Goodbye Cedar Point

With our season tickets itching to be used again,  and Stephen desperate to get every possible moment of ride time available, we had breakfast (muffins from Perkins again), packed the cases, loaded the car and we're back at park entrance for 9am.  With the plan to be out of the park before 11 we started at the front of the park with a final ride on Gatekeeper, we missed Valravn because of the queue, did Millennium Force, then off to the back of the park for Stephen's favourite, Maverick, before one final ride on Top Thrill Dragster.

Although it was tempting to keep riding, we sadly said goodbye to Cedar Point and headed east to Cleveland, about an hour away.

The Rock n Roll Hall of Fame stands right beside lake Erie,  between the Chicago Bears NFL stadium and Burke Lakefront Airport, which today had an airshow so lots of military aircraft flying very low across the city.

Keith, Sarah and I could have spent quite a while visiting get the exhibits and watching the documentaries and videos in the hall of fame.  An eclectic mix of memorabilia from a whole range of musical eras, including The Hollies, Elvis, Otis Redding, The Supreme,  Madonna, Deep Purple, lady gaga and Taylor Swift.

Leaving the city of Cleveland we headed on eastwards.  Our initial plan had been to stop for a late lunch check picnic at a park called Waldameer to ride their wooden coaster, but with our early ride session at cedar point making us later than intended we gave it a miss, grabbed some sandwiches at a gas station and arrived at the border crossing of Rainbow Bridge at about 7pm.  The crossing back into Canada was less stressful than our American entry and we were on our way within a few minutes. 

We had booked a guesthouse for our Niagara Stay.  Grandview Manor overlooks the Niagara Gorge.  As well as onsite rooms it also has a 4bed house just behind the main guesthouse which is where we had booked.  It was lovely and clean and peaceful away from the main Niagara tourist hub.  Sarah and Stephen had initial reservations as it was quite old and in their words "like something out of scooby doo".

We drove into the tourist area to find Outback Steakhouse for dinner.  Keith wanted a bloomin onion!

Keith and Stephen then had a chicken main course while Sarah and I had steak and ribs.