July 2002
Jenny's birthday was on the first day of July. She turned 11 years old.
We celebrated her birthday at our house. Our grandparents and our aunt and uncle came. She
had a normal white cake with icing and ice cream. She got clothes, money, gardening tools,
bubble gun, music CD, hairbands, and gameboy games.
We finally went on vacation from the 7th to the 13th. On Monday we went
to Sauder Village. It is a replica of a town built in the same place in the early 1900's.
It was cool and we got to ride on a train. The next morning we drove up to Jackson Space
Center. They had huge rocket engines on display outside. There was a lot of cool stuff
inside. You could even drive a Mars Lander. Later that evening we went to Marblehead
Lighthouse at Whitefish Point. We took a tour of the lighthouse and climbed up fifty feet
of stairs. We could see Cedar Point in the background. We were very excited because we
were going there the next day.
The next morning we got to Cedar Point at 9:15 a.m. The park usually
opens at 10:00 but they let us in at 9:30. The first thing we did was head for Millennium
Force. It is a 312 foot high steel roller coaster that goes 92 miles per hour. The first
hill goes down at an eighty degree angle. We waited in line for about one hour. I had
never been on a roller coaster in my life and I was going to ride the biggest one in the
world. I had butterflies in my stomach the whole way up the lift hill. The seats only have
a thing to hold you in by your waist so when you go down the first hill you feel like you
are going to fly out of your seat. There was an on ride photo section on the ride so we
got to see pictures of ourselves when we got off of the ride. After that we rode the Power
Tower. It has four vertical towers that are connected on top. Two of the towers will shoot
you up and two will shoot you down the tower. We got shot up the tower around two hundred
feet high. We could see the whole park and Lake Erie. We also rode seven other roller
coasters. We had a picnic lunch but we got a pizza in the park for supper.
The next day we went to the birthplace of Thomas Alva Edison. We took a
tour through the house and learned some things. We also went to Lehman's and the cheese
house. You can sample every kind of cheese there.
After that we went to the Maritime Museum. We watched a video of
lighthouses along Lake Erie. There was a lot of model ships. There were lots of mysteries
of lost ships. Outside there was a replica of a lighthouse. We also had a picnic outside.
Next we went to Malabar Farm. It is a mansion farmhouse
that we took tours through. It had nine bedrooms and ten bathrooms. It was a huge house to
be built during the early 1940's. It took an hour to tour through. They also had a gift
shop that you could buy stuff at. There was a fake cow you could milk. There was some
animals you could pet in the barn. The house belonged to Louis Bromfield.
The Ohio River Museum was next. We walked through the museum and then
we went outside to the steamboat. We walked through the big steamboat and Jenny fed some
fish with a baby bottle. The fish would suck bread out of the baby bottle.
We took a boat out to Blannerhasset Island which was a House built on
an island in 1800. We took a tour through it and it was big. It had a library and a summer
kitchen, too.
One Saturday Jenny and I went with our aunt and uncle to the Columbus
Zoo. We enjoyed looking at all of the different animals. After the zoo we went to see
Natalie and Chris Patterson. We went to a Chinese Buffet for supper and it was good. We
went back home soon after supper. We had a good time.
Nick