We couldn't have had a more Eventful Weekend

It was something we have been talking about with our friends for around 1 month now...DATE NIGHT'S. It began with a dinner out,including Vienna, at what I had heard was a yummy place to eat...Mr. Hero. It has Romanburgers??? Have no idea what that is? Neither did we, but my co-worker had one for lunch and was ranting about it. Well, the particular location closest to our house was, for a lack of better words...EXTREMELY GHETTO! No pics sorry. It appeared as though a few tables had been stolen from there sitting area. So for those of you dying to know what a Romanburger is, well it is like a sub, but with patties, pastrami and much greasier and warmed. It's hard to desribe, but lets just say, we've tried it and probably won't go back. Afterward we headed to the couples house that will be child swapping with for date nights once a month to drop off our little lady.
Then Mike and I were off to downtown Cleveland to enjoy something called, Ingenuity Fest 2010. (An artsy fartsy festival with street performers, innovative ideas, various art and display tables) It was being held at a monumental bridge that divides the East and West sides of the City, and this takes place under the bridge where at one point it was used, but is now blocked off) Anyway, Mike's phone is our saving grace for everything, most importantly it is our GPS and the battery was very low. We had a great night (see pics and enjoyed our time just the 2 of us). On our way home, we tried to use his phone to do one quick search, but the battery was too low to do anything, so...well you guessed it we got HORRIBLY LOST. With one-ways and freeways we found ourselves heading quite out of the way to get our little girl, so we took an exit hoping to eventually find a street that we recognized. I will keep it short, but we ended up in yet another EXTREMELY GHETTO area. After 20mins of hoping to find our way out of the mess, but instead getting deeper and deeper into places that were scarier and scarier, we got the idea to call the Fitzners (our babysitters) and they rescued us. When we got home we looked up the area in and it was the top 21st neighborhoods in the USA!!! DO YOU HEAR THIS...THE USA!!!!!!! That is why we both were terrified to stop and ask for help and any red light we came to made me so nervous. Don't get me wrong but Cleveland is great as long as you stay in the right neighborhoods. We made it alive, Thankfully (and I am not being sarcastic).

Saturday started out straight forward with Mike going to play b-ball early in the am, when he arrived home he had some BAD news for us, he sprained his ankle super bad. Take a look...



We had lots planned for the day, so this was a big bummer, but Mike was a trooper and we were still able to do some great things. Thank goodness the Pearson's had some random crutches in their attack.
Working on the basement, as we are still trying to get it fully in order and unpacked, has been on the TO-DO LIST for over 2 months now. All was going well until we found a mouse that got stuck to a sticky trap that was still alive, so Mike had to take it outside and do away with it, which was not an event I wanted to deal with. Luckily in the afternoon we got to enjoy the fresh fall air at the Squire Valleyvue Farms that CASE owns. They were having a Fall Harvest Festival which was free for Mike and Vienna and only $3 for me. There was food, cookie decorating, tall grass maze, herb identifying contests, performers, bonfire with smores, planting herbs and veggies, hay rides, bee keeping instructions and lots of other activities. It was wonderful, I am so surprised more people didn't take advantage of it. Vienna loves being outside so it couldn't have been any better (except Mike was hobbling around on crutches). We watched BSU play Oregon State in the evening, which is always nice and Mike was thrilled to have his foot up and icing. Poor guy :(


In the Bridge

Sitting on a chair made from Cardboard rolls - it was all about being green and recycling.

This is the bridge we were in - my camera is cheap, but it is super cool and the red stuff you see is water, they turned a section of the bridge into a waterfall just for this event.

This was the white room where EVERYTHING could be drawn on. there were chairs, tv's, toys, couches. It was so cool to see all the creativity and a great way to reuse old items.

Mike and I left our Mark by drawing teeth and writing...Go Masticate! (look it up, its not naughty)


At Valleyvue Farm



My cookie that I decorated, oh yeah!

Vienna and I on the Hayride, Look at that face.

The hayride took us to a place called the Manor House. It is quite gorgeous, a huge home built in 1929 owned by a rich Cleveland Lawyer who lived here during the summer and payed people to work on the farm, he donated it to CASE, the school President's lived there and now it has been turned into an event center. I loved it and I think it would be the best Bed and Breakfast EVER!!! It was so picturesk!


Mike with his crutch, how cute!

To say the least, we were pooped from all those events, Mike's ankle was even more swollen and tight when we woke up and my throat was sore so we stayed home today to rejuvinate and relax.
Heres to a less eventful week!