This past weekend I flew on over to Cincinnati (with a long layover in Detroit) to see the Red’s opening day with Cindy. Here’s the short version of the trip. (A few pictures are below, more are on flickr).
Friday: flight, crazy thunderstorm and delay, flight, picked up by Kelly and Paul, Skyline at 2:00am, dog #1 (Bailey).
Saturday: Dog #2 (Cody), met Heather, Keith, Jonathan and dog #3 (Lucy), pizza (9 pieces or so) and met lots more of Cindy’s family, hanging with Kevin, Melissa, and dog #4 (Emma), out to a bar for the final 4 games (boring games!), 2nd place in Texas hold’em, lost in foosball, lost in air hockey (just barely).
Sunday:over to Cindy’s Mom’s place, met more family and dogs #5 and #6 (no idea with spelling), guitar hero, avoiding getting in any of the Banzhaf photoshoot (successful), played my first game of Cornhole (think bean-bag horseshoes), food, making a good impression/fool of myself with DDR in front of Cindy’s family (I did beat her brother though), off to the city, picked up a Red’s hat (last pic below), picked up some Graeter’s ice cream (good stuff!), visited Cindy’s grandma, visited Devou park, errands in and around Cincinnati, leftover pizza.
Monday: preperation for the game, picked up Sammy at UC, touring the Cincinnati ghetto, Skyline and beer at 10:30 (yea, 10:30am), beer poured into to-go cups for the parade (modeled by Kevin with the green finger above), off to the ballpark, peanuts outside the park (a necessity), standing room only tickets (start to get cold), president throws out the first pitch, gave up 5 runs in the first, still cold, hotdog,standing tickets turn into real seats (a little less cold), tied it back up, give up 7 runs in the 6th (and most people start to leave), check out another view of the stadium (from standing room, to 10th row seats, to first row seats), Reds lose. Out to dinner, back to Cindy’s sister’s place, catch a bit of the NCAA final (still not exciting), early bed.
Tuesday: Up quite early and off to the airport.. and the rest is boring
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Did you seriously just spell Cincinnati incorrectly again?!?! It was only the first time you wrote it though, so I guess you are learning:)
I’d like to add that you failed to mention you actually liked Skyline!!! And I know this is true because you actually ate it twice! and that Graeters (not Graters) is the best Ice Cream EVER. So good.
And… You were NEVER going to win that air hockey game;)
Good weekend! It’s just a shame the game wasn’t better.
Hey, it was 1:00am… gimme a break :) (they should be fixed now).
Yes Skyline (http://www.skylinechili.com/) was great. A bit different but good (and cheap!). Anyone that goes to Cincinnati has to try it out. I wonder where else the chain goes.
And air hockey? I’m sure you planned to win 9-8 (and score on yourself 4 times!).
I was just giving you a chance at the air hockey, making it an exciting game.
and there are Skylines in Florida, not sure why, but it’s pretty much the Cincinnati area and Florida.