Kelly lives in St. Louis, Missouri and Allison lives in Port Clinton, Ohio. We are just two college roomates trying to stay connected even though we are 500 miles apart.
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Showing posts with label Travel. Show all posts
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Birthday Beer
Matt and I were in Chicago over the weekend celebrating the wedding of our good friends Britt and Ryan. My birthday fell on that Sunday. What better way to celebrate than a trip to Ikea and a birthday beer! We went to a bar called The Beer Market.. I highly recommend it! They had 50 beers on tap- so many to choose from! I ordered a beer called Not Your Father's Root Beer from a local micro brewery, Small Town Brewery. If you like root beer, you will love this beer!!
Who needs cake when you can have a birthday beer!
<3 Kelly
http://the-beer-market.com/
http://smalltownbrewery.com/
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Disney World for Adults
For spring break we decided to travel to Orlando, Florida and take on Disney World as adults. We stayed at the Port Orleans French Quarter for 2 nights. The resort was great and has a boat directly to Downtown Disney! Then we stayed at a Condo only about 10-15 minutes away from the park.
Using our fast pass helped a lot and being able to check wait times on the disney app was another big help.
Downtown Disney
*We ate at Portobello Italian: this was delicious
*Ghirardelli chocolate for dessert..looks like a long line but it wasn't
*Toy store I built my own Mr. Potato head for my classroom (there are only certain parts you can get in Disney World)
Epcot
We ended up going our first day there and our last.
Sunday (Day 1 of Epcot):
Fastpass uses for Soarin, Spaceship Earth, & Finding Nemo ...Soarin was a good ride and worth the fast pass all the other wait times didn't really need the fastpass. After the Nemo ride is a huge aquarium we saw manatees & dolphins put on a show. We ate at The Coral Reef restaurant we had reservations for it was alright food with a really cool atmosphere. We walked through all the worlds ate in Japan for dinner and stayed for the show Illuminations. Drinks we had bubble tea, german beer, and asian alcohol.
Friday (Day 2 of Epcot):
Fastpass for Fast Track & Mission Space. Fast track was a great ride and Mission space was a pretty cool simulator ride. We also did Ellen's energy adventure which was a good ride to relax since it's 40 minutes long but not very exciting. We looked at Flower & Garden show exhibits and went through the worlds for lunch/ snacks. Foods we tried pineapple soft serve with rum, candied strawberries, & rose blush lemonade.
Must dos Epcot: Soarin, Aquarium, Fast Track, Tour the Worlds , & Illuminations
Animal Kingdom
Wednesday (We did this 1/2 day and started in the morning)
We didn't use our fastpass for this park we used them for Hollywood Studios. We rode Mount Everest, Dinosaur, & went to It's a Bugs Life show. The wait for the Safari was too long so we missed out on that. We had some unique foods & beverages that were African & Asian.
Must dos Animal Kingdom: Mount Everest & It's a Bugs Life 3D Show
Hollywood Studios
Wednesday (1/2 day started in the afternoon)
Fastpass use: Rock and Roller Coast, Tower of Terror, & Star Tours
We also rode The Great Movie Ride and the best part of this day was doing the Backlot Tour and my husband Nick got to participate in the show. We stayed for the show Fantasmic which was fantastic.
Must dos Hollywood Studios: Tower of Terror & Fantasmic
Magic Kingdom
Thursday
Fastpass use: Big Thunder Mountain, The Jungle Cruise, & Space Mountain.
We also did the Monster's Inc. Laugh Floor, People Mover, & Pirates of the Caribbean.
We watched 3 parades morning, afternoon, & night. The afternoon parade called Fantasy parade had the most characters with the best music. The night entertainment was magical the parade, light show on the castle, and then fireworks. This park for me = Disney World.
Must dos: Parades, Night Show, Space Mountain, Pineapple Dole Whip & Monster's Inc. Laugh Floor
Make sure you have down time since there is a lot of walking, walk around with alcohol, enjoy the food & use the fastpass so you don't have to wait in line!
Monday, March 24, 2014
The Windy City: Chicago St. Patrick's Day

We traveled to Chicago for St. Patrick's Day weekend. It is half way from St. Louis to Toledo. We used hot wire to find the best hotel deal and ended up staying at the Knickerbacker hotel right by Water Tower. The hotel's location was an excellent walking distance to many things on Michigan Avenue.
Saturday
Allison, Nick, & Maryjo went to http://www.alliumchicago.com/ for lunch. This was a modern, nice, & relaxing restaurant. Farm fresh food in the heart of a city.
I (Allison) had a black bean burger:
Kelly & Matt arrived! We walked down to the Chicago River to see the dyed green river.
We then ventured to Wriggleyville land of the Cubs to meet up with another UD alumni (Ryan & his finance Brit). We went to Murphy's Bleachers Sports bar https://murphysbleachers.com which was a perfect place to celebrate St Patty's Day- bag pipers walked through, a nice selection of beer on tap, & of course green beer.
After Murphy's we ordered some Chicago deep dish pizza. http://www.loumalnatis.com
Once we got back near our hotel, Allison & Nick decided to venture to Ghiradeli chocolate for a late night dessert.
Sunday
The first brunch place we attempted to attend was Yolk but it had a 1 hour wait. We then went to was West Egg Cafe. Chicago likes to name brunch places after eggs. It was a tasty brunch!
Then we decided to check out the Shedd Aquarium...once we got there in the freezing weather about 20 degrees with high winds we would have had to wait outside for 1 1/2 hours. :( Hopefully, we go next time. After our failed attempt we went back to Michigan Avenue & shopped! We know why they call it the windy city!
Places we shopped: Crate & Barrel, Nordstrom, Garret's Popcorn, Nordstrom Rack, Lulu lemon, Victoria Secret, & some other in mall shops.
Half way through shopping we stopped at Eno Wine Bar to relax by a fire & sip on some wine. It was a great way to relax & warm up before heading out again. Enjoyed Allison and Kelly time!
Dinner at http://www.jakemelnicks.com/suggested by the hotel. It was a casual & feel good food place to eat.
Dessert: Sprinkle Cupcakes ..we did not use the vending machine since it was cold we headed inside. http://www.sprinkles.com/
Cupcakes tried; Dark Chocolate & Maple/ Bacon
Monday
Allison Tried Argo tea since she gave up coffee I had to dodge the Starbucks urge on every corner. This tea place was the perfect satisfaction without having my large latte. http://www.argotea.com/
Then we had to head home home..
Forever Roomies!
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