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Jun. 20th, 2009 09:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladydoujiI went on a short vacation to Ohio to visit family without the stress of OMG!Christmas
Monday:
Had a 7:10am flight so didn't bother sleeping the night before. I thought I got to the airport in plenty of time but the lines for the security were insane and I got to the gate at 7:00am way closer then I would like. The flight up was uneventful and my uncle Jim picked me up. I got to nap for a couple hours and we went out to see Up, hitting a comic book store that happened to be next to the theater. I got some trades and vol 1 of the new Red Robin series. Up is another excellent movie from Pixar/Dreamworks and fortunately not as anvilicious as Happy Feet and Wall-E.
Tuesday:
I had been really looking forward to this day as I got to go to the great and holy Mecca of Rollercoasters, Cedar Point up in Sandusky, OH. And found out that my uncle, doesn't like heights or coasters. I had a great time, most of the lines were short except for Millennium Force, Top Thrill Dragster, and the Maverick. We didn't make it onto all of the coasters, skipping over Mantis(I hate standing coasters) Iron Dragon, and Maverick(line was too long and I was getting tired) and probably some of the smaller coasters as well. I wasn't able to get Jim onto the Top Thrill Dragster(0-120mph in 4 secs) going 420ft straight up and then straight down at 120mph. It is sooo completely awesome. And from the Millennium Force I have an absolutely classic picture(need to scan it later) My arms are up, look of pure joy and exhilaration on my face, Jim pressing back against the seat, eyes squeezed tight and grimacing. We also beat the guessing games a few times(won every time too) so I now have three new plush puppies. Picked up a t-shirt and shot glasses as souvenirs when I was finally done for the day.
Wednesday:
Went up to visit my grandmother for a short time. We talked for a little bit and she gave me an embroidered tablecloth she made(that I have no idea what to do with but couldn't say no) Then I had to drive up to Millersburg to buy Holmes County cheese. That was a slightly weird experience, standing at the deli counter and buying almost 20lbs of cheese and nothing else. Although the people at the counter seemed to understand and said it happened when people went on trips and such.
Thursday:
Uncle Jim and I went to check out COSI(center of science and industry) It's more geared to kids and getting them interested in science and technology, but there was still some interesting things. I was bummed that I couldn't ride the high-wire unicycle because I was wearing the wrong kind of shoes. Later Grandpa took us out for barbecue, and Jim and I went and saw Star Trek in Imax. One thing I noticed during my second viewing. the uniforms are made out fabric patterned with the starfleet insignia giving them a slightly scaley look rather than flat fabric. Pretty nice actually. Still loving the movie and must buy when it comes out on dvd.
I gave up trying to sleep on the old nasty pillows in my Grandfather's guest room(they literally make me sick by triggering my allergies) and slept on the couch downstairs until Jim woke me up to get ready for the airport. Had to get a little creative with my packing to fit in the cheese and new plushies, but I did it. Jim dropped me off, I got checked in and then the Gods of Travel began mocking me. First a thunderstorm was rolling through, resulting in a weather delay. When that finally calmed down enough for the flight crew to go out to the plane, they found a maintenance issue, fixed quickly and we got to board, only to deplane about 15 minutes later because a flight attendant was feeling ill and the captain was told it'll be 1 1/2 hours before a sub could be found. Fortunately he was wrong and we got to board again only 20 minutes later, all and all resulting a two hour delay. I counted myself lucky that Houston was my final destination with no connections. My seatmate however needed to get to a connecting flight to Trinidad for a school zoology thing, which only leaves once a day, from a gate on the opposite side of IAH, and was scheduled to take off 25 minutes after we finally landed. As we taxied to the gate the flight attendant asked if the other passengers would please let the 6 people in her group off first, and we did. I hope they made it to their flight.
