Alec's+Travel+Journal

July 25, 2010 Dear, Journal I woke in the morning at 7:00 am. My Mom said "get in the car !" So I got in the car and we put on our "after burners" and drove to Akron. My sister Lauren kept humming this Hannah Montana song. It was getting annoying, thats my sister for you. We drove straight to an awesome hotel, it was called Quaker square inn .It took about 2 hours to get there. After we got checked in, we went to Harry London Chocolates. It was awesome! got a get a tour of the place, it was gigantic. We drove back to our hotel with handfuls of chocolate! I asked if we could go to Paintball Zone. I was pretty sure my dad was going to say no but he said yes! So we went to Paintball Zone. Lauren was whining the whole way because she didn't want to go. I got this awesome gun it was a rapid fire gun. We started the round and I dove behind a bunker I peeked my head out and saw my Dad's foot, so I shot at it. Of course I missed. I dove back to cover but I got hit in the back by Lauren. Uggggg. We fought a couple more rounds then went back to our hotel. Heres a picture I got of the fighting arena.

My older sister Amanda wanted to go to a indoor pool so we had to. We hopped in the car for the billionth time and went to the swimming pool. We went in then jumped in the swimming pool. I have to admit it was fun. Good Night, -Alec

July 26, 2010 Dear, Journal Today we are going to Toledo. It felt like a billion hours but it was about two. We first went to this really cool hotel it was called Mansion view hotel it was old after that we went straight to fort meigs it is this museum with ancient artillery. It was cool. Then we went straight to another museum. It was called __The SS Willis__ it was a old boat from the military. We got to see torpedos and other things like that. On the way to Cleveland we stopped at Kelly's Island. While we where there we went to glacial grooves. It was this awesome groove in the rock. I'm pooped. Good night, -Alec

July 27, 2010 When we got to Cleveland we went to what looked like a five star hotel but it wasn't. It was called Cleveland Marriott hotel. After we got unpacked we drove to Lake Erie. At Lake Erie we skipped some stones and saw some skydivers so we decided we would go do that. When we got up in the plane I was so nervous. I checked my parachute to see if it was there, of course, it was. We were up at 8,000 feet and about to jump. I jumped. I pulled my parachute at precisely the right moment and I landed perfectly on my feet NOT!! Actually I landed on the ground and crumpled up into a ball. Lauren landed on top of my dad and Amanda landed in a heap about 20 feet away. Then we went back to our hotel and went to sleep. 'night, -Alec

July 28, 2010 We arrived in Columbus, Ohio at 9:00 am. First we went to the Columbus Hotel. After we got settled in, we went to the Olentangy River. Then we went to the North Market to pick up some good Chinese food. It was so good. Good night. -Alec

July 29, 2010 In the morning, we woke up early to go to the Coffman House. It was owned by farmers a long time ago. We took a tour of the Coffman House and played on the park for a while. Then it was lunch time. After lunch we played Monopoly. My mom won. When it was time for dinner we got in the car and drove to Buca di Beppo. We drove home and went to sleep. Good night. -Alec

July 30, 2010 We drove to Cincinnati at 11:00 am. We rented a hotel room at the Holiday Inn. Good thing we packed our golf bags, because we went to play at Avon Field Golf course. My dad won with an 87 and I came in second with 106. Amanda got lucky and got a bogey. We packed up our golf bags and my mom suggested we go on a hike. We went to Houston Woods state park and hiked up to the fossil dig. I found a gagillion bazillion gabillion million year old fossil of a microscopic animal. We went back to our hotel, got on my mom's computer and sold my fossil for a couple of bucks. I guess it wasn't that good of a find. Good night! -Alec

=My google map= media type="googlemap" key="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=116553627988347966210.00047ab4cd7054324f637&ll=40.405904,-83.14318&spn=2.517602,3.227277&output=embed" width="425" height="350"