What could be better than a BFF telling you to plan a night out for her birthday? Not much if you're like me: into food in love with trying new places in dire need of an excuse to actually go out on a Saturday night (wedding planning has been great for my savings account, not …
Tag: Local Adventures
Belated Birthday
This year my birthday was weird. Not because of anyone else--totally because of me. Usually I insist on a week-long (at least) extravaganza involving travel and excess. In that respect, I suppose I was on track-- we really considered my tagging along for the fiance's work trip to be my big birthday affair. But here's the thing; …
Local Adventures: Cleveland’s West Side
You may recall I made a commitment to exploring my own backyard through a series of planned 'local adventures.' I would like to say I just had a great deal of initiative to learn more about Northeast Ohio (which has turned out to be much more interesting that you might think!), but in reality we've …
Artsy, Active Weekend of Photography and Local Adventures
This ended up being a really productive weekend. We crossed a bunch of travel and wedding planning items off the list Saturday, including the fiance taking a camera class for our brand new Canon EOS 60D, an early wedding present from my parents (AMAZING!) Between the class and the gobs of reading he's done online, …
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Motorcycle Diary: Local Trip to Millersburg, Ohio
Thanks to the headline of an article I caught in the Akron Beacon Journal about a brewery opening in the middle of Amish country, our first motorcycle trip of the season was born. An Amish brewery? We had to check it out. It was a beautiful weekend and the perfect time to get our motorcycles …
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Rocking the Resolutions
This past month I was able to complete a couple more ideas from my New Year's resolutions list and actually cross off one goal altogether! Mentioning it on the blog is more for my accountability than your interest, so apologies. The two items I recently tackled from my list are: Take part in at least …
My Last St. Patty’s as a Single Lady
The fiance and I have been hosting St. Patty's Day gatherings for several years. Unfortunately the year of the move in (and move again, and move again) was a break in the annual festivities, but we've gotten back on track. I mislabeled this year as our 'third' annual gathering but it was actually our fourth. …
Heather's Compass 