You may recognize Jordan from my Disney pics...she worked at Wilderness Lodge! |
I flew out on 13th at 5:25 in the morning (ugh), and, after a brief stop in North Carolina, arrived in Dayton around 3:35. Jordan picked me up and she gave me a brief tour of the town before we got to her house. The first night we just hung around her house, which I was perfectly fine with around running around (sometimes literally) a couple airports all day.
The next day we decided to go to the Columbus shopping center (about an hour away) and to a giant indoor trampoline park called SkyZone (identical to Jump Street here in AZ). The shopping center was pretty cool; it had the fanciest AMC theatre entrance I've ever seen in my life
Very art deco |
If I could grow a mustache like that I totally would |
We hung around there for a while, then headed off to SkyZone, which was pretty fun, but we agreed it probably would have been more fun if we had had a larger group and had been able to play dodgeball. We drove back to Jordan's house and I insisted we ate dinner outside because it was so pretty!
How is that grass real?!? |
Or, y'know, all of them.... |
The next day, we drove to an amusement park called Kings Island, home to the world's longest wooden rollercoaster (it also used to be home to the world's tallest and fastest wooden rollercoaster, but it was recently torn down).
Before the terror. |
Again, going to a theme park after working for Disney is pretty weird. Obviously, Kings Island is much smaller, so it can't be held to the same kind of standard, but I really noticed a lot of details I know I would have never cared about had I not worked in Florida. At one point, Jordan and I were waiting to board the next train on a rollercoaster, and there was a worker just being generally friendly and chatting everyone up. He asked if Jordan and I went to theme parks a lot, and we just kind of looked at each other and laughed, and had to explain to the dude that we had just worked at one last year. He kinda stopped talking to us after that...
We got there pretty much right as the park opened, so we got done at around one in the afternoon. Jordan didn't particularly feel like going home just yet, so we stopped for some lunch, and then she asked if I wanted to go to Kentucky! Living just fifteen minutes or so from an entirely new state is definitely a weird concept to me, so we decided to go for it.
Proof! |
So we decided to go to Indiana instead.
How could I say no? |
On my last day in Ohio we went to see The Great Gatsby and eat some really good frozen yogurt.
Granted, there were about four girls celebrating together, but even still....the event was held on this farm/park thing (I would just call it a park, but there were like...two story barns you could rent out and there were gazebos and balloon arches....it was nuts), and it seemed like half the crowd was adults, and half the crowd teenagers. Weird stuff.
Anyway, the next day we had to get up super early again so Jordan could get me to the airport, and once again I got incredibly lucky and was able to get on both the flights I needed to get straight back to Arizona. I'm really glad I was able to visit Jordan before my job starts (starts today, actually!); not sure how much traveling I'll be doing now that I'm working/starting a class in July.
Sounds like a fun trip. Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteYou better come visit me! You've yeah is easy closer than Ohio!! Camden won't even know who you are!
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