To Market, To Market

This morning we headed to Westside Market for some grocery shopping. I snacked on a mixed berry crepe while Chris bargained his way to some bacon, herbs, and veggies for the dinner he is planning. We couldn't help but enjoy the sunshine at Great Lakes Brewery after we were done. What do you mean it's only noon? Its 5 o'clock somewhere.

That's my crepe they're making!

Ohio City in full bloom. Beautiful!

Can you tell I am excited that winter is over?

North Chagrin Reservation

Chris and I went out to North Chagrin Reservation to go for a hike in the nice early spring weather. Some of the local wildlife were out to play even though the foliage wasn't back in bloom yet.

Trying to keep my balance and not fall in the chilly creek.

I'm hungry! Where did the trail go?

Spring, are you there? I know you're out there somewhere.

Mapping out our plan of attack

Buttermilk Falls on the Chagrin River

Chris at Buttermilk Falls

Cool transparent reflection

Trail marker

Officer Bad News

Beavers are huge! I've never seen one up close before.

Mother goose

Cleveland Royalty

Michael Symon is the Iron Chef of America and owns some of the best restaurants in Cleveland. The food on his menus are very simple yet so original and delicious. He is probably the second most famous person in Cleveland (aside from King James). Chris, knowing that I am the worst cook ever, got me Michael Symon's new cookbook for Valentine's Day. Michael was doing a book signing at the local bookstore, so we met him and got my book signed!

Artsy Toronto

We took a morning stroll around Toronto's version of Time Square named Dundas Square. It was only two blocks from our hotel. It was lined in sprawling fashion advertisements and crowded even in the early morning. We made our way to The Art Gallery of Ontario, which is one of the largest art museums in North America. It had many types of art styles, with a seemingly large dose of modern exhibits. In fact, I felt Toronto itself embodied a heavy modernist influence. With that we decided to play with our camera to take a couple modern artsy photos as well. :)

CN Tower

Katie and I got all dressed up for a night out on the town in downtown Toronto. First stop was CN Tower, then on to dinner and drinks in the distillery district. We took tons of pictures at CN Tower, but we totally forgot to take pictures at dinner and the distillery district. We had a great meal at Mill St. Brewery and, of course, had to try a sampler of their microbrews. The CN Tower was crazy tall (previously the tallest in the world until this year when they opened the Burj Khalifa in Dubai). It had lots of cool little nooks to get your heart pounding. Katie was perfectly comfortable hanging out inside, but I explored the outside deck where the wind was blowing really hard 1,152 ft up in the air! They also had a glass floor where you could look straight down 114 floors! The elevator ride up also had glass walls and a glass ceiling. Katie couldn't bear to look, not being the biggest fan of heights, but she was still glad to survive such heights.

Canada Eh!

We ventured across the border into Ontario. The road to Toronto was surrounded by vineyards off the shore of lake Ontario. Our first stop was St. Lawrence Market, a farmer's market in historic Old Town Toronto. We had so much fun walking around the market and tasting the delicious foods.