Prompt 1 - Trip. What was your best trip in 2009?
this is easy. not only was this the best trip of 2009, but it was also the best trip of my entire life.
last christmas, i bought justin tickets to see a cleveland cavaliers game. instead of just handing him tickets though, i made him a book of things to do while we were there. i booked two nights at the hilton, provided menus to a few different restaurants, and listed day and nighttime activities for us to try. the game i got tickets to wasn't until february, and it just so happened that we both left our jobs earlier that month. we were unemployed, but the trip had already been paid for, and we desperately needed to get out of this city!
we left saturday morning, after packing snacks for the two hour car ride. we set the gps, and set off on our first real adventure, just the two of us. when we got to cleveland, and checked in at the hotel, we immediately wanted to check out the city! we walked around for about an hour, just to see what was close by. the game wasn't til sunday night, so we had plenty of time to explore!
saturday night we went out on the town. we had dinner at a delicious restaurant called The Waterstreet Grill, that had the best chocolate/espresso martini i've ever tasted in my life!! i can't remember all the different bars we went to that night, except Flannery's, because we made the cab driver drop us off there when he told us it was a cool place. he was right, we loved it!
sunday was our day to really see some of the attractions on our list. we started out the day with iHop, which we fell in love with. (they're opening one near us in March, and we're counting down the days!) we decided against paying to go into the Rock and Roll HOF, but we drove around it and the Brown's stadium.
don't worry, Alexa, he's only pretending to pee on the Brown's stadium :)
we're pittsburghers, what do you expect?
my favorite part of the weekend was saturday afternoon, when we went on a tour of "A Christmas Story House"!! this was seriously amazing, and if you're ever in cleveland you just have to go there. i promise.
after spending the afternoon exploring, we got ready for the real reason we were in town. the Cavs and justin's man-crush, LeBron James.
first we had dinner and pre-gamed at The Winking Lizard, and then headed over to the Q for the game. we had so much fun!! we had our matching jerseys on, and justin bought a new hat and a "witness" t-shirt at the stadium. the cavs won the game, and we both agreed we need to go back this season! especially now that Shaq is on the team :)
after the game, we went back to Flannery's which ended up being our favorite bar of the weekend! they had live irish music playing, which is always a fun time.
sunday we took another walk, checked out Malley's Chocolate Factory, and headed home.
best.weekend.ever.
