Roller Coaster, Favorite Ride

Ok so we went up to Cedar Point last weekend with Katy and Mike and it was amazing. There is nothing like Cedar Point during Halloween, but more about this later. I was a little bored studying for my midterm tomorrow so instead I made a list of my top ten coasters. As you can see it was too hard so it became a top 12 (the last 2 mostly for sentimental reasons). I will try to comment about this later, but this is how I feel. Would love to hear from you if you don’t agree. I know number 9 is Melissa’s favorite, especially in the dark.
Top Dozen Roller Coasters

1. Maverick – Cedar Point (Sandusky, OH)
2. Millennium Force – Cedar Point (Sandusky, OH)
3. Kingda Ka – Six Flags New Jersey
4. Superman: Krypton Coaster – Six Flags San Antonio
5. Kumba – Busch Gardens Florida
6. Nitro – Six Flags New Jersey
7. Kraken – Sea World Orlando
8. Bizarro – Six Flags New Jersey
9. Magnum XL – Cedar Point (Sandusky, OH)
10. El Toro – Six Flags New Jersey
11. Dueling Dragons – Island of Adventures Orlando
12. Montu – Busch Gardens Florida

Birthday Weekend

I thought I would write a little post about the weekend. As I mentioned earlier all the weekends in October are extremely busy and so was this one. We started with Ellie’s second birthday party, which was a blast. Went to a farm in the morning to do the hayride and apple cider thing, very nice. Ellie loved to climb on the pumpkins, which was hilarious to watch. After the farm we went back to Ellie’s house to eat some good hamburgers and pasta salad. There was also a great selection of cakes. One was an Elmo cake, which was cute, but also a little disturbing to see the children eat their hero. Ellie got some really nice gifts too. Many of her aunts and uncles from both sides were there and it was nice that Tom was able to get out of the house and come.

At about 9:30 it was time for the second party. Melissa and I went to celebrate Melissa J’s birthday by going to one of the haunted houses down in the brewery district. Lots of fun at that party too. The house was long and had a good scare level. After a couple of bars we ended up at Tee Jay’s for some delicious breakfast.

Thanks Brent, Stephanie, Melissa and Jim for a pair of great birthdays!

A Busy Weekend

Finally October, what a wonderful month with great weather and good fruit. It will be a jam-packed month with something going on every weekend. The first weekend we were invited down to PAIGE’S PRODUCE , the farm who we have done our CSA program through. Six months of going down to the Circleville farmers market are now over. At the farm we picked out pumpkins, gourds, apples, mums and acorn squash. We also enjoyed corn fresh from the grill, corn bread, apple butter, 2 second old apple cider, and a variety of excellent cookies (the apple cookies were particular scrumptious).

On our way back we had two options for lunch. Option number 1 was THE THURMAN CAFÉ, which is supposed to have the 6th best burger in the U.S. after living her for so long it is a shock that neither one of us has been there yet. Option number 2 was The Ohio Deli, known from the show MAN VS. FOOD where one can tackle the Dagwood, which Adam calls the easiest challenge he has ever done. Unfortunately neither I nor Jim were able to. It was a big sandwich, but it was not the size that was the biggest problem it was the poor quality meet. It was truly awful and so was Stephanie’s and Melissa’s food. I very much recommend people to skip this place and next time we will go to the burger place! If you want to see Adam beat the Dagwood please click HERE.

After the disappointing lunch it was nice to go into a food coma and watch the Buckeyes beat Illinois.

Sunday was more of a work day when a lot of homework got done and also some work on the car with new tires and an oil change. Need to get some new headlights and then both cars are ready for the winter.

Check back for some pictures!

Working Out

With the stress of moving and new jobs and new school one thing that has been forced to take a back seat is working out, which is very unfortunate, but true. Now finally I feel like we are getting into a routine and there is time for working out. Melissa took me, as a guest, to the Denison’s workout facility. I have to say that Wittenberg’s facilities are much better, but it is nice to have an indoor track at Denison. Hopefully this will improve our health and shape, we’ll let you know how it progresses.


Now it is time for some dinner and TV. Castle is on soon!

It’s just another Manic Monday

Nico complained via facebook, I know stick to one social media, that we haven’t posted anything for a while and he is right and this needs to be corrected. After a busy weekend (more about that in future blog posts) it is now a new week, the first one in October already. This is a busy Monday, like most Mondays are, but thanks to Timmy H I think I will get through it. Melissa is driving all the way to Kent State and back for a site visit, last week of those so she will be more in Granville starting next week. I had the pleasure of babysitting little Ellie this morning. She woke up early which was not great for my plan getting some studying done, but we had fun eating yogurt and watching Sesame Street (for the Swedish crowd it is a slightly inferior version to five ants are more than four elephants). After sitting I went straight to the mall to pay my bill for Melissa’s engagement ring (almost fully paid now) and then to OSU for class and study. When I was In the mall I saw that they are opening up a Teavana there, which is pretty exciting! Now I have to study some Micro Economics (Nico’s favorite subject) before class in policy implementation.

Ohio Apples are good

One of the best things with fall in Ohio are the apples. I don’t know what more to say. They are delicious!

Meghan's and Steve’s Wedding

Since we alluded earlier to Marta’s and Kevin’s wedding I thought we should briefly mention the other beautiful wedding we went to this summer. On July 26 Melissa’s friends Meghan and Steve got married. It was held at the Franklin Park Conservatory . and really beautiful. The reception was in the palm house, which made it special and it was cool being surrounded by Chihuly glass. Karyn took this picture of Melissa and me at the event.