get that fixed.) But in the meantime, I'm at my parent's house using Internet and saying goodbye to my sister who's moving to Colorado this week. Stupid sister.}

After unpacking, we took our UHaul back (good riddance!) And when we asked where restaurants where, this man welcomed us to the city - "It's a great city!" He pointed us in the direction of Coventry, telling us "it's a real nice place - you can walk around and don't have to worry about anybody begging from you or mugging you. You're gonna absolutely love it."

Right. Something I always look for: the absence of being mugged when eating dinner.

Coventry was absolutely adorable and delicious little Korean-Japanese-Thai restuarant. We even got an entirely vegetarian meal - never say my dad doesn't make sacrafices! (My dark haired sister, mom, Mike and I are vegetarians. Booyah.)

The sweet potato tempura sushi and skinny maki sushi were A-MAZE-ING.

Mom and sister both have high school IDs. For the same high school. Neither go to the school. How cute are they?

After dinner, we explored the cute neighborhood. It was full of unique shops, which is always awesome.

When we took this picture, a man yelled: "Yeah, girls!" Uh, huh. These are two of my sisters. The littlest youngest one is in Mexico.

I decided to run for President of Texas. They told be I could only be Governor. Good enough!

After the grown ups left, (Or, okay, my parents. I guess we're all grown ups. Whatever.) we spent some time assembling Ikea furniture. I cannot get enough of Ikea.

Nice work, guys. I'm going to continue struggling to put together these stupid DVD boxes.

We wanted some ice cream, but by 11:30pm, not many places were open. (Whole Foods, WHY AREN'T YOU OPEN 24 HOURS!?)

So, we found this exciting place:

Hagan Daz mango sorbet, peanut butter m&ms, and Fruity Pebbles. A healthy midnight snack.

What? We couldn't find the spoons....or, the bowls.

Fruity Pebbles taste better when eaten off a wooden spoon.

We came down to Akron yesterday, for some patriotic madness. Like, giving a 10 month old a lighter to play with:


The rest of my pictures of a boys "axing down trees" (with a stick), catching lightening bugs, sparklers, throwing sticks on our bonfire, shoving each other into the sand, and telling me they want to "hit da peeple on der heads" were swallowed up in my SD card. I'm so sad, but trust me when I say: These boys are CUTE. (There were 10 little boy cousins there. TEN. It was grand.)

It's been great. Welcome back to north east Ohio! :)