Our hotel room key says "Welcome to Ohio". I thought it kind of funny, as I did not feel a very warm welcome when we first arrived in 2005. A wicked blizzard at the end of April, living in an apartment, not knowing a single soul and new surroundings did NOT add up to anything I would call a welcome.
Fast forward however to 2009, as we get ready to depart Ohio, and the welcome we have felt through the last four years has been amazing.
We are spending our last week here in a local hotel and we are spoiled with daily (sometimes multiple) trips to the pool, hot breakfast cooked for us every morning and really great black-out curtains.
We are spending our last week here with one of my best friends from Nebraska, and with all of my great friends from the snow globe. What a way to spend four years. Warm, welcoming and wonderful.
When you open up your mind to new relationships and expand your horizons to allow friendships and relationships to grow, you end up positively overwhelmed and overflowing.
It's how we're leaving Ohio.
