I mentioned in my last post that after we left Niagara Falls, New York, we were heading to Ohio to finish out our vacation. As you can see from the title, the trip was practically made for me, with all of my interests (except maybe the Ninja Turtles) being explored. We went to Sea World and the National Museum of the USAF while we were there, but before I talk about those adventures, I have to talk about the hotel we stayed in.

We were staying in a Holiday Inn, but this wasn’t one of the typical-but-functional rooms you think of at chain hotels; we were staying at the Holidome. If you’ve never stayed in one, the rooms are built in a circular fashion and face an indoor pool/exercise area/arcade/picnic area.  Now, I’ve been around enough to know that many of these things are fairly common now, but to my young mind at the time this was the pinnacle of luxury (read: the coolest thing ever). We spent at least an hour of every day there at the heated pool, or in the very shallow kiddie pool. I remember I had lost a tooth at some point during the trip, and had a grand time pretending to be a whale, shooting water out of the gap in my front teeth.

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