A Walk Around the Block

This summer, we have talked about going to downtown Cleveland and eating lunch outside...soak up some sun, sniff the unique smell of the city and enjoy some time together amid many people. Today was the day! It was not too hot, too rainy, too cloudy and I was not traveling.

We purchased our lunch at the Mideast Bakery -- a lamb/beef gyro and a chicken gyro without the pita bread. We then started our walk around the block. We began at the corner of Lakeside and Ontario.
We looked up and saw City Hall where our entire family gathered in March to see our son Nick graduate from EMS academy for the City of Cleveland. We then traveled along Lakeside to a mall where they were playing some reggae music (Meet me at the Mall free summer concerts). We looked out over Lake Erie and saw an Amtrak station, the Browns stadium, boats on the lake and the track where my dh and friend Jim used to jog.

Our next part of the walk around the block was heading south through another mall. It was here in the 60's that dh and I use to come with guitar, bible and our voices and witness to people passing by. As we neared St Clair, we looked across the street and saw another mall where many years ago we attended a peace rally (which ended up not being so peaceful). A right turn brought us to the Vulcan building where I worked for Ohio Bell. It was there in the lobby that we got engaged.

We then turned right once more and as we completed our walk around the block, we reminisced about places we used to go to on our lunch hour when we both worked downtown.

A perfect lunch on a perfect day with my perfectly wonderful husband.