Sandusky, OH

Monday, we reached Sandusky, Ohio, along Lake Erie, and got checked into our hotel.  I dropped Lee and the kids off at the Cedar Point amusement park, which boasts the most and largest roller coasters in the country.  It looked like a great place!  I tried heading back to the motel and only got lost once, which was pretty good for me!  We discovered after checking in that we had no wifi.  Not only that, but we also had no cell phone coverage.  Boy, we are spoiled!  Since Lee was going to call me when he was ready for me to head back and pick them up, and I had no phone coverage, I had to go down the street a ways to find a place where I had service, call him, and let him know to call the motel room phone instead.  What did we used to do before the internet and mobile phones?  Crazy.

I figured I had a few hours to kill, so I got my sewing machine and projects out of the van and began to set things up in our tiny motel room.  I managed got a small quilt basted, then got my sewing machine set up and got most of it quilted.  About that time, Lee called me and it was time to pick them up. I didn't get lost on the way there.  Yay!

That evening, we drove around a bit, along the historic water front.  Sandusky used to have a big paper mill and we saw several very old-looking factories that were shuttered there.  There were a lot of lovely, old homes near the water, and a very fancy-looking yacht club as well.  It reminded me a bit of driving along the coast where I grew up in California, sea gulls and all.  Can you call them sea gulls when they live along a fresh water great lake?