We took the Friday and Saturday of James's spring break to go on a mini-adventure to Cincinnati! As you read, please forgive the formatting with the text and pictures here. There was a fight between blogspot and me. I've given up. Blogspot has given up. It's as good as it's going to get.
Cincinnati is only about 3.5 hours away. We loved it. Our favorite thing was a park along the river - it wasn't very busy, it was remarkably clean and friendly, and it was full of fun stuff to do!
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| Look at that. It's beautiful! View from Ohio looking across at Kentucky. |
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| They also had enormous checkers you could play. |
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| Balance and spin ball |
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| Exercise equipment |
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Pigs fly in Cincinnati!
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We also went to a store called Jungle Jim's. It's a grocery store that's about the size of Costco, but it's an international store, too! There are entire aisles dedicated to each country, and the music even changes to match the aisle you're in! The "regular" grocery store out of the international part was the Casa Bonita of grocery stores (for all you Colorado folk to compare). It is highly decorated, lots of ambiance, etc. The fish section is decorated as a wharf with shops and fish decorations swimming along, and enormous tanks with many kinds of fish swimming around to choose from and then eat. They have an entire room just for cheese. They have little mini-shops set up throughout the store for you to buy things (like sushi, stir fry, a quick BBQ brisket sandwich, etc.). It was lots of fun.
We also went to a cemetery. On a list of top things to do in Cincinnati, it was #3, so...why not go? It's filled with very impressive graves, tombstones, mausoleums, you name it. The registrar said they had over 235,000...patrons? bodies? specimens? people? Whatever your preference, there are lots here, with the earliest death date at 1840.
The grounds are quite extensive and they are very well kept. Spring was arriving around the time we were, so we got to see the magnolia trees and tulips, which are my two favorite flowers. Because of Henry's nap time and temper, we only stayed about 30 minutes, but in that time we walked past probably two dozen individual mausoleums, well over two dozen ENORMOUS obelisks, a granite gazebo with benches as headstones, and many other ornate and beautiful tombstones - and that was just walking distance from our car. Pictures really can't do it justice, so I gave up on trying to capture it and just got my favorite mausoleum instead. The place was huge! There were ponds and bridges and statues and stained glass windows...I'd be okay to be buried here. I've decided I'd like to share a mausoleum with James. Just us two - sorry, everyone who wanted to join us there. You can build a neighboring one. Or maybe we'll put a picture if you up in ours. Or you can come visit us and put your hand prints on the wall or something.
As a happy end to our adventure, we were home in time for Henry's first Easter. As you can see, he greatly enjoyed the bunny ears. But not as much as James did!
We also went to a store called Jungle Jim's. It's a grocery store that's about the size of Costco, but it's an international store, too! There are entire aisles dedicated to each country, and the music even changes to match the aisle you're in! The "regular" grocery store out of the international part was the Casa Bonita of grocery stores (for all you Colorado folk to compare). It is highly decorated, lots of ambiance, etc. The fish section is decorated as a wharf with shops and fish decorations swimming along, and enormous tanks with many kinds of fish swimming around to choose from and then eat. They have an entire room just for cheese. They have little mini-shops set up throughout the store for you to buy things (like sushi, stir fry, a quick BBQ brisket sandwich, etc.). It was lots of fun.
