bringing the love back to ohio

The title of this post is a shout out for one of our favorite songs that I'll use for the movie of this trip.  We spent the first night in a log cabin in Wytheville, Virginia and did not actually freeze to death but it was cold enough to freeze water in the cabin.

The next day we drove up to Kirtland, Ohio and saw ice along the way.  Each hint of snow was a celebration.  We got over that as we got used to the routine of being really cold.

We had a nice tour of the church history sites in Kirtland.  We had planned to visit the temple and take the CC tour but it turns out they are closed for the winter season.  We walked the temple grounds and had some amazing freaking out by B and P whose hands were cold.

Then the car got stuck in a ditch and we called a tow truck. 

 Since we didn't go on the tour we had time to go to the great lakes science center.  Grandma C got our family a museum membership that allows us to visit any participating science center free.  It was a tremendous blessing to us on this trip. 

 We went to the Great Lakes science center in Cincinati, the COSI in Columbus, and the natural history center in Martinsville, Virginia.  That was 6 wonderful hours of learning, not sitting in the car and not freezing to death.

Our next stop was to see cousins A and O in Columbus and uncle T.  P took the oldest 5 sledding and
later we had Chinese take out for dinner. 

The kids had so much fun with their cousins.  I'm so glad we could come see them.  The next day we got to visit the COSI with them.  T did the opening show and the kids got to see how awesome their uncle is.

We drove some more and saw more snow and ice.  P wanted to get a picture of the kids with some of these ice formations but it didn't seem like we could find a safe place to do that and we're fans of not dying.

We arrived at cousin T's house late on Friday and had a fun time seeing her cute baby Tigger and admiring her home.  T made a delicious brown betty for breakfast and we went to the natural history center in their town.  Nice!

We arrived home around 10pm Friday night and found Sam's family sleeping on the couch cuddled up so cute.  I wish I'd taken a picture of them.  They were down in Florida to visit R's father and I'm glad we got to see them.  We went to Treaty park Saturday for 3 hours!  It was so nice to be outside and not freezing to death.  I really like being home.

It was a really great trip full of family, fun and freezing.