Cleveland Rocks
So I guess at some point I will blog last year’s summer vacation. Trying to get that done before this summer. 😀
We started our trip traveling through Ohio. We made two stops in Ohio- Cleveland and Kirtland. Originally, we had planned to go to Cuyahoga National Park, but we ended up doing a swerve in our itinerary and spent the day in Cleveland instead. On the way, Kareem repeatedly played the song “Cleveland Rocks,” much to Jimmy’s delight and Lucy’s dismay.
We started our day by visiting the lakeshore. The kids were amazed. When we said “lake,” they were imagining something very different and much smaller. It’s like the ocean they said! We had a perfect day for it. We hung around the park, took pictures, and then headed down to the shore and they got to enjoy that a little bit.
After our lake time, we spent time at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This was something I have wanted to see for a long time, but I wasn’t sure it would be engaging for the kids, so we almost skipped it. I am glad we went. The kids enjoyed it much more than we thought they would- are you sensing a theme in my blog posts here? Maybe I should rename this blog to “the kids enjoyed it much more than we thought they would.”
Anyway. I was excited about it myself, so maybe some of my enthusiasm rubbed off! 😀
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame was not huge, but it was pretty extensive. I liked how it was set up chronologically. There was TONS of memorabilia. Apparently, they rotate what’s in the exhibition halls because they have such a large collection. It was very exciting and cool to see the things, and it was very fun to hear the kids get excited when they found someone they were a fan of. They had a lot of Elvis stuff, and we had visited Graceland in the past couple years, so they loved that.
Aside from the halls of memorabilia that thrilled and excited us, we also visited an exhibit where the kids got schooled in making their own rock music. This exhibit was for any age, and you could learn and play on real instruments. It was very cool! They also had an exhibit just about famous guitars and the evolution of guitar music.
We got to visit the actual Hall of Fame as well, which was thrilling. And it was visually stunning as well. We found all our faves including, of course, Paul Simon.
It was a gorgeous day outside too, and we enjoyed walking around. There was a surprising amount of things to see and do around the area as well.
In the end, we all agreed that despite our differences about the actual song, Cleveland rocks!
