Ohio - This Museum Really Was the Bomb

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Imagine yourself enjoying some nice chocolate ice cream when all of a sudden, it gets really spicy. If that happens, you must be at Jeni's. In Ohio we did many fun things. One of which was see the Columbus Blue Jackets play. We also went to the Columbus Zoo and Jeni's Ice Cream. Another great thing we did was go to the National Museum of the United States Air Force.

The Columbus Blue Jackets are Ohio's National Hockey League team. They play at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. We were able to go because of my uncle's job. After watching nonstop fun, I have to say that hockey is my favorite sport to watch. I'm a major baseball fan, and I like to watch a little football too, but hockey is non-stop action. What also made it fun was the executive seats we sat in.

The Columbus Zoo was started by the famous animal man, Jack Hanna. Sadly we arrived a little late in the year to see many animals, and the animals we did see were indoors (except for the penguins).  Luckily though they had Wildlights. Wildlights is millions of Christmas decorations in the zoo. Every half an hour they also had lights that were coordinated to music. I especially like the light show because they played Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Then we walked around the zoo looking at lights.

Jeni's Ice Cream is an ice cream shop with a twist. They change up the flavors. For example they have cayenne chocolate which is cayenne flakes in chocolate ice cream. Another wacky flavor they have is salty caramel. The ice cream wasn't bad, but when I think of ice cream, I think of rich, creamy vanilla or smooth chocolate not salty caramels. If you're in the mood for something different, though, Jeni's is the place to go.

The National Museum of the Air Force is one of the best museums I have ever been to. They had thousands of planes from the World War II Flying Fortress to the B2. Half the time you would look up and see the under side of a wing, instead of the ceiling. Another cool part was looking at all the planes my dad had built models of when he was a kid. I was able to sit in the cockpit of a Thunderbird and some other airplane I can't name. In the first plane's cockpit there were millions of switches and buttons. They even had an ejection lever which didn't work. The second plane was a two seater. It had fewer switches and buttons, but you also couldn't see out of the plane. You had to use radar to see. While I would have loved to stay the whole day and look at the planes, we had to leave.

Ohio had fun stuff from planes to lights. Another great activity was the hockey game. Most of all we had some spicy chocolate.

-The Son