Back from Buckeye land

I am back from my trip to Ohio to visit my old college pal Paul and his family. The flights there and back were pretty much great, as I flew out of Daytona Beach airport to Akron via Charlotte, NC. What a treat to not have to deal with the size and traffic of Orlando airport.

My pal Paul and I went to an LPGA (Ladies Professional Golf) event in Toledo, Ohio Friday morning. I am not an avid follower of women's golf like Paul is but it was a great time. Excellent players, good crowds and a beautiful course. We followed two different threesomes through the 18 hole course, including Morgan Pressel, Michelle Wie and Natalie Gulbis. Great players. I was able to get within a few feet of all of them so I guess I will consider it a brush with greatness :) Unfortunately I have no pics from the event because you are not supposed to take pics on the course.

After the golf we found our hotel, a fairly disgusting Comfort Inn, and changed and headed to downtown Toledo for a AAA baseball game between the Toledo Mudhens (Cleveland Indians farm club) and the Columbus Clippers (Detroit Tigers farm club).

Fifth Third Field where the Mudhens play is a really nice stadium in downtown Toledo. We had great seats and saw a good game.

Saturday we headed back to North Canton to get Paul's son John as he was going to the Cleveland Indians game with us Saturday afternoon. We headed up early in the afternoon and hung around downtown Cleveland near the lakefront (Lake Erie) for a while awaiting the 4:00 game.

Around 3:30 we started walking toward the stadium but noticed very little traffic or people for the game. I know the Indians stink but this is ridiculous. We got to the stadium and found it was empty. Turns out they had changed the game time to start a little after 7:00 Saturday night. Paul said he never got an email informing him of the change in start time. Yeah, sure Paul.

Anyway, we decided just to have Paul exchange the tickets for a future game and he will be taking his boys John and Luke to see the Indians later in July. We pretty much just headed back to Paul's place after a couple little stops and called it a day.

'Twas a great time in Ohio seeing my old pal and his family.

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