Thursday morning, very bright and early, Ryan and I hopped on a plane to Cleveland to visit friends and family and to have our wedding reception out there. As soon as we got in, we checked into our hotel and met up with my parents to go to Hot Dog Heaven, of course. This little restaurant lets you put on just about any random condiment you could think of and they give you a huge load of fries and cheese, too. It's a favorite of ours. (We ate a total of 12 hot dogs in 2 days... this was apparently an important part of our trip).
Hot Dog Heaven:
After sleeping in on Friday, Ryan, my dad, and I drove to Kirtland to do all the tours. We went to the visitor's center, the N.K. Whitney Store, the Kirtland temple, and the John Johnson farm. It was beautiful weather and rained for a just a few minutes in the afternoon, making everything even greener and prettier than it already was. There weren't a lot of people touring today, so by the time we got to the John Johnson farm, we had our own private tours, which allowed the guides to give us more details and stories. After all the Kirtland stuff, we joined up with my mom and went out to eat at an awesome Cleveland pizza place, Danny Boy's.
Saturday was the day of our reception. It was so fun to see a lot of family and friends that I haven't seen in years!!! Not only was it beautiful outside, allowing us to go out on the patio for a bit, but my mom made it beautiful inside (the pictures don't do it justice).
The Birch Room at the Fairview Park Recreation Center:
The sign-in table:
The beautiful tables:
The Centerpieces:
The food table (raspberry-almond torts, triple chocolate cake, key lime pie, cheesecake w/ strawberries, cream puffs, eclairs, twizzlers, peanuts... basically the whole shebang):
Nicole and Tyler came all the way from Pennsylvania to see us! Nicole and I were in the same group in the MPA program and became great friends through late-night stats studying and a lot of non-MPA stuff too! Apparently the pictures of us with my mom's side of the family is on my dad's camera. I'll have to post those later.
After church on Sunday, we met up with some extended family for a late lunch before heading to the airport back to Cleveland. It was a quick trip, but definitely fun and definitely a good break from school and work!
5 comments:
Your reception looks so nice! Glad you had a good time!
Fun times! I love that you have a place called Hot Dog Heaven to go to, ha ha. My grandparents opened the Kirtland mission as mission presidents and served there like 4 different times, so I have def been there and heard many stories! It was cool to see pictures. My brother is moving to Ohio for dental school in August. Got any Ohio tips that I can give him??? other than Hot Dog Heaven, of course!
Hold up. You and Ryan ate 12 hot dogs in 2 days?? You are like the competitive eaters who go to Coney Island on the 4th of July. I never knew you had such a gift!
That's the biggest pile of fries I've ever seen!!
Your reception looks like it turned out really nice. The food sounded yummy, too!
I love your hair! Did you get it cut recently?
#1 I agree that the pile of fries in that picture looks amazingly HUGE! We need to go back to Cleveland sometime JUST to check that place out! Haha
#2 I feel really special that we made your blog!!!
#3 It was so super fun to see you. I think you should just move out here. Really soon, k?
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