So this weekend was an all star Cleveland Winter Weekend. Funtimes all around despite the craziness of this weather. And I'm so thankful because by Friday things were getting a bit... well...
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| THERE WERE TWO MORE SNOWDAYS AFTER THIS PICTURE OMG. |
But! The weather finally broke! As of today school is FINALLY back in session!
Anyways Friday was the first fish fry of the season and since we were all a bit stir crazy I bundled up the kids and headed out to the Slovenian Home for some polka and pierogies - the girl's favorite food:
The dude preferred to hang out at the bar. And got everyone at our table a round so that we would sing him the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Song (seriously. that happened.)
Tiny just loved the food and bopping to the music:
It was funtimes for all. We'll probably be back this week!
Then on Saturday my parents took ALL 3 KIDS OMG overnight so that we could go to Brite Winter.
Our friends from New York were in town along with a whole crew of their
NYC friends plus a whole bunch of Cleveland natives. It was awesome.
I was worried about the whole outdoors in winter aspect of the festival but it was quite fun, actually. I forgot how awful summer festivals can be with the hot and the sweating and the drinking too much because it's hot. Blah. Winter festivals are where it's at. Handknits everywhere! Alpaca as fashion accessory of choice! My kindof situation. You know what else keeps you warm? Flasks:
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| My brother and Matt both brought flasks. When the picture came out
blurry they refused to let me retake it. So Dan and I took a selfie
instead. Notice the squished bangs. Blergh. |
At one point we headed to the Cleveland Hostel - where the NYC crew was staying - to warm up (and use a clean restroom). I'd never been in there before but it was quite nice. Such a cool thing to have in Cleveland.
Also cool? Tower City Lights. I'm not sure how the conversation got started but at one point someone was all "no seriously. Jeanne. Please ask the Terminal Tower to change colors for us." And I was all... Wait, what? Ok. So I tweeted @towercitylights and asked. And they did!
The lights stayed the same all evening except for the show they put on just for us - it was insane. We were literally dancing in the street to their light show:
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| Terminal Tower is in the background - we tweeted this picture back as a thank you. |
Most of the crew went home when the bars closed... but Matt and I were all pro. We were determined to end the night with Edison's pizza. So we moved the carseats out of the way, loaded up our minivan with whoever was still vertical, and headed to tremont for some of the best pizza in Cleveland. I think it was 3:30 before we found our way home. Funtimes, indeed.
And I'll end with my favorite line of the night.... the NYC people were talking about how you have to move to the suburbs if you want to have kids. And how un fun that will be. And how it wouldn't be possible to have kids in the city. My response?
"You can absolutely raise kids in the city. You don't have to move to the suburbs. You just have to move to Cleveland."
YUP.
