Day 6 - Monroe, MI to Austintown, OH - 200 Miles

  Youngstown, Ohio, United States
Thursday, June 26, 2008

Thursday morning here and getting started for the day.  Yesterday we traveled from Monroe Michigan back to Cleveland for the Indians vs. Giants.  After the day we drove about an hour to Austintown OH.  We had another great day.

We left Monroe around 11 and drove about an hour and a half back to Cleveland where we had been on Saturday.  We went to

Slymans

Slymans deli for lunch which is has the "Best Corned Beef in Cleveland"

Corned Beef

- it was amazing.  We

Menu

got there around 2 pm

Crowd at Slymans

and it was still packed.  It is a little off the beaten track.  We could only get carry out so we drove back

Hair raising

over near the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to

Piano

go to the Great Lakes Science Center and ate it there.

Along the way we saw some more Cleveland sites and then went and enjoyed the science center for a few hours.  Lots of interactive exhibits.  The kids actually wanted to go and enjoyed it.

Hannah MRI

Around 5 we headed

Great Lakes Puzzle

over to

Free

Progressive Field.  On Saturday, I had some road rage navigating the

Stamp

Cleveland streets.  Things were going well yesterday until I took a left turn by the stadium.  Uh oh.  Well the Cleveland cop was nice and he let me go with a promise to "pay attention to the signs while visiting town".

Progressive Field

Luckily we were right at the stadium

Statue

so we moved on.

I think it is my favorite so far.  Of course Wrigley is

Center Field

special and different but this place has all the amenities.  They have an awesome center field food court and bar and

Heritage Park

Heritage Park, which

Sign

has plaques

Plaque

for all the Indian hall of famers and the top 100 indians of all time as voted in 2001

Scoreboard

by the fans when the park opened.

Before the game started the boys went down to the field.  Everyone was so nice.  I like the midwest.  They had a lucky trip.

Giants

Bryan got Casey Blake's autograph on his bag and Mike got Tim Linecum

Giants

of the Giant's autograph

The boys and autographs

on a ball he ran and got.

Our seats were in centerfield and SO close.

Grady

Grady Sizemore, the Indians star was about 30 feet away from us.  He is awesome.  Every inning 

Aaron Rowan

he threw the warm up ball into the stands.  The first one landed 

Grady

1 person away from Hannah. It was so fun.  He made an amazing catch. I haven't watched baseball tonight but I would imagine it was on top 10.  The Giants won, but it was such a great game.  The Indians did have a rally in the 7th and the drum guy

Drum Guy

was very close to us and had the beat going.