Have Passport, Will Travel

Watch out Peru, Ethan is ready to visit! Passport arrived today.

Moments to Remember

My favorite parts of Glen Laurel...the front door. Love the door.

The stained glass and Scottish plaids throughout.

Being early arrivals we waited for our room by this cozy fireplace while sipping hot chocolate and reading a book. Love the tea box below.

The view from my reading spot. The dining room sits in the room behind where we had many wonderful meals. Loved the scones in the morning that we had with our breakfast. Loved the six course dinners by candlelight. Many people we talked to were staying in the cottages and crofts. We had a room in the manor house where these pictures are from. It was so nice with the weather to be right in the house and just walk down the hall to dinner.

The township is dry so you need to bring your own wine which is fine with me, I get to have my favorite! We enjoyed wine and cheese before dinner. Celtic music plays throughout the inn ( you can even turn it on in your room!) and it changes to bagpipers to call you to dinner.

Even though only 35 minutes from home, I felt like I really got away for two days. We loved hiking the gorge and spending the rainy afternoon reading in our room. The huge jet tub was the perfect place for a glass of wine and my book, ahhh. We definitely have many wonderful memories and will be going back again!

Icy Beauty

Today was hiking day and it was so beautiful. The icicles are huge and amazing! The woods are so bright from the snow and all of the leaves being gone. We walked all along the gorge and explored every area we could get to. I have many more pictures but its movie time so I have to stop uploading so we can start our entertainment!

My favorite picture of Bill from today. 

This mossy area has tons of tiny little icicles that are curved on the ground. It looks like a place little winter forest fairies live.

Weekend Rest

I tried to surprise Bill with this get away in November. He decided that getting pneumonia and having it spread to his heart and give him a heart attack was a better way to spend a romantic getaway! We spent 4 days at Mt. Carmel East "Inn". Not fun or romantic, unless you count that really cute hospital gown he had to wear!

So here we are again, rescheduled in January and it is SO cozy at Glen Laurel in Hocking Hills. We have cranked on the fireplace after our hike in the woods and it is so nice! Our dinner was huge and so good but I literally could not eat one more bite! We have all day tomorrow, just us! We are going to hike tomorrow, hopefully a couple of different trails and wander around somewhere quaint.

Somewhere in there I need to fit in my nap and a hot bath ....

Signed, Sealed, Delivered!

Kyle is holding his application for US Passport. He is very excited because he will be joining Bill on a trip to Berlin, Germany this summer. They are both very excited to go and especially to be going together. I'm not quite ready to fly overseas and leave all the kids at home so Kyle will have his Dad and his Mimi for the week.
Starting next week for school we will be starting an indepth study of Germany. Besides WWII sites Kyle wants to see other historical and political sites. He also started the Rosetta Stone German language program. To say he is excited is an understatement!
We finished his passport application about 3 weeks ago and we took him to get it turned in. Now we wait for the mail to bring him his offical passport! Talk about growing up!