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rosieknightToday was the big day, the whole reason we made this trip.
My maternal grandfather turned 85 on Friday, June 19th, and all he really wanted was a family photograph with as many of his children and grandchildren as possible.
So, today he got it.
In an interesting note, we'd had a family portrait done for his 80th birthday and we'd managed to get the same photographer who'd taken that one to do this picture.
This morning - at 10, all of my mom's siblings, two of my cousins, and my immediate family gathered at the complex my grandfather lives in and got photographed. We did both indoor and outdoor shots, because the weather was nice and the complex has a beautiful garden right by the room the photographer set up in.
Hopefully, we'll hear about the pictures soon.
After the photograph session, we went to lunch at an nearby Marion's pizza. It's a family run restaurant, with good food. It's one of the restaurants that you should visit if you're in the area, just to say you've had it. It's a local favorite and the food's good too! (I just wish that my family hadn't been out-voted about getting pizza. We'd had it last night!)
After lunch, we introduced my Mom's sister to the Dog and got caught up with her.
We ended up talking until it was time to leave for dinner with Grandpa at a restaurant called the Golden Lamb.
The Golden Lamb is one of my Grandfather's favorite places to go for special occasions. It' the oldest continuously used hotel in Ohio and has been visited by 12 American Presidents and several celebrities, including Charles Dickens and Mark Twain.
Mom's sister has nicknamed the Golden Lamb the "slaughtered Lamb", as all the dishes include some form of meat, so vegetarians be aware of this.
Still, the turkey dinner they offered tonight was good and all you can eat. Desert wasn't included, but the raspberry sherbert was tasty.
Prices are on the steep side, though.
I do have to wonder how the Golden Lamb is as hotel, since I've never spent the night there. (I'm pretty sure it's not pet friendly, so we'd have to leave the Dog behind, and that's not happening.)
We chatted with Grandpa and the relatives a bit after dinner. It was nice and I learned more about Grandpa's time in the Navy during World War II. Amusingly, he'd been in the Navy for 38 months and was never on a boat during that time. He remained State-side as a teacher, instead.
Afterward, we headed back here, where we discovered that the hotel is playing host to a multi-year school reunion. I can currently hear part of it though both the music on my headphones and the closed business center door.
Hopefully, they won't stay too late and disturb the Dog to the point of keeping us up...
Oh well, I'll deal with that if it happens.
See you tomorrow.
RK.
My maternal grandfather turned 85 on Friday, June 19th, and all he really wanted was a family photograph with as many of his children and grandchildren as possible.
So, today he got it.
In an interesting note, we'd had a family portrait done for his 80th birthday and we'd managed to get the same photographer who'd taken that one to do this picture.
This morning - at 10, all of my mom's siblings, two of my cousins, and my immediate family gathered at the complex my grandfather lives in and got photographed. We did both indoor and outdoor shots, because the weather was nice and the complex has a beautiful garden right by the room the photographer set up in.
Hopefully, we'll hear about the pictures soon.
After the photograph session, we went to lunch at an nearby Marion's pizza. It's a family run restaurant, with good food. It's one of the restaurants that you should visit if you're in the area, just to say you've had it. It's a local favorite and the food's good too! (I just wish that my family hadn't been out-voted about getting pizza. We'd had it last night!)
After lunch, we introduced my Mom's sister to the Dog and got caught up with her.
We ended up talking until it was time to leave for dinner with Grandpa at a restaurant called the Golden Lamb.
The Golden Lamb is one of my Grandfather's favorite places to go for special occasions. It' the oldest continuously used hotel in Ohio and has been visited by 12 American Presidents and several celebrities, including Charles Dickens and Mark Twain.
Mom's sister has nicknamed the Golden Lamb the "slaughtered Lamb", as all the dishes include some form of meat, so vegetarians be aware of this.
Still, the turkey dinner they offered tonight was good and all you can eat. Desert wasn't included, but the raspberry sherbert was tasty.
Prices are on the steep side, though.
I do have to wonder how the Golden Lamb is as hotel, since I've never spent the night there. (I'm pretty sure it's not pet friendly, so we'd have to leave the Dog behind, and that's not happening.)
We chatted with Grandpa and the relatives a bit after dinner. It was nice and I learned more about Grandpa's time in the Navy during World War II. Amusingly, he'd been in the Navy for 38 months and was never on a boat during that time. He remained State-side as a teacher, instead.
Afterward, we headed back here, where we discovered that the hotel is playing host to a multi-year school reunion. I can currently hear part of it though both the music on my headphones and the closed business center door.
Hopefully, they won't stay too late and disturb the Dog to the point of keeping us up...
Oh well, I'll deal with that if it happens.
See you tomorrow.
RK.
