Shanghai Mama’s has REOPENED after a fire gutted the joint back in October.

It’s so good to have them back in the neighborhood. I can’t wait to eat there again.
Oh, how I’ve missed you, Szechuan Chicken flatbread.

Tonight the streets of downtown Cincinnati were taken over by the World Choir Games
Parade of Nations. Here’s the blurb from the WCG blog about the festivities…
“A lively, colorful Parade of Nations through the streets of downtown Cincinnati USA
demonstrates national pride and culminates with a party and concert on Fountain Square.
One in Song will sing the Official Song of the 2012 World Choir Games, “I Can.”

Ye-ah. Well, we missed all that. But we were on hand for the post-parade celebration…















And then the evening returned to the regularly scheduled American Roots…




Click to see all the photos I took at the Parade of Nations celebration.

It looks like the preparation have begun along the riverfront for this weekend’s big fun
Bunbury Music Festival. They were working on one of the stages in Yeatman’s Cove…

And another stage is already standing in the amphitheater at Sawyer Point…

We’re still debating on whether or not we’re going to go check out the three-day music
festival. There are a lot of bands playing on Sunday that we’d like to hear play. But the
ticket price seems a tad bit steep. Decisions, decisions.