Our church has different auctioned events as fundraisers for the church, but since we're new members we've gotten special invites to parties that were planned before we moved to Cleveland. We went to a BBQ ribs tasting contest party where there were 5 different flavors we could all vote for. It was a great get together.
Later in the month we had friends over for a summer party at our place. We had good food and played some games. Why can't we get more people to come to our parties
though? :(Hollie got suite tickets for a Cleveland Indians versus San Francisco Giants game too. We enjoyed the catered food and comfy arrangements... even though they lost!
July
When the government stimulus check finally
arrived we were able to get a couple things
with part of the money. A Mac and...
I added the UA 90th Anniversary Prestige Collection to my collection of movies. Check out this video.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/mpd/permalink/m2M9FB76CF5G36
We took a ride on the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad with a Cleveland Freethinkers group and stopped in Akron to see the Akron Art Museum. It was the first time we had seen the art museum since it had been renovated. The train wasn't running on time, but we didn't have anywhere else to be that day, so we both just sat back and enjoyed the leisurely ride.
August
Toward the end of July, Byron auditioned for Arsenic and Old Lace at the Huntington Playhouse in Bay Village. He was cast as a police officer and is currently in rehearsals with performances from Sep. 18 to Oct. 5.
The fourth annual 24 Hour Theatre at TNT took place on the 1st and 2nd. We titled it Once Upon a... 24 Hour Theatre this year. We again had five teams with a few
less total actors than last year, but with more writers. This year Byron prepared Fairy Tales, Mother Goose Rhymes, and Aesop's Fables to be randomly drawn by the teams. We asked the writers to adapt the stories as closely or as loosely as they wished. We had quite a few returning facing but also a good number of new participants. The word is spreading! Ben still wrote on a team and helped organize things, but since he and Sonja now have a baby girl, Sonja couldn't devote as much time to the event. So Hollie and I decided not to be participants this year and tried to keep things on schedule while designing programs and making lots of copies.
On the 15th and 16th we spent time at the Mohican Adventures campgrounds and the Mohican State Forest Park. We went hiking and climbing in the forest, then set up our camp site. We got a camping package that included mini-golf, go-carts, and paddling 7 miles down the Mohican river by canoe, raft, kayak, or innertube. We chose a canoe. We enjoyed ourselves and managed not to tip our canoe over! In fact, we're planning to go canoeing again this Labor Day Weekend.
