Sunday, September 6, 2009
Galleries, Cream Puffs Overpriced Knick Knacks & The 18th Floor.
Our friend Mary came to Columbus this weekend. We stayed at the Renaissance Hotel downtown and spent the weekend lounging, eating, exploring, drinking, and taking in the annual Short North Gallery Hop. The Short North is especially exciting during events like this... such a diverse and interesting crowd; so many unique shops, tons of galleries, lots of live music. We enjoyed some favorites (such as the Northstar Cafe and Barleys) and discovered some new fun places like Level, Union & Flower Child. The North Market is an excellent place for a variety of food and the decor at the bars we went to, especially Level, was frankly far above what Minneapolis for the places we like to go.
Saturday lounging at the hotel's rooftop pool was soooo relaxing; loved the whirlpool. And we ran into old friends too, me finally seeing Rae (who I hadn't seen in years) at the CD101 booth, where she was DJing and Jared caught up an old high school friend too at Union, who seemed really cool. It was nice to be able to stay downtown and get to soak up the atmosphere more completely. There really is so much charm to the Short North. Getting to explore it more thoroughly was good times.
Posted by soft rock star at 10:38 PM
Our friend Mary came to Columbus this weekend. We stayed at the Renaissance Hotel downtown and spent the weekend lounging, eating, exploring, drinking, and taking in the annual Short North Gallery Hop. The Short North is especially exciting during events like this... such a diverse and interesting crowd; so many unique shops, tons of galleries, lots of live music. We enjoyed some favorites (such as the Northstar Cafe and Barleys) and discovered some new fun places like Level, Union & Flower Child. The North Market is an excellent place for a variety of food and the decor at the bars we went to, especially Level, was frankly far above what Minneapolis for the places we like to go. 
Saturday lounging at the hotel's rooftop pool was soooo relaxing; loved the whirlpool. And we ran into old friends too, me finally seeing Rae (who I hadn't seen in years) at the CD101 booth, where she was DJing and Jared caught up an old high school friend too at Union, who seemed really cool. It was nice to be able to stay downtown and get to soak up the atmosphere more completely. There really is so much charm to the Short North. Getting to explore it more thoroughly was good times.
