Cuyahoga Valley National Park
For Levent's birthday weekend, Levent and I went to Cuyahoga Valley National Park, which is a small park just south of Cleveland. In my mind, this was in honor of Levent's birthday, but honestly it was just what so happened to be available at the Airbnb we were looking at. After all, Levent hates his birthday. So we rarely do anything for it. But aha! This year we did. We drove up on Friday, checked into the Airbnb in the late afternoon and walked down to a local restaurant for burgers. Saturday was our main day in the park. In the morning, we walked down to the local coffee shop for breakfast before heading to our first trail head. In the end, we hiked almost 10 miles on Saturday, which was more than we were originally planning for. But it was worth it! We saw three different waterfalls: Brandywine, Blue Hen and Buttermilk. (Buttermilk was the best one because it wasn't a very popular trail and thus there weren't very many people around). The weather on Saturday wa...


