For Spring Break, we were invited by the Butler County Visitor's Bureau to explore the Butler County Donut Trail and other fun family locations. Our visit started with check-in at the Staybridge Suites hotel in West Chester, Ohio. Astronaut Harrison's favorite part of any trip is exploring the hotel. Out of all of our travels for the project, this was the first hotel suite that we stayed in and boy does it make a difference compared to your standard "double double". After checking out the hotel for a little while, we heading to Entertrainment Junction and A-Maze-N Fun House. Home to the world's largest indoor train display, an amazing indoor kids play area, and Harry's favorite part: the
A few weeks ago while planning what type of adventures Astronaut Harrison and I would go on during Spring Break, I got an e-mail from COTA asking if we would like to visit their bus garage. To say that Harrison was excited when I told him the plan would be a major understatement. First we checked out the bus stop outside for a few minutes, we made our way to the front offices to meet our tour guides. Harrison was promptly promoted from Astronaut Commander to Vice-President of the COTA Space Program by COTA staff (and he even got a COTA ID badge to make it official). The first stop on our tour was the garage floor which had buses of all sizes getting worked on, including a few that were on b
Since the day he was born, Astronaut Harrison has had some amazing women as role models in his life. His mom (and my incredible in every single way wife Jessica), a Licensed Social Worker and now Chief of Education at the VA here in Columbus. His "Nana" PJ who is a retired Methodist Minister and elementary school secretary. His other Grandma who is a nurse and runs a training business for home health aides. For his entire life, he has seen that women are as capable (or in the case of my wife and many other women I know) more capable than men and it is my goal in life to make sure that he knows that education, job/pay, talent, and skill have nothing to do with the chromosomes you are born w
