The Columbus

Yesterday we arrived in Columbus to visit our friends Travis and Kate and their 2 kids Annika and Olivia. Travis teaches at The Ohio State University (apparently you are not supposed to just call it Ohio State, you have to say "The" Ohio State). Today we drove through campus to check it out. It was alright, not as good as the UofA campus of course. It was huge though. They have 60,000 students there compared to 17,000 at the UofA. We have eaten at some really good places while we have been here. Last night we went to the cool area of town that reminded me of Dickson Street and had a nice little park area by a creek with ducks, a farmers market, and fountains. There were lots of shops and restaurants and cool places there. We ate at a good place called Old Bag of Nails. After that we went to a ice cream place that we have heard multiple Ohians (is that what they are called?) rave about called Graeter's. It was really good ice cream. It is kind of crazy how they make it: only 2 gallons at a time and it has to be hand packed into the containers because it is so thick machines can't do it. It is rated by a lot of connoisseurs as the best ice cream in the world. If you buy a half gallon it is $15. Crazy but good. Yesterday afternoon after we arrived I helped Trav bottle some beer. He brews his own beer and had a batch ready to be bottled so I served as his lovely assistant. Here are some pics.

Here is us siphoning the beer out of the big brewing container into a big plastic bucket.


Here I am siphoning the beer into bottles


Here I am putting caps on the bottles


Tomorrow we are returning to the land of milk and honey (Fayetteville).