The boys had President's Day off school and I was going to start a new job a couple days later, so we took a short, impromptu trip to Columbus and Dayton Ohio over the holiday weekend.
We first stopped at COSI (Columbus' Center Of Science and Industry), an excellent museum that I went to when I was a kid. Best of all, it was free because we got reciprocal admission with our Indiana State Museuem membership!
Both boys loved that they could lift a car with fulcrums and levers.
Even though OSU is located in Columbus, it was a pretty cool city. It reminded me a lot of Indy, but it felt a little more like it was a city made up of a bunch of small towns rather than a planned city like Indy.
We stopped by Jeni's for ice cream twice because it was SO GOOD!
The Columbus Museum of Art was free on Sunday, so we dropped by to check it out. We were very impressed with a few of the exhibits.
Lindsay researched and discovered a realaly cool bookstore in German Village called The Book Loft. It was a windy old house that had 32 rooms full of books.
We explored Scioto park, right on the banks of the Scioto river, just a few miles from Dublin, where we spent the night.
On the way home, we dropped by Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to check out the amazingly impressive U. S. Air Force Museum.
There were 4 enmormous hangars full of planes from replicas of the earliest airplanes from the early 1900s, through World Wars I and II, Vietnam, Korea, modern Air Force jets, and space exploration.
It was a great mini-vacation and it was fun exploring a city we'd never been to as a family!
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