11-25-08

Oglebay Park Christmas Lights

Oglebay Park Christmas Lights, originally uploaded by marada.

I was feeling very sad and heartachy, as I am apt to do this time of year, feeling homesick (in addition to regular sick…my voice is now gone gone gone. The minions will smell weakness and turn to attack.) So what’s a girl to do? Oh, I don’t know, how about go a googgling some of her favorite childhood memories to REALLY make things bad.

First stop, Oglebay’s festival of lights. I use to love going here and I am pretty sure we went every year within a year or two of it beginning in 1985. I remember being bundled up in the car, eating at Big Boys (RIP) and stopping by the glass factory, the mansion and the zoo. When we got older we use to stay at the lodge. There is a corridor that reminded me of the scene from the Shining.

We were there for New Years once, I remember sneaking into the ballroom and seeing it all decked out. We met a kid who taught my brother to play Magic the Gathering in the lobby and the piano in the gathering room always made me want to learn how to play.

I hope to take the girls there one day…when they are a bit older and will remember.