Ohio State Fair

L and I went to Columbus to talk to the OPERS people about my retirement plan Wednesday and decided to get there the day before and go to the state fair.  The drive down was uneventful, for me, knitting the Rona Shawl make the time pass real quickly.  We parked at the back end near 11th street and started walking to the other end.  The crowad was not huge that day but there are plenty of things to look at.  L hasn’t been there for a few years, he was looking forward to look at the winning vegetables but was really disappointed to find out that half of the building was taken up by the corporate stuff and there was only one small table with winning vegetables on.

From Ohio State Fair

And it’s funny that the only things we got were cleaning stuff, a steam cleaning mop, some shame-wows.  Ha ha.  But in the international building, I saw the Taiwan flag and had to take a picture of it.

From Ohio State Fair

The walk tired us out so L took a nap and slept till 7pm when I woke him up to go to dinner.   I found this little italian restaurant near our hotel called Cafe Davinci that has good reviews on the iphone.  So we went there.  L thought we were going to have expensive Japanese food and was pleasantly surprised by it.  Their ordering system was quite different.  As soon as we walked in the door, the waitress knew it was our first time cause we were waiting to be seated.   You don’t get seated.  You just find the table you want to sit at and go to the counter to order your food.  The waitress will bring alcohol and the food to you when it’s ready.  And you help yourself to the bread and olive oil.   I was very hungry so I was pigging out on the bread which was very good focaccia.    I ordered Shrimp and clam in an alfredo sauce which was very good and L had veal parmasan.  The portion was not huge so I almost finished it even after I pigged out on the bread.  Then we had italian ice cream for dessert.  All in all it was a good dinner.  We stopped at the hotel bar for a drink when we got back.  And the lady was going to put L’s Margurita in a small wine glass which turned out to be too small and ended up in a tall glass as it is supposed to be.  I had a Dewarts with soda.  We sat outside in the patio and talked for a while.   That was a great ending of a good day.

We didn’t have an appointment but we almost walked right in the next morning at the OPERS.  Got answers to our questions and left for home.  No sweat no hassle.  A mini vacation out of some business trip.