After wandering through Goettafest, we stopped by Smale Riverfront Park to listen to a
free concert by local country music legend, Bobby Mackey…


There was a wedding party taking photos…


Bobby Mackey…








He belted out a bunch of great country hits including a lot of Johnny Cash. 🙂

We ventured across the river to Riverboat Row at Newport on the Levee to check out the
other Goestta Fest, Glier’s Goettafest. And for the non-Cincinnatian’s out there, Goetta is
a breakfast sausage of German-American origin that is popular in the greater Cincinnati
area. It is primarily composed of ground meat, pork and beef, pin-head oats and spices.



We placed pins on the map of where we are both originally from…






That’s punny.










We got some Goetta Balls…

There were three but Genifer bit into one before I could snap a photo…


Goetta corn dog…




There was a poor girl trapped inside this wee little box…











Goetta is some really good stuff! 🙂

Not too long ago, the new Renaissance Hotel opened at the corner of Fourth and Walnut
Streets. Today, we stopped in to take a look around…









We decided to have a drink in their restaurant/bar, D.Burnham’s…

The lounge/bar area…




I wish I would have brought my checkers…




And the dining room…


And their special slightly more private dinning room…

And another little lounge area…


Now about that drink…

We had a couple of Cougars from Rhinegheist. While we were enjoying our beers, we got
a chance to look over their menu offering “contemporary Midwestern American fare.” And it
featured a bunch of really delicious sounding options that were surprisingly reasonable. We
can’t wait to head back to D. Burnham’s at the Renaissance for dinner sometime soon. 🙂