Best Western Cedar Point Area Sandusky

... meet them or see them out of habit. I've gotten a few looks. Also ordering food and normal daily activities - I'll catch myself trying to speak in Spanish. whoops. It's just weird being back in the states. Good, but weird.

I love seeing all of my friends and family. I love the Christmas decorations! I can't wait to go shopping and look at all of the lights around town. Drink hot chocolate. Go ice ...

I just got the bike out of the shop! I've added heated HANDLEBAR inserts (not heated grips), which work great! I also added a cruise-mate lever, so I don't have to mess with that stupid wheel thingey which is standard on the bike.

I also bought Gerbing heated jacket liner and glove liners.

AND, added a mud flap to the ...

I took a trip to the Iron Pony Motorcycle Accessories store in Westerville, Ohio (shameless plug for store inserted here!), where they absolutely EVERYTHING imaginable for a bike rider.

I spent way too much but got new Harley cycle boots, Gerbing heated jacket liner and glove liners. LOVE the heated gear ...

... enjoyed baseball in many venues: The Toledo MudHens playing at Fifth Third Field; The Detroit Tigers at ComericA Park; and the Cleveland Indians at Progressive Field; and base ball (yes, two words is correct) in its vintage form when we spent a lovely afternoon watching the Spiegel Grove Squires play in Spiegel Grove, behind Rutherford B. Hayes' Presidential Home and Museum in ...

Cedar Point Amusement Park is located on the beautiful shores of Lake Erie in Sandusky, Ohio. It is the land of fun and thrills with over 75 rides and attractions. Cedar Point offers the best in roller coaster thrills.

There's lots for kids also. In fact, a section of the park called "four kids' areas" offers 30 rides and attractions for "just their size". These shots were taken especially for our nieces and nephews.

On September 10, 1813, Commodore Oliver Hazaard Perry defeated and captured a British squandron of warships at the Battle of Lake Erie. The battle, fought during the War of 1812, secured control of Lake Erie for the United States and enabled General William Harrison to conduct a successful invasion of Western Upper Canada.

The memorial commemorates Perry's defeat but more importantly it celebrates the lasting peace between the United States and Canada.

... very oddly shaped - we excited to be there. Before we entered we shared a hamburger and chips. A pretty great first impression when you walk in. When you are line to pay they snap your photo with a cool guitar so you can buy it later and we did! We spent numerous hours there viewing the 7 floors and we probably spent the most time in their store - it was huge and a lot to see and buy - $200 bucks later we were out ...

... smaller queues for us!

Shane managed to persuade Sam to ride one of the rollercoasters called the Maverick. From a glance it looked fairly tame, but turned out to be 10 minutes of sheer terror for the woman. He was on his own after that, riding many of the tallest and fastest rollercoasters in the world. Talk about an adrenaline rush!

... s mystery spots and gravity hills. The kid proceeded to run through his repertoire of gravity-defying feats, such as balancing a chair on two legs and standing at a precarious angle to the ground. "Check this out," he said as he let a billiard ball roll up an incline. "It's supposed to be amazing, right? I'm supposed to tell you **** about how this is a mysterious spot where the laws of gravity don't apply, but that's pretty stupid. Of course there's gravity here ...