Save a quick trip to New Jersey or Delaware or something, I haven’t left Pennsylvania in over 2 years. So, it was only fair that since Jen comes to visit me so much, I return the favor. Able to call in a birthday guilt favor to my parents for some dog sitting, I left for the airport.
Almost immediately upon landing, the festivities started. We checked into the hotel quickly and went straight to get some drinks. What followed were 3 entire whirlwind days of eating, drinking, eating and eating, with a little sightseeing mixed in. It was nice to be able to put a picture in my head with the names of places I’ve heard discussed so many times, and also to meet so many of Jen’s friends that I’ve only spoken to online. I also bought a ton of books from the wide array of bookstores we went to - the most impressive of which was the Book Loft (above). So many books in fact, that the TSA agent that was searching me on the way home after a scented candle that I purchased for my mother tested positive for explosives made no less than three comments about carrying a library.
All-in-all, it was a great trip, and quite handily the best birthday I’ve had in recent memory. A complete list of the places we visited, ate and drank after the jump.
95/101 to go
- Ravari Room
- Hounddog’s Pizza
- Hyatt Regency
- Tip Top
- Wexner Gallery
- OSU’s campus
- German Village
- The Book Loft
- Dirty Frank’s
- Jem’s house
- North Market
- Jeni’s
- Surly Girl
- the Conservatory
- Kickstart
- Harrison House
- Due Amici (birthday steak dinner!)
- North Star
- Half Price Books
- Up In The Air @ the AMC
- the Short North
- Impero Coffee
- Haiku
- some tea place I forget the name of
Thanks to everyone that hung out and showed me a good time, and especially to Jen for being the best tour guide ever.
