We Went to the Warther Carving Museum on Wednesday, This place is located in Dover, Ohio, a little more than an hour away from Columbus. I had read about it on the internet and thought it sounded like a fun place to go to. (www.warthers.com)
It was a really fun place, the great grandpa was a carver and carved all these intricate trains - complete with every detal. It was pretty amazing to see them. Our guide thru the museum was a grand-son and it was fun to hear his first hand stories of the family. It's hard to explain all the details of this place, other than to say I would recommend this place as a stop for anyone who goes to Ohio.
Train made out of ebony wood & ivory.
The great grandmother collected buttons, and there was a little building that housed part of her button collection. They were all arranged & framed in beautiful geometric patterns.
When we got to our motel in Columbus tonite, I did a mapquest to see how far we were from Heidi's house. I was surprised to see that her house was about 1 mile away. While grandma & grandpa visited her, Kimball, Cheryl and I turned into pirates and went in search of a buiried treasure!
We have some friends (Jared & Jessica Anderson) who used to live in Columbus while he was attending Ohio State. They moved to Spokane a little over a year ago. Anyway, his old house is just a few miles from where Heidi lives. Before moving to Spokane, Jared and his little girl buiried a treasure in the back yard. When he found out I was making another trip back east, Jared said: "Wouldn't it be cool if you could go and dig up the treasure so that it could make it's way back to me in Spokane?" Well, you know I am always up for an adventure, so we went to do a little digging.
There are a lot more details than I am sharing here, but it is a story filled with adventure, sneakyness, and a lot of digging. In the end, we DID find the treasure! Jared would not tell me beforehand what the treasure was, and we had to call him while we were in the back yard digging, so he could coach us to the right place. How appropriate that the treasure was a little plastic Nemo fish. Now we can say we were in his back yard "Finding Nemo".
We ended up our night at this famous place:
Gary, you will be impressed. We even scored some of the hats that the cooks wear as a souvenir.
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7 comments:
AWESOME!!! WA-HO!
I'm looking forward to seeing the hats. I never scored one of those, just menus.
Next big questions:
Did you try the pee-can waffles?
Did you get your hash browns scattered, covered, smothered, chunked, peppered, diced, or topped?
Did your waitress have all her teeth?
Who would have thought you could find Nemo in Ohio?
Cool! I want a hat. MMM The Waffle House. Though Jason said he will never go back. He had a very bad experience with their waffles. Every time they brought one out, it was burnt. They would try again, same result. Poor kid never did get a good waffle there.
No wimpy Geocaching for you! I can't wait to hear the extended version of that story. Looks like it was apartments? "Yes, I'm the new property manager and the owner sent me to dig right here..."
It wouldn't be a trip without doing something that seemed a little bit illegal. I wonder what "buried treasure" we could find in Vegas!
I can't believe that train is hand carved, amazing!
I love reading about your adventures!
It looks like you dug up the entire backyard! hope the people who live there now didnt mind.
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