First day in Ohio

Hello from Ohio!

We had a very nice drive up. Thunderstorms and rain in NC recently made me worry about our journey, but it stayed clear and dry the whole way. There are raindrops on the hotel window this morning, so it must have caught up with us overnight. The room is great! This being the first time I have really lived alone, without needing to worry about motherly duties, I packed all kinds of hobbies to keep me busy for the 9 weeks I will be here, so we had a lot of things to haul in from the car. Got the room all set up, and went shopping for groceries. I have a full fridge, a stove top and microwave here. The hotel supplies a hot breakfast every morning, and dinner four nights a week, with a salad bar. Boy, am I going to be spoiled! I told Keith last night that I could almost start singing "I think I'm going to like it here!" like Little Orphan Annie in the musical.

Last night we tried out Graeters Ice Cream - man, it is worth the 8 hour drive just for that! They have very smooth ice cream with giant chips formed by pouring liquid chocolate into the ice cream as it is finishing. I had black raspberry with chocolate chips, and Keith had coconut with chocolate chips - both flavors worth exploring at home! Besides waffle cones, and sugar cones, they have pretzel cones - plain and dipped in chocolate. I think a really sweet flavor would be so good with a salty cone like that. On my list to try out!

Today we are going to finish the settling in process, buy me a good map so I can start learning my position in the world when I am running around and we are going to see a movie. Keith flies home tomorrow - but I refuse to think about that yet.

Ciao!

Leslie