Funk Babblings

This past Friday was our five-year wedding anniversary. So we splurged on a nice suite (with ugly curtains) at the Cuyahoga Falls Sheraton, only about half an hour from home, overlooking some falls on the Cuyahoga river (OK, and Route 8 and the Schebels factory on the other side). The room came complete with a nice-sized whirlpool tub and a very soft bed. We originally intended to stay only one night, but ended up extending it to two. The first night we had dinner at a friendly little Italian restaurant a few miles away since the closer Irish pub was packed with an indefinite wait for one of the ten tables (and five names already on the waiting list). Saturday we ran home to stock up, bringing back food so we could have dinner in the room.

On the way home Sunday we stopped at the river gorge that separates Cuyahoga Falls from Akron, and saw the big falls of the Cuyahoga there. It was beautiful. We decided we could imagine living there -- in that gorge between Akron and Cuyahoga Falls, that is. I/we miss living in a city with a river.

It was a bit chilly, and we weren't really dressed for hiking, so we continued home after walking a mile or so. We ended up heading over to the area around the University of Akron to grab a bite at the coffee shop there (Aroma, which felt comfortably campusish). I was then reminded of the most important fact I've learned about Akron: it's easy to get off the freeway in Akron, but it's hard to get onto the freeway in Akron, at least going the direction I want to go (which is usually south). But we did eventually find our way to the freeway and then home.

It was a wonderfully relaxing weekend.