Day 5 of "Indy" Spring Break

Today was perhaps not the most "productive" of days of our vacation. Things didn't work out quite as well as Bruce would have liked them to...not that anything went wrong, just not too exciting. We started out by leaving our hotel near Columbus, OH, and traveling into Columbus.  We were headed to the Ohio History Center when lo and behold we spied a sign that said "Scrapbook Expo"!  WOWIE ZOWIE!  Upon further exploration...sure enough, there was a scrapbook event, so Bruce and Allison dropped me off there for a couple of hours, and those two went to the History Center.  Two hours was enough to shop for scrapbooking items, when I really don't need anything else, and a lot of it was stamping anyway.  But I certainly enjoyed the diversion.  They enjoyed the History Center too.  Bruce said he was glad he had ALlison along because a lot of it was actually geared toward children, and had he gone by himself, he would have been very disappointed and probably asked for some sort of refund.  Allison said she had a good time.

We ventured further into the city proper of Columbus, and really didn't feel that we found that much. It was a typical capital/goverment based city.  Not a lot of character.  We found a section of the town called "German Village" and it was really very neat. I probably should have tried to get some sort of picture of the buildings. They were all fairly uniform red brick houses that looked like they had been there for many years, with little shops and cafes on corners every couple of blocks.  We stopped at a store that was advertising a huge book sale.  "The Book Loft" or some such thing. They said there were 32 rooms of books for sale, and that was pretty close to accurate I suppose. I actually had to give up after not too long because it was so jam packed. I've never been in anything quite like it.  I really didn't like it. I didn't see a lot of rhyme or reason to it all. I did buy a couple of hardback children's picture books for $5.99, and one for Allison on cats.  I also bought a DVD copy of "Casablanca" which everyone should own for $6.99, so it worth the stop I suppose.  We had coffee and a snack at a nearby cofffee shop.  We then drove...and drove in the rain.  We ended up in an area close to Dayton, and that is where we are staying tonight.  Bruce was feeling a little cruddy about how the day turned out, but he took Allison to the swimming pool at the hotel, and that helped.  Upon research, I found a new type of restaurant to go to for dinner, and that helped too.  It was called Quaker Steak & Lube.  It was a hoot!!!!!


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