Ohio, Friday Mar7

Friday morning at O dark 30 we left the house to fly to Ohio for George's mom's memorial service. When we were in Chicago we heard about terrible storms in the east coast and flights would be messed up.  We were in a panic because both Rebecca and Nathan were flying via the east coast.  You may wonder about that since Rebecca was coming from New Mexico and Nathan from Alaska but it is a long story.  But we called them both and suggested that they get to the airport early enough to give time for rerouting.  Come to find out neither one of them had any problems. We arrived in Columbus at 3:30 pm.  George's brother, Rob met us.  We went to his place to hang out until Rebecca and Nathan were due to arrive.  There is still snow on the ground but it is not as cold as I was expecting.

This is the front of Rob and Lisa's home. Rebecca arrived about 6 pm and then Nathan at 7 pm.  We hung out at the cell phone waiting are between the two flights (there is a McDonalds at the cell phone waiting area).  Once we had Nathan we drove to dinner.  It was a nice restaurant with a range of meals.  I had a very good steak.  Nathan ordered some blue cheese potato chips as a starter which were very hard to resist.  

We ordered drinks at the bar until our table was read.  Cute place with a lot of Andy Warhol pictures around.

No one we know but the gum ball machine was pretty impressive.  Rob and Lisa then went home in Lisa's car and Rob let us borrow his.  We drove to the Homewood Suites - it is in the Hilton Family.  Very nice rooms with a little kitchen.

It may have only been 8 pm Oregon time but at 11 pm Ohio time I was ready to crash.  They are having a heat wave this week - it hit 56 degrees yesterday and it is supposed to be in the 40s for the next few days.  I am thrilled because I was expecting it to be in the 20s with snow.  so we are lucky.