Ohio- Day 4: Fiesta, Falls, and Philharmonic

Karen's turn for the pillow contest

1st stop of the day was to a local farmers market

Then to institute to help prepare for "Siete de Julio" which isn't a real holiday for anyone, but Orlando (the guy in the picture) is from Mexico and wanted to show everyone a real Mexican Fiesta, so we just went with it.

I should have taken some pictures of the food as it was fabulous.  Everyone enjoyed the party.

Then out to break piñatas, which would have been much more fun had it not been 111 degrees outside (I'm not joking about that, it's what my phone registered the as the "feel").

Then we headed to what we heard was a really pretty waterfall at Chagrin Falls. We were a little nervous when we got there that this was it.

It looks a little better with the artistic flowers in the front shot.

At least the town was cute to walk though

We went exploring in search for the falls

Finally, we found it!

Although the falls were lovely, even Niagara Falls wouldn't have been worth it in this heat, so we really only had one choice.  Grab some ice cream on the way back to the car and...

... go home and crash!

I figured since we were going to be at home for a while, I minus well take some pictures of the apartment, since it's such a cool looking place.  Karen and Brian live on the 6th floor and looking out over the banister of their floor you can see all the floors below.

There is a pretty little atrium below.

How can I get one of these in my house?  My kitties would LOVE it!  All the fun of outside, no bugs.

Laying on the circular bench below looking up.  That is Kristin and Karen looking down at me :).

That evening,we drove down to the Blossom Music Festival to hear the Cleavland Orchestra in this awesome outdoor amphitheatre.

The orchestra was conducted by Jahja Ling who was AWESOME!

The orchestra played music from Mozart and Chopin and featured world renouned pianist Emanuel Ax.  Thanks Karen and Brian for treating us to this amazing night!