On Thursday, we went out for breakfast at a place called Jack Flaps which was pretty good. Nolan took us on a tour of Cleveland where we looked at a lot of architecturally significant buildings and Nolan gave us a small lesson on Cleveland history. We walked around downtown for a while and saw some of the stuff up close. There is quite a bit of history here and some cool buildings.
We then went out to Chagrin Falls and walked around. Chagrin Falls is a neat town that has a river (Chagrin River) flowing right through the center and a pretty impressive waterfall. Nolan showed us where he participated in the planting of about 700 trees a few weeks ago along the river. We then went downriver and walked about a bit and enjoyed the outdoors. We found a bench that someone had assembled out of slate so we say there for a while and pondered life...
The weather was beautiful and we had a great day out.
Friday, we went to the Cleveland Museum of Art. This is a large and nice museum with a lot of nice works of art. A short visit to the Museum of Contemporary Art was followed by a trip to the Lake View Cemetery. Here we saw the tomb/monument to President James A. Garfield, and the gravesite of John D. Rockefeller. Both of them were from Cleveland. We also saw the grave of Eliot Ness, who lived in Cleveland.
When exiting the cemetery, we saw the Lake View Cemetery dam. This is an impressive dam that is part of Cleveland's stormwater drainage system. When built, it was the largest concrete poured dam east of the Mississippi.
Chagrin River where Nolancito helped plant 700 trees
Nolancito and Ileana on the Chagrin River
James A. Garfield tomb
John D. Rockefeller site
Eliot Ness site
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