Cincinnati

In between studying for my test on Thursday I'm going to update you on the eventful weekend I had...
My beau and I had been thinking about taking a trip to Cincinnati for a couple of months now and we finally were able to go! So..we made it a three day weekend, and stayed with my Aunt & Uncle who live in the country near Cincinnati.

Day 1: We visited the quaint and very hilly city of Mt. Adams on Friday afternoon. We'd already eaten lunch, so we just walked around the city and up the well-known stairs at Holy-Cross Immaculata Church. We walked down through the main part of this area where there was a strip of bars, restaurants and a coffee shop. We ended up in one of the them, playing a game of pool before we took off for dinner with my Aunt & Uncle.

Day 2: We made Saturday a big day..first stop was Belterra Casino. Neither one of us had ever been in a casino..we were amazed at the age group of basically all the gamblers. We were, by far, the youngest people in the place. It was sad to watch the gamblers at the machine..little old ladies, not even hesitating to press the button. We played at a couple of the machines just to see what it was like. Overall we lost (of course), but only a couple of dollars. We ate lunch in the casino at their buffet. It was amazing! It was a really nice restaurant, with a large variety of food: basic American fare, Asian, a special Oktoberfest (German) food area, salad bar and delicious fresh bakery dessert items! It was all a good meal but I was probably most excited about the dessert because they even had a case of about 10 flavors of gelato. Mmmmm....mmmm!!
After lunch, we went outside the casino to the horse racing. We enjoyed placing some small bets on a couple of the horse races and we won and lost some again. Now I want to go to Keenland sometime! We traveled downtown after this and checked out Oktoberfest. The crowds were so large, we couldn't enjoy it. People were really packed in like sardines. We did get a pretzel though and a drink, but then we got out of there. Lastly, since it was only about 6:30, and we didn't want to go back to the house yet, we drove to Kenwood Mall to walk around and shop. Overall, a fun and tiring day!

Day 3: On Sunday, after going to church with my aunt, we drove to Bass Pro Shops and Jungle Jim's and enjoyed some Mexican food for lunch. We had a fun afternoon, shopping and walking around and got some good deals.
We had a really great trip!

At Bass Pro Shops

On a separate note, I'd love to see my friends again soon!!
The Farmer's Daughter 

Everything is awesome!

So what have I been doing during this week of relaxation? Reading, watching Sherlock, going to funerals, blowing my nose, eating, and other unmentionable things. Nothing much to blog about.

Yesterday was exciting though. I went to Cincinnati to hang out with Brandon, which was exciting in itself considering we haven't seen each other since we left for the summer in May. He was a wee bit late, which I expected so I had some time to read a bit more. We started the day in a park, where we intended to hike, but ended up sitting quite a bit as well. I don't know what was going on with this park, but we kept finding all the dead ends to the trails.

After a picnic lunch and some more hiking, we gathered up our sense of adventure and went back into the city with plans to watch the Lego movie. We were a bit early so we decided to check out this really fun store called Jungle Jims, which turned out to be a really big international grocery store. I think Martha S. would really like this store. The Lego movie was surprisingly good. At first, I was like, "really? he likes this? oh my, well at least we're together" but then it started making some funny jokes. The story line redeemed itself towards the end when it pulled together in this really happy moral about letting your imagination be free and learning to play. I won't ruin the ending altogether in case you still want to see it. It's not a movie I would buy to watch over and again, but it was a cute movie, even with that song that gets stuck in my head. Everything is awesome....stop!

After the movie, Brandon was out of plans so I suggested Sonic for a drink since I was really thirsty. Neither of us wanted to leave so Brandon decided to drive around to try to find some Go-Kart place he had seen on Google Maps. By the way, he had thoroughly explored the area via Google maps before coming so that he knew where he was going. Turns out the maps haven't been updated because the road where he remembered the Go-Karts ended in yet another dead end. It was really all a trail though to get us back to the mall, where we stumbled across a really awesome blacklight mini-golf course. We didn't keep score, which was probably for the best since we weren't very good and sometimes we cheated. It was fun to just be silly.

After dinner in the food court it was time for the day to end. All in all, it was a very happy day.

Today, I'm going to have some adventures with my best friend and then (eek!) see all of my friends for a fourth of July cookout. Everything is awesome!

-Granny Eyre