Columbus, OH

May 24 - May 28, 2012

We spent Memorial Day weekend in Columbus, OH visiting Rick's son Mark and his wife Cristin. We stayed at a campground about 20 miles away in Delaware, OH. It's a pretty decent place, but it was absolutely packed with families and their RV's intent on kicking off the summer with a bang. It wasn't exactly a quiet and peaceful campground, especially because, you guessed it, there were trains running nearby, every hour or two,all night long! Ohio's experiencing a heatwave; it's cooler at home in Florida than it is here right now. But that hasn't stopped the Memorial Day revellers from sitting around their campfires each evening. We like a campfire as much as the next camper, but this is ridiculous. The air is so heavy with smoke that we were convinced that the smoke alarm was going to go off in our RV. (It didn't.)

While Mark and Cristin were working on Friday we visited the Olentangy Indian Caves. These small but interesting caves were used by local Indians and later as a hideout by outlaws.

Later we met Mark and Cristin for dinner at Rick's 2nd favorite restaurant in the world: Schmidt's Sausage House, a wonderful German restaurant in the German district of Columbus.

On Saturday, Rick's brother Mike brought his daughter Simran to the campground. Mark and Cristin joined us along with their dogs Chip and Tater. They brought their grill, some food, and we had a Memorial Day cookout along with the masses at the campground. There's nothing better than celebrating the holidays with family.

It was yellow shirts and khaki shorts day.

On Sunday we went to the movies with Mark and Cristin and saw the Hunger Games. I've never read the books, but really enjoyed the movie. Later we had dinner with Cristin's family at another local restaurant, Montgomery Grill. Before we went to dinner we met at Cristin's sister's house for drinks and appetizers and worried about what effect hurricaine Beryl would have on our home in FL. (See weather map on tv in picture!) Good thing we put the hurricaine shutters up before we left.

We leave in the morning for Elkhart, Indiana.