Thanks for all the suggestions on the trip. We ended up having a GREAT TIME! Among the Brewery (awesome) and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (which was actually pretty lame) we went to the Christmas Story House in the middle of a snowstorm - which seemed appropriately Christmas-y. The Westside Market, Little Italy, drove through where the flats used to be and various other smaller locales. The lake was frozen, which was weird looking. But Cleveland is a really neat city.
One night we DID order pizza at the hotel from a place called Rascal House Pizza, since they'd deliver to the Renaissance. It was really good!!
Here are a couple of pics of the car. The first one is in front of the church they used for the wedding scene in the movie "The Deer Hunter"
In order to get this shot like I have it, I'm more or less on the ground. It's on a small side street, and because of the snow there was no place to pull over off onto the sidewalk. I just put on the flashers and prayed that cars would notice and go around.
This shot is in front of a Wade Chapel, in Lakeview Cemetery (
www.lakeviewcemetery.com)
It was one of the places we went on our last day there. Still TONS of snow on the ground everywhere. The chapel was closed for the season, but we went to get more information at the information center, and they opened it up for us. Tiffany glass and mosaics inside. Really stunningly beautiful in there, as was the entire place. It's worth a look if you're ever in the area.
