explore the city where i live

. . . and another one is opening. We had a GREAT time in the Cleveland area over the past three years, but in a couple of weeks , it’s on to Mobile! Looking forward to never having to shovel snow again!!

Took Julia and two of her friends to Tudor House for afternoon tea. Not cheap but worth it for the lovely time we all had. Definitely more of a girlfriend thing. I highly recommend the fish and chips (I liked the fish, kids devoured the chips) and the strawberries and clotted cream , which vanished within a minute of being put in front of each little girl.

If you have a girl in elementary school, take her and her friends out for a real-life tea party and forget about Hannah Montana.

So last year I visited a couple of Antwerp’s museums, and a fling in the summer led me to discover new restaurants and neighbourhoods. I still have a bunch of museums and old churches on my list – and here’s hoping for more summer nights in the city.

Petting sharks was interesting. It was a pretty huge contrast between how the manta rays felt and the sharks. One is velvety and one is like sand paper. Julia and her friend Kiah wanted to spend the whole time going from one petting tank to another. They were not nearly as interested in just looking at the fishes in the larger tanks.

Rainbow Harbor was very beautiful at night. I would include a picture but Dennis dropped his camera in the shark tank.

to the Nauti Mermaid tonight. I hear it’s pretty darn good. Plus, i really like the name!

and found it to be #2 of the 10 most stressful metropolitan areas in which to live, second only to Detroit.

50 cities were ranked: you can look through the results here.

took us to University Circle, through many of Cleveland’s Cultural Gardens, back up through Case Western Reserve’s campus, through Little Italy, & then (slowly and trudgingly) back home. My photos are here.

. . . with my “Hunny” today, and boy are my dogs tired!! Going to bed early tonight!! See the pictures on my Flickr account. ‘Nite Ya’ll ;-)

. . . going there today!!

it’s incredible at happy hour. This was our my second Friday in a row there. I highly recommend it.