In my attempt to live up to my super-mom status, I took the boys to downtown Louisville yesterday to tour the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory while Ryan went with his friend Jon to tour a distillery. Driving downtown wasn’t too difficult until I remembered that I had no cash with me and would have to find a parking garage that would allow me to pay on the way out (as opposed to the outdoor self-parking or metered spaces on the street.) I found a garage just one block from the museum that was only $3 for the day (I thought this was a bargain, since I was used to paying $7+ fees in Baltimore.) And, garage height has been an issue since we had a bike rack attached to the top of the Suburban. I noticed this garage had the perfect clearance of 6′8″. Did you notice I said ‘had’ a bike rack on the top of the Suburban? What I failed to remember as I confidently pulled into the garage that was such a bargain and the correct height was that Ryan had decided we weren’t in town long enough to need our bikes so he didn’t take them off the rack. CRASH! I successfully removed the rack from the Suburban. The bikes were still attached to the rack and some lovely ladies assisted me in moving the rack away from the entrance of the garage to the sidewalk where I spent the next 20 or so minutes removing the bikes from the rack and packing up all the parts & bikes into the Suburban – with only about a foot of rack hanging out the side window. Ugh! I guess the super-mom status that Ryan bestowed upon me was just too much to live up to.
Archive for July, 2008
Jen performed a feat of super-woman magnitude yesterday. i was really in need of some time (alone) to get ready for the JH camp that i am speaking at next week. since our 30′ trailer doesn’t afford much quiet space and also because to go any where means to leave the family trapped at the RV park, Jen took the boys on an outing. Every town worth it’s salt offers a children’s museum + a zoo or an aquarium. however, the Baltimore aquarium is supposed to be spectacular so that is where they headed. they left around 10:30am traveled 45 min. into town, found parking and did the water area ALL DAY! the aquarium was so crowded that they couldn’t get in until 3:15pm and then couldn’t get into the dolphin show until 6:30pm. until then they shopped at 3 malls, ate at 5guys, ate ice cream, did a fudge “show” (it resulted in some fudge purchases & samples), got tattoos and watched a crazy guy juggle stuff — they had to leave before the grand finale of fire & chainsaws.
Not only did I really miss out on the of the best adventures, i was again reminded what a great mom Jen is and how unafraid she is of exploring the big cities. I suppose that is what happens when you grow up in L.A.
If you know me at all, you know I LOVE pizza. It’s an obsession, really. And it’s not just any pizza that will do – it’s gotta be good pizza. And after traveling across the country we’ve discovered that good pizza is pretty hard to come by. Maybe we’re just not hitting the right places – maybe we should be traveling through Chicago or New York to find the good pizza in the U.S. Unfortunately our travels are not taking us that far north. Or maybe we just need to go home since we haven’t found any pizza we like better than Barro’s.
As much as I’ve made Ryan sick of Barro’s when we we’re in Mesa, even he will admit that after 8 weeks on the road we haven’t tasted anything close to the delicacy of a Barro’s Special Pizza (substitute black olives for onions, please.) We did have excellent wings at Bentz Sports Bar in downtown Frederick, but I’m much more into pizza for pizza’s sake and Ryan adds the wings because he can only take so much pizza. So, I’ve decided to rate the pizza we’ve discovered across the states (for reference Barro’s gets 5 stars):
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Simple Simons in Murfreesboro, Arkansas = 0
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Uno’s in Frederick, Maryland = 3.5
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Ledo’s in Frederick, Maryland = 2 (sorry Katie & CJ)
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cheese slices from the snack stand by the Washington Monument = -2
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rest stop pizza in Pennsylvania = 1
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The Dough Roller in Ocean City, MD = 2
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Papa John’s (no different from any other Papa John’s chain across the country, but we needed delivery for our babysitting, movie & pizza night in) = 3
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BJ’s (we haven’t actually been yet on our trip, but I have to get it in here for a rating) = 4
Now that I’ve rated our pizza experiences, you’ll likely see a post soon named something like ‘Ryan’s Rib Review.’ For some reason he’s has been obsessed with getting the ‘local flavor’ of ribs wherever we go. I guess we all have our obsessions.
~Jen