Sunday, August 24, 2008

The Great Lakes Tour



For Memorial Day, we took a trip we refer to as The Great Lakes Tour. We saw three of the great lakes - Lake Michigan (from the airplane), Lake Ontario, and Lake Erie. We visited Detroit, Toronto, Niagara Falls, and Cleveland. We also made some good progress on Scott's goal of visiting all the Major League Baseball stadiums by going to see the Detroit Tigers, Toronto Blue Jays, and Cleveland Indians play. They were fun games to watch with mostly good weather (Cleveland was freezing!). Niagara Falls was a lot of fun too. We checked out the falls and wasted some money in an arcade. When in Cleveland, we stayed in a bed & breakfast near Kirtland, Ohio and saw a lot of great Church history sites. The above picture is in front of the Newel K. Whitney store. If I remember right, my great great great grandfather, Edward Partridge, joined the church after meeting the Prophet Joseph Smith in Kirtland. It was fun to get to see so many interesting places!