We made our traditional pilgrimage to It’s Just Crepes this morning for breakfast…

My parents split a Hawaiian crepe, and Genifer and I split a Mexican…

Delicious stuff! 🙂

My parents were visiting us for the weekend. And they brought some delicious Pizza King
pre-cook pizzas down with them that we cooked up in our oven. This is what’s left of the
two pizzas they brought with them. I combined them because I forgot to get a photo before
we all started digging in and devouring their pizza goodness…




YUM! The weekend is off to a great start! 🙂

At lunch time today was the 5th Annual Camp Washington Chili Coney Eating Contest
on Fountain Square. Genifer and I went to check it out and maybe have a Cheese Coney.


Last year’s winner was on-hand to try to retain his crown as Coney Eating Champion…






Also competing in this year’s contest was 2010 and 2011 winner, Joe LaRue…


Remember last year when Joe tried an attempt at the world record?





And they’re off!

Three minutes to see how many cheese coneys they can stuff in their faces…







AND TIME’S UP! And Joe LaRue is the new champion tying his Fountain Square coney
eating record by devouring 14 cheese coneys in 3 minutes! That’s a lot of dogs!






Congratulations, Joe! The Freaky Fridays on Fountain Square are always fun. 🙂

We’ve had a gift card to Morton’s Steakhouse for a bit now. We used part of it a while ago
but it still had a pretty decent chunk of change on it. This evening we decided take care
of that and finish it off. We headed to Morton’s and plopped down at their Bar 12:21 to take
advantage of their late night happy hour and stretch our gift card as far as possible.


Genifer got their incredible little Filet Mignon sammiches…

And I’ve wanted to try the Morton’s Prime Burger. And so I did…


It’s was so big and juicy and delicious. And the sauteed mushrooms were perfect. What a burger!

Now that was an amazing dinner! 🙂

Today at lunch time on Fountain Square was Food Truckin’ for Josh Cares. Eight food
trucks lined the Square to serve lunch and do some good. All proceeds went to support
Josh Cares, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing support, companionship and
comfort to critically or chronically ill children so they don’t suffer through lengthy hospital
stays feeling alone when their families aren’t able to stay with them.

And people turned out in droves pack to the Square. We went around 12:30, and I don’t
think there was a food truck that had a line with fewer than 20-25 people in it.



We made our way to New Orleans To Go on the far because they had no line. But that was
because they were already all sold out of all their food stuffs. We decided the frequency
that we get to see all these food trucks that it was kind of silly to wait in the huge lines.
After all, who are we to hog the food trucks all the time. Other people deserve to experience
the joy and deliciousness of the Cincinnati Food Trucks as well. So we made our small
donation, and moved on in hopes of finding a lunch spot that wasn’t wall-to-wall people…

Such a great cause. I hope they raised a ton of money for Josh Cares. 🙂

For more information, and to learn more about how you can help, visit joshcares.org.

There was a thunderstorm scheduled to role through downtown Cincinnati this morning.
It was another really pretty morning, maybe even a little bit on the humid side when we
were out walking the dogs. But then as soon as I got to work, it got really dark.

And then it started pouring so hard that I couldn’t even see the buildings across downtown.


There they are… Whew!

And then an hour later, it was sunny again.

Silly weather. 🙂

We went to another Party in the Park, or as we like to call it… Park in the Park tonight.


We talked to these guys for a bit…

TQL Urban Race. It’s a 5K urban obstacle run in downtown Cincinnati and OtR.





Park in the Park is always a fun way to spend a Wednesday evening. 🙂

We had another pizza party at work. This time it was for the people with May & June birthdays.

They pizza was from someplace in Newport, I think. It was just alright.

I wish the pizza would have been delicious Pizza Bomba pizza.

For lunch today, Genifer and I walked over to Fountain Square to find the Pizza Bomba truck.

Genifer had never tried Pizza Bomba‘s slices. She got a slice of Spinach Ricotta pizza.
It looked really good when she got it. And she said it was really delicious. I got a slice of
their Bacon pizza and a slice of their Real Italian Hero pizza…



Some pretty delicious and unique pies they have going on there! 🙂

Tonight was the Reds versus the Cardinals on ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball…













The game was tied 4-4 going into the top of the 10th inning and then the Reds bullpen
gave up seven runs. And that was pretty much that. Should have left in Chapman.