Wendi's Weekend Trips & Whatnot

Travel. Food. Fun.

Hard Hat Restaurant: A Great Place for Breakfast After a Hard Week

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I have had some hard weeks before, but this past week (April 9-14) was an especially difficult. It started with dog sitting for my sister, Randi, in Lodi. I had been there since Thursday, April 6, but on Sunday, April 9, her dog, Parker, became quite ill. This meant spending most of the day in the Metropolitan Emergency Hospital in Akron. Thankfully, Parker is doing much better now. Next came a week full of deadlines and pressures, which is mostly unusual for my job. I felt I had already … [Read more...]

Things to do When Traveling Across the Pond 

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One of the things that has become painfully obvious to me since beginning this blog is that I cannot go everywhere I want to go. I am limited by time and resources. Thankfully, though, I have friends who also have the travel bug. I figure the next best thing to being there is talking to someone who has been. If I get a chance to see their pictures, that is all the better. My friend, Lois Callahan, and I sat down a few days ago to see pictures of her trip to Ireland and England she took … [Read more...]

Fast Eddie’s in Bellville, Worth a Return Trip

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Here at Wendi's Weekend Trips & Whatnot, we (my husband, Bobby, and I) get the opportunity to visit many restaurants we have never tried. I am glad for the variety and really enjoy trying new places. However, there are some restaurants that we visit that we think we would like to try again. Maybe because they have so many options on their menus or maybe just because the atmosphere is fun, but it is mostly because the food was just that good. One place we had the chance to visit again was … [Read more...]

Malabar Farm: The Big House 

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The weekend my husband, Bobby, and I went away for our anniversary, we saw things that we hadn't seen before. However, we did go back and see The Big House at Malabar Farm. We had gone to visit Malabar Farm in February with our dog, Owney, but of course we couldn't tour the house. (You can read about Owney's impression of the property and his frustration about being unable to go inside building in his post about Malabar Farm here.) Bobby and I had actually seen the "Big House" back in … [Read more...]

In a Word, St. Paul Hotel in Wooster is ‘Beautiful’

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Have you ever wanted to see something but wasn't sure how you could make it happen? I have. Ever since St. Paul Hotel opened in Wooster, Ohio, I have been curious to see inside. Since we live here, there really is no reason to book a stay, so I figured the chances would be slim. However, in February, the Wooster Area Chamber of Commerce, held a Business After Hours event at the hotel. I knew I had finally gotten my chance to check it out! The hotel is beautiful. It is what is considered a … [Read more...]