Hampton Inn Columbus-South Grove City

... Jackets game and talking about Ohio State
Football. The politics also seemed much more reasonable and easy going
than in S.F. where everything is a constant battle.

It almost seemed as though life was a bit slower and that my town of
Grandview was like the fictional town of "Pleasantville." People get
along and are friendly but unfortunately Ohio State Football is more of
a discussion topic than ...

... br>~Talia's shoe and bracelet obsession! She is always wearing bracelets and even sometimes refuses to take them off before bed. Same thing with the shoes or slippers.
~ Talia is fascinated with Christmas lights, but doesn't really understand what the big deal is about the fat guy in the red suit!
~ Talia has conquered her fear of the bathtub and now sits and plays in the tub, instead of standing and screaming or clawing at the tub like a cat.
~ Talia's ...

... took a 9 hour flight from Paris to Cincinnati, Ohio. On that flight Talia had a little fit because she didn't want to wear her seatbelt, but the flight attendants were great and gave us candies for her and we got her calmed down. From Cinci we took a short flight to Columbus and we were home by 5:30pm Ohio time! We were running through the airport and Talia was shouting, "Americo"! We were met by Scott's parents, my mom ...

Bon voila nous avons fait pas mal de route et sommes installes a Columbus, Ohio dans un Days Inn. Nous sommes partis de Montreal a 7h45 pour arriver ici vers 22h45. Total environ 1150km. Les enfants ont tres bien supporte le voyage. Nous nous dirigeons demain pour Oklahoma City.

Well, here we are in Ohio. We're heading towards Mentor so I can visit some rellies who live there, so we'll either make that our destination today, or do a quick visit into Amish country in Pennsylvania first and then head back towards Mentor.

I only realised ...

... time as we can with family and friends.

Anne and Jeff, (Scott's parents) are coming down on Sunday to get the dogs and visit with us so that will be fun! We have Halloween outfits for the dogs even though we won't be here for Halloween. Everyone make sure that Anne and Jeff dress them up so they look pretty for all the Trick ...

... 9th at 4:30pm. Scott and I both plan on working through October 7th so that we have as much time as we can with the children when we get back home. Luckily OSU has been great with both Scott and I in regards to us taking time off.

Scott flew in from Boston where he had an afternoon work meeting.

The kids and I drove to Columbus after school. We went through Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, West Virginia (again), and finally to Ohio.

We saw a replica of Columbus's Santa Maria on the river in town.

Got up early to catch our plane back the the States. We had a layover in Boston, which got delayed for weather. The flight back was uneventful. Dad picked us up at the airport and we filled him in on all of our trip adventures. We were really tired and jet-lagged when we got back to Ohio, so it was an early night.
What a great trip!

... That airport is so dirty and old and is not comforting to travelers! Has some drinks at the only open cafe in the entire airport as we waited for our flight. We then had to move to another terminal to catch our next flight. The flight to Dublin took off at 0700 the next morning so we were in Ireland bright and early!