I got some new flip-flops today. My old ones were starting to hurt my feets.

This evening I got all of my photos uploaded and blog posts completed from the weekend.
You can check out all the stuff we did this weekend by clicking here to go to the big fun
weekend summary blog post. We did a lot of fun stuff. Be sure to check it out!

Hooray! 🙂

This was a pretty epic weekend as far as non-holiday weekends are concerned. We packed
a bunch of activities into just a couple of days.

Friday night, we went to the Reds-Tigers game and listened to a bit of the Midpoint Music
Indie Summer Series on Fountain Square.

Saturday, we wandered through The City Flea, and had a pretty spectacular chicken sammich
from Cafe de Wheels. From there, we spent the affternoon at the zoo. We love the zoo. Then,
we came home watched the end of the Reds game, and caught our breath for a minute. Finally,
we ventured across the river to Covington to hear one of my favorite bands, Pomegranates
play at Madison Theatre. And they released a new album called Heaven that I cannot wait to
listen to over and over again.

Sunday, we watched the Spain-Italy Euro 2012 match on TV at home. Then we walked across
the river to wander through Newport Italian Fest. From there, we watched Ireland and Croatia
square off in an Irish pub. We made our way back home to change into our Reds gear, and head
out to the final game of the Reds-Tigers series which was on ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball.

Mix in a bunch of dog walks, and that was pretty much our weekend. Keep an eye on this post.
I already have most of the photos uploaded to my Flickr. And I’ll be adding links to each
blog posts as I get them done. It’s rainy today so hopefully I’ll be able to get all the posts
up this evening.

Hope everyone else had a great weekend. I know we sure did! 🙂

UPDATE: All the photos I took this weekend are uploaded and the blog posts are live!
Click on the above links to see the fun stuff we did this weekend. We had a blast.
🙂

After wandering around the Italian Fest, we decided to relax and watch the Ireland-Croatia
match of Euro 2012. And what better place to watch a football match than an Irish pub?


Croatia was the better side on the night, and emerged with a 3-1 win.

Ater the Spain-Italy Euro 2012 match, we walked across the river to get some lunch at the
21st annual Newport Italian Fest which was taking place just below Newport on the Levee…



Delicious Luigi Snackers!












And just look at these amazing onion rings…




Despite the heat, Italian Fest was a lot of fun. 🙂

Pomegranates were having a release party at Madison Theatre for their new album, Heaven.






























They always put on such an incredible show. It was a terrifc end to a terrific day. 🙂
Click to see all the photos I took at the Pom show.

Today was my company’s summer picnic at the Cincinnati Zoo. We love going to the zoo.


The zoo’s new giant Galapagos tortoise exhibit!





We found another Art for All installation …











New baby zebra, Savannah!









It was too warm outside for the polar bears…

But we did see this little Puffin in their space…




















Wonderful afternoon at the Zoo. Click to see all the photos I took at the summer picnic.
And click to see all the photos I’ve taken at the Cincinnati Zoo.
🙂

It’s funny to me how last weekend there was nothing going on and we were struggling to
find stuff to do. And then there’s this weekend, where there simply aren’t enough hours in
the day to do all the fun stuff that is going on. Today is my company’s summer picnic and
it’s at the Cincinnati Zoo. We’d never turn down a chance to go to the zoo. Especially when
it’s on the super cheap. It’s just a shame we missed Zoo Babies. Still we love the zoo…

Saturday morning, we were also invited to attend a behind the scenes, invitation-only
photo walk of Union Terminal. It sounded like an awesome tour promising to show parts
of the building that the public normally doesn’t get to see. The idea was just to show people
both the beautiful parts of the building and the parts that are desperately in need of repair.
It sounded like a pretty amazing tour. And I certainly hope they do it again so we can check
it out. Incidentally, Cincinnati Museum Center needs to raise hundreds of millions of dollars
to repair and restore the Union Terminal, which is about as Iconic Cincinnati as you can get.
Here a photo I took a while back of Union Terminal…

Saturday is also The City Flea, a pretty awesome and eclectic flea market in OtR.
We’ve check out a couple of them in the past. Remember? And remember?

We were also offered to free tickets to watch the Cincinnati Rollergirls final home game
of the season in exchange for a copy of whatever photos I took at the match. The match is
at another historic local building, the Cincinnati Gardens, where I saw the Cincinnati Kings
play indoor soccer. It’s the last home game of the season for the Cincinnati Rollergirls and
the first-ever Crosstown Knockdown versus Black-n-Bluegrass Rollergirls. Remember back
a while ago when I took photos of the BnBG roller derby match? Well, I guess the CRGs
saw those photos and want to get me to a game to take some photos of them in action.
Historic Cincinnati Gardens…

But I dont think we’re going to be able to make it to the roller derby because one of my very
favorite bands, Pomegranates is having a release party for their new album. The show is at
Madison Theatre in Covington, who asked me if I wanted photo passes to the show so I could
take some photos. Absolutely! It’s been over a year since I’ve seen Pom play live. And that’s
waaay too long ago. The last time I saw them play was last year at Taste of Cincinnati when
they followed The Seedy Seeds. I tried to go to see them play one of the very final shows
at Southgate House. But it was completely sold out by the time I got there. 😦 But needless
to say, I’m very excited to see Pom tonight. And to hear their new album. Madison Theatre…

And so that’s our Saturday. Whew!

There’s also the Newport Italian Fest taking place all weekend long. We were thinking that
we would walk across the river to check it out on Sunday. We had fun at Italian Fest last year.
This weekend is also Second Sunday on Main Street, an eclectic neighborhood festival in OtR.
I’ve been up to check it out before, but Genifer never has so we might check that out too.

And the Reds continue their inter-league series against the Detroit Tigers on ESPN’s
Sunday Night Baseball. And we have our cheap seat tickets all set to go to that game as well.
Here’s what it looked like in front of GABP after the Reds win on Sunday Night Baseball last year…

So yeah, there’s all sorts of fun stuff going on this weekend. And we love it. 🙂

Remember when I said that it looked like Crave was getting ready to open soon?
Well, I guess they were really close because they were open tonight!


We’ll have to check out this new place very soon!

The opening match of the 2012 European championship kicks off in a little bit…

And thanks to the Watch ESPN app, I can stream the match live on my iPad while I work.
Hooray for technology! 🙂

UPDATE: The first two matches were pretty action packed. Seven goals today? Yep. That’s
pretty amazing. It’s gonna be a great month of soccer!