Headed out to my parents place to deliver the cheese and hung out for a while. Showed Mom and Debbie the picture from Cedar Point which had them cracking up, and mom thinks I should blow it up to poster size and give it to Jim at Christmas. Which I may just do. Finally headed home to my soft fluffy bed of awesome and my cats who were happy to see me(course they thought they could scam an extra meal out of me)
Monday:
Had a 7:10am flight so didn't bother sleeping the night before. I thought I got to the airport in plenty of time but the lines for the security were insane and I got to the gate at 7:00am way closer then I would like. The flight up was uneventful and my uncle Jim picked me up. I got to nap for a couple hours and we went out to see Up, hitting a comic book store that happened to be next to the theater. I got some trades and vol 1 of the new Red Robin series. Up is another excellent movie from Pixar/Dreamworks and fortunately not as anvilicious as Happy Feet and Wall-E.
Tuesday:
I had been really looking forward to this day as I got to go to the great and holy Mecca of Rollercoasters, Cedar Point up in Sandusky, OH. And found out that my uncle, doesn't like heights or coasters. I had a great time, most of the lines were short except for Millennium Force, Top Thrill Dragster, and the Maverick. We didn't make it onto all of the coasters, skipping over Mantis(I hate standing coasters) Iron Dragon, and Maverick(line was too long and I was getting tired) and probably some of the smaller coasters as well. I wasn't able to get Jim onto the Top Thrill Dragster(0-120mph in 4 secs) going 420ft straight up and then straight down at 120mph. It is sooo completely awesome. And from the Millennium Force I have an absolutely classic picture(need to scan it later) My arms are up, look of pure joy and exhilaration on my face, Jim pressing back against the seat, eyes squeezed tight and grimacing. We also beat the guessing games a few times(won every time too) so I now have three new plush puppies. Picked up a t-shirt and shot glasses as souvenirs when I was finally done for the day.
Wednesday:
Went up to visit my grandmother for a short time. We talked for a little bit and she gave me an embroidered tablecloth she made(that I have no idea what to do with but couldn't say no) Then I had to drive up to Millersburg to buy Holmes County cheese. That was a slightly weird experience, standing at the deli counter and buying almost 20lbs of cheese and nothing else. Although the people at the counter seemed to understand and said it happened when people went on trips and such.
Thursday:
Uncle Jim and I went to check out COSI(center of science and industry) It's more geared to kids and getting them interested in science and technology, but there was still some interesting things. I was bummed that I couldn't ride the high-wire unicycle because I was wearing the wrong kind of shoes. Later Grandpa took us out for barbecue, and Jim and I went and saw Star Trek in Imax. One thing I noticed during my second viewing. the uniforms are made out fabric patterned with the starfleet insignia giving them a slightly scaley look rather than flat fabric. Pretty nice actually. Still loving the movie and must buy when it comes out on dvd.
I gave up trying to sleep on the old nasty pillows in my Grandfather's guest room(they literally make me sick by triggering my allergies) and slept on the couch downstairs until Jim woke me up to get ready for the airport. Had to get a little creative with my packing to fit in the cheese and new plushies, but I did it. Jim dropped me off, I got checked in and then the Gods of Travel began mocking me. First a thunderstorm was rolling through, resulting in a weather delay. When that finally calmed down enough for the flight crew to go out to the plane, they found a maintenance issue, fixed quickly and we got to board, only to deplane about 15 minutes later because a flight attendant was feeling ill and the captain was told it'll be 1 1/2 hours before a sub could be found. Fortunately he was wrong and we got to board again only 20 minutes later, all and all resulting a two hour delay. I counted myself lucky that Houston was my final destination with no connections. My seatmate however needed to get to a connecting flight to Trinidad for a school zoology thing, which only leaves once a day, from a gate on the opposite side of IAH, and was scheduled to take off 25 minutes after we finally landed. As we taxied to the gate the flight attendant asked if the other passengers would please let the 6 people in her group off first, and we did. I hope they made it to their flight.
Headed out to my parents place to deliver the cheese and hung out for a while. Showed Mom and Debbie the picture from Cedar Point which had them cracking up, and mom thinks I should blow it up to poster size and give it to Jim at Christmas. Which I may just do. Finally headed home to my soft fluffy bed of awesome and my cats who were happy to see me(course they thought they could scam an extra meal out of me)
