Roadtrip Post #4: Cooperstown, NY

Cooperstown is ADORABLE.  It's such a cute little town!  Loved it. And the Baseball Hall of Fame was so well done!  It was in a beautiful building, and I really liked how it was organized. Here's a bunch of pictures from our time at the Baseball Hall of Fame:

My favorite team is the O's! 

I took this for my family, because they love the A's!

And Kevin loves the Phillies! 

They had an amazing section on Babe Ruth, and kinda took you through his life chronologically!  It was so great, and I learned a lot.

Jackie Robinson!  

Women's baseball! 

A League of Their Own! 

This was the uniform of a woman who played on mens teams, and she thought it was difficult to play in the skirt she was supposed to wear so she used bloomers for her uniform instead! 

Some cool vintage A's stuff! 

They had a little section on ALS in baseball

Kevin and his buddy the Phillies Phanatic! 

Hank Aaron!  They had a nice section on him too. 

They had a whole huge section on records within baseball.  This particular one was about Most Consecutive Games Played (formerly Lou Gehrig, and now Cal Ripken Jr!).

 The Hall of Fame was beautiful!  I took a picture of the "First Class" from 1936, and then we found a bunch of other players we liked from other years:

After we were done with the Baseball Hall of Fame, we were ready to head over to Ommegang Brewery for a tour!  If you've ever had any of the Game of Thrones beers, then you've had Ommegang!  They do a lot of other delicious beers too! 

 

 

 That was Cooperstown!!  We had an amazing time, and the next day we drove back home!!  Our trip flew by SO fast!! We're already feeling ready for another vacation, but our December CA trip will be here in no time!! 

Roadtrip Post #3: Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls was beautiful!!  It was very quiet there the day we were there, which was LOVELY.  The weather was also quite perfect!!  We had a really awesome time exploring the area! 

The first thing we did was the Maid of the Mist tour boat! It was awesome.  It's only about a 20 minute boat ride, and it takes you right up to the bottom of the falls! 

They loaned us some awesome pink ponchos so we didn't get soaked!

A rainbow! 

The falls on the US side!  The Canada side is definitely better. 

 Here we are pulling up to the falls on the Canada side:

And now here we are leaving the falls on the Canada side: 

When we were right in front of the falls there was too much water and mist to take any pictures, but it was SO cool!  Such an awesome experience, and I highly recommend doing this boat tour if you go to Niagara Falls! 

Here are some pictures from the US side after we were done with the boat tour: 

Here's Kevin standing on the US-Canada border on the Rainbow Bridge: 

And here are some pictures from our walk on the Canada side!  We walked to the end, and then went to a bar up on the 9th floor of the Embassy Suites to enjoy the view of the falls on the Canada side! 

 

Another rainbow! 

Here was the lovely view from our table at the bar! 

 After our drink there, we walked back to the US side, and then drove to our AirBnB for the night!  The next day we drove to Cooperstown, NY!

Roadtrip Post #2: Cuyahoga Valley National Park

The next day, we drove to Cuyahoga Valley National Park!  It's only about 45 minutes from Cleveland. We started out with a really nice hike around the park for a few hours, that included a stop by a very active bat cave!  They had the opening to the bat cave closed, because they were worried about the safety of the bats (because people suck). 

Speaking of people sucking, look at what they did to this tree! It's just shameful. So many people carved their initials and names into this poor tree. 

These trees were crazy!  They had crazy root systems that allowed them to grow basically out of the rocks! 

 

The bat cave!  They put some bars in front of it so people wouldn't try to go in, to protect the bats. 

A beautiful waterfall! 

After our awesome hike, we drove over to an area that was supposed to have lots of wildlife
(including beavers and otters). We, however, did not see any wildlife except for some ducks.  There were TONS of lily pads, so I was hoping to see some frogs since in cartoons frogs are always hanging out on lily pads, but there were zero frogs I'm sad to say.  Real question:  Has anyone ever seen frogs hanging out on lily pads?  Is this a real thing that happens?  I've seen it in a million cartoons, but maybe that's not a real thing.... haha :)

A million lily pads! 

After hanging out there for a bit, we drove over to an area with a cool covered bridge!  It was beautiful. 

 That was Cuyahoga Valley National Park!  It's a pretty small National Park, but we had a fun day there.  The next day, we drove to Niagara Falls, which will be the next post!