Finally! After what has seemed like the longest winter in recorded history, baseball is back!
And Deskey threw a big Opening Day Celebration…



The was ballpark food. And games. And gorgeous weather. And beer. Lotsa beer…


Great Day. Great Company. And here’s to another great Reds season!
Click to see all the photos I took at the Opening Day Celebration.

Before the basketball games started, we stopped in to Rusty Bucket in Hyde Park at
Rookwood Commons for lunch. Genifer ordered their double decker quesadilla…

And tomato and cucumber salad…

And I went after their full slab of ribs…



Delicious stuff! 🙂

It rained all day today. We tried to wait it out for a while. But it wouldn’t stop raining. So
we had little choice but to grab our rain coats and umbrellas and walk the dogs. We did
alright until the final block of our walk when our cheapy yellow umbrella caught a gust of
wind and got all turned around inside-outside, you know basically it got wrecked…


I guess that’s going to happen from time to time. 🙂

On our dog walk this evening, we wandered by the prepping of another set for the film
“Carol,” the new Cate Blanchett movie being filmed in part in downtown Cincinnati…

This set was in front of the Cincinnati Club at the corner of Fourth and Broadway Streets…




And once again, there were a bunch of 50’s era cars lining the streets…




Pretty cool stuff. You never know what you’ll stumble across in downtown Cincinnati. 🙂

Check out this basket of shrimps I got for lunch today from Sport Page on Main…

A bunch of shrimps! And they were very YUM! Great stuff as always from Sports Page! 🙂

This evening we were invited to a celebration of family and friends at Bella Luna as they
toast their 13th anniversary. Eat well, love deeply and live long!










“La Bettola will be home to weekly entertainment and hand crafted, private label beers
created just for Bella Luna. Specialty beers include: Papa’s Secret Batch, a pre-prohibition
style lager and Gigi’s Redhead Ale, a red ale. Both are craft beers created by Cincinnati’s
Listermann Brewing Company. Each of these beers, like the Welcome Home campaign,
reflects family and friends. Papa’s was named after owner Harry Stephens’ grandfather,
Angelo Scozzafava, whom Harry called respectfully called “Papa”. Gigi’s Redhead Ale is
affectionately named for his own favorite ‘redhead’, wife and co-proprietor Gay Stephens.“
The two Listermann Brewing Company Bella Luna beer offerings on tap…


“Harry, Gay and family are excited to launch the Welcome Home campaign. “It’s a true
reflection of Bella Luna’s foundation of friends and family. People venture out to try new
things, have experiences but it is always nice to be home with the people that you care
about,” comments Harry Stephens. Stephens goes on to say, “After thirteen years of
operation I still love to surprise my customers with exciting new dishes. We have become
a place where people celebrate life! Bella Luna is a place for fun, friends and family.“
































“Bella Luna is also excited to launch a brand new website with easy navigation for events,
menus and reservations. bellalunacincy.com launched on March 24th and will be updated
with live entertainment and changing menu features.“

It was a great night and a really fun event. I love getting to go to things like this. It’s
really something special to be invited to share Bella Luna’s special night with them. 🙂
Click to see all the photos I took Bella Luna’s Welcome Home celebration.

Actress Cate Blanchett is in town filming a movie called “Carol.” Set in 1950s New York,
a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman. Yep.
For some strange reason, they’re shooting part of it in downtown Cincinnati. This evening
Eighth Street was turned into a parking lot of classic cars from the 50s…













You never know what you’ll stumble across in downtown Cincinnati. 🙂

We watched a bunch of basketball today. After Wichita State’s loss to Kentucky, we went
up to the casino to have a delicious dinner at Margaritaville…

And then we gambled on the slots for a bit. We lost a whopping two dollars on five pulls
of the slots. My mom had a voucher for ten dollars in free slot play and turned that into
a combined total of over $30. And then she ended walking with a cool ten bucks. It was
a very fun, low-key Sunday chuck full of basketball and great company. 🙂

A lazy Saturday morning saving our energy for this evening’s Michigan-Texas game…


🙂

My parents came down from Michigan to visit for the weekend to watch some basketball
with us. With them, they brought a couple of Pizza King pizzas and a a Boonzaaijer cake.


Family, the opening weekend of March Madness and delicious stuff imported form Michigan…
What more do you need? 🙂