Yet another discarded Christmas tree in downtown Cincinnati…

😦

This afternoon, we went to check out the brand new pizza joint up on Main Street in OtR called Goodfella’s Pizzeria…




We got the lunch special…

We were kinda shocked they had a Saturday lunch special. Duly noted.

Two slices, two sides and two beers for just over $17…


And the pasta salad was absolutely delicious…


After we were done done feating, we went to check out out the upstairs of Goodfella’s…











Great atmosphere, great space, great slices and great beers. We can’t wait to come back to Goodfella’s Pizzeria on Main Street in OtR! 🙂

This morning was the annual all-mascot broomball match at US Bank Ice Rink over on Fountain Square. We remembered it when we were walking the dogs this morning. And then time just got away from us. It’s kind of a bummer, I guess. But I’m pretty sure this year’s match was just previous Mascot Broomball games. Like 2010 or 2011 when I shot literally thousands of photos of the matches…

One of my favorite Cincinnati mascots of all-time has to be Rufus, the Cincinnati Public Library’s Reading Dog…

We’ll have to do a better job next year of making it to the match. I guess it’s better to miss it entirely than to hustle over to the Square just to arrive as the match was winding down. I’m looking at you last year.

I got a new Mac desktop computer at work today…

It’s a Mac 3.7 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5 running OSX Yosemite (10.10). Pretty fancy stuff. And it’s wicked fast! 🙂

It was our tenth Cyclones hockey game of the season at US Bank Arena! Let’s go…










At the end of the first, it was still knotted at zero…



As always, there were some beer pyramids…






The ‘Clones netted two quick goals in the second…





3-0!








4-0!




WALKING DEAD NIGHT is coming! We gotta dress up for that!










The Cyclones have rattled off three wins in the last three games we’ve been to! We love really our Cyclones hockey! 🙂

After wandering around the Cavalcade of Customs, we stopped back into Red Roost Tavern in the downtown Hyatt Regency for a bite to eat…

They had a new winter menu. We started with some amazing wings…

And a delicious kale and carrot salad…

Then we shared this incredible chicken club sammich…

We topped it all off with this delightful apple crumb cheesecake…

Delicious stuff! 🙂

This afternoon we walked over to check out the KOI Cavalcade of Customs at Duke Energy Center. We’re not gearheads by any stretch of the imagination. At all. But I’ve never been to a Cavalcade before. And there’s no better time than the present to remedy that. And there are probably going to be a bunch of cool cars…

Whoa. Yeah. That’s a lot of cars…






I love these old skool rat rods…













Genifer loved the powder blue…




I don’t know how you would see around this cars engine…









And the cars continued upstairs…














My favorite car was this pimped out 2004 VW Jetta…















Genifer liked this powder blue car too…


The cars of Fast & Furious…











There were a bunch of really amazing cars at the Cavalcade, and it was a lot of fun to wander all over the Duke Energy Center and check them all out! The customs just kept going and going and going.

Click to see all the photos I took at the Cavalcade of Customs.

After work, we stopped in to check out the new Kentucky-style bourbon bar right next to Nicholson’s on Walnut Street called Horse & Barrel Bourbon House. In fact, It’s owned by the same group that owns Nicholson’s. Horse & Barrel offers around 80 varieties of bourbon whiskey. We don’t really know much at all about bourbon. Maybe it’s about time to learn something new…

The space is pretty teeny tiny but very cozy…



But we found a table pretty quickly…



Great drinks!





Looks kinda like Milan in that painting. We ordered the Smoke & Spice for a little snack…

Genifer really enjoyed the corn guacamole. But to me, that spicy cheese spread was definitely where it was at! I looove my cheese spreads.

Bourbon not your thing? Horse & Barrel also has a pretty nice beer selection…






Pretty neat little place. I see us learning more about bourbon in the near future. 🙂

There’s bowling in downtown Cincinnati, what?! Yep. You heard right. There’s four lanes of bowling now in downtown Cincinnati! And tonight, we braved the bitter cold, walked a couple blocks down Seventh Street to check out the brand new Spare Lounge…



We had a best of seven game series that was tied at two all dating back to when we were in Boston at the end of October for Cleve and Alyssa’s wedding. Now it was finally time to settle the score. LET’S DO THIS!!!!

Genifer took the first game, and led the whole way after opening up with a big strike…

Then something happened to our lane. And we had to move over one lane…

And then it was on…


I took game six…

It came down to the all important third (seventh) game for all marbles…



Yep. It’s now a best out for eleven. 🙂

One cool feature on Spare Lounge is up on the balcony overlooking the lanes…
The floor is plexiglass which allows you to see down onto the lanes from above…



Another cool feature is back by the bathrooms. And it’s a window that allows you to see into the inner workings of the pinsetter…







It’s pretty cool to watch how all that machinery works. But please leave your shoes…

It’s pretty awesome to have a bowling alley just down the street from us. I know we’ll be back very soon to try to wrap up our best of eleven game series. 🙂

Today is my little nephew Edgerton’s birthday! He’s one year old today!

Happy birthday, old man! I hope it’s a good one for for you! 🙂