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Have baby: Will travel...pictures (finally)
No road trip is worth documenting without pictures. Pictures make anything more personal, and now I finally have mine to share with you so I can leave the good folks over at everystockphoto.com to their own devices.
The pictures so far are of the leg from Brooklyn to Cleveland and from Cleveland to Louisville. I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I do--for me it's like taking the trip all over again, only not as many stops for the bathroom.
First up is a picture of the traffic at the Battery Tunnel. As my husband pointed out, that was probably the hardest part of the trip. He said that not knowing the traffic that lay ahead due to contstruction all along the I-80. If getting through that nightmare didn't dissolve our marriage nothing will.
Next is a cool pic my husband took of me typing my heart out after we put the baby asleep in the hotel room. It isn't really very travel-worthy but it's sort of artistic so I thought you might like to check it out. Mercer got the sleep of his life that night, but we didn't.
Following that is a pic of Cleveland, a town that, according to Drew Carey, rocks. And it does, for many reasons--not just the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Although that helps.
Last but not least is a picture that you will find NO WHERE ELSE. So enjoy it. There is a little town in Kentucky just over the border from Ohio named Florence, where they have a giant water tower that used to advertize for the mall in town. After much weather damage, etc., the water tower ceased to say "Florence Mall" and instead said "Florence Yall."
Catching on to the humor involved in that, someone with authority in town fixed the sign so it actually said "Florence Yall." No come on, that's pretty funny. It gives me hope for the world given the humor that can be found in these small towns.
Later today we'll be visiting one set of grandparents, the Louisville Antique Mall (more on that later, but know that you should totally eat there if you're in town) and my best friend and her family in that place that strikes fear into the heart of every Louisvillian: Indiana. It's across the bridge with a civility toward Louisville not unlike the Hatfields and the McCoys.
Luckily we'll be hitting the unknown territory after dark so we'll be sure to get lost again.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
7-02-2007 @ 9:04AM
bsherm said...Actually, the reason the water tower was changed to Florence Y'All is because other businesses in the area were upset that the Florence Mall was getting free advertising, not because it weathered. So they got to paint the tower twice... good use of public funds... :-)
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7-02-2007 @ 9:06AM
Jota said...Aww--so it was just a rumor? That's too bad. It's a good story at least!!! :)
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7-02-2007 @ 9:24AM
Maranie said...I lived in Florence for about a year and heard that it had to do with a law there; the water tower was constructed and painted BEFORE the mall was completed. However, local laws said that a water tower couldn't have the name of someplace that didn't exist at that time. So "MALL" was changed to "Y'ALL" until the mall was completed. It turned out to be so popular that way, though, that once the mall opened, it was never changed back. Now they even hold a "Little Miss Florence Y'All" pageant during their yearly town festival. Yet another reason I no longer live there.
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