After the Reds final night game of the regular season, we stopped at Crave for a drink.
And as we were getting ready to leave, Genifer said, “Babe, is that Bronson Arroyo over
there on the other side of the bar?” And sure enough, it was!

He was super cool and chatted with us for a couple minutes. Bronson is the first Reds
player we’ve run into out and about downtown. To me, this photo ranks right up there
at the top with the photo I got of Brent Musberger, Steve Lavin and Erin Andrews at
the NCAA basketball play-in game in Dayton. It was an awesome end to an amazing
season of Reds baseball at Great American Ball Park! 🙂

At MiCA in the Gateway Quarter of OtR. They always have such neat, fun stuff. 🙂

The new seafood restaurant and oyster bar, The Anchor has opened on Race Street in OtR.


We’ll have to check it out sometime soon. 🙂

Bleh.

It’s what we made for dinner.

We headed back to OktoberFest this afternoon…



And I got this awesome OktoberFest Hat…

Genifer wore her the hat she got last year…


















Another day full of OktoberFest goodness. So good. 🙂

We grabbed a some of brats and beers…



A new feature this year was the Glockenspiel Tower where every hour of OktoberFest
was welcomed with dancing girls, a toast and a ringing of the Glockenspiel Tower Bell…




Then we watched the Brat-Eating Contest…

Featuring World Eating Champion, Joey Chestnut…








Joey Chestnut eneded up winning the Brat-Eating Contest after a one minute eat-off!
He ate 32 brats in 10 minutes and then 5 more in the eat-off. 37 brats in 11 minutes!


And then Joey Chestnut rang in the new hour of OktoberFest on the Glockenspiel Tower.


Now, on with the OktoberFesting…





We stopped to listen to The Bierband.


And then this happened…

So good, so good, so good! 🙂

We hung out at OktoberFest until it started to get dark. And with the darkness came
a wicked fierce wind that would chill us to the bone. We decided to call it a night and
go home to watch the Michigan-Notre Dame game. What we should have done was
put on some long pants and a sweatshirt and head back down to OktoberFest. Ye-ah.
Go BLUE.

Southern Tier Pumking. The good stuff!

At noon, we went to watch the Running of the Wieners on Fountain Square. It’s been the
kickoff event to Oktoberfest-Zinzinnati for the last six years. And it’s one of my faves.









This year there we 10 heats with 10 per heat. 100 wiener dogs! And here we go…








The finals…



And the 2012 Running of the Wieners champion is Sammy!



We hung around for the Beer Stein Races…




And the same girl as last year retained her crown as Beer Stein Race Champion!

And we hung around to watch the Beer Barrel Races as well…


It’s such a fun afternoon. Great way to kickoff one of the most fun weekends of year
in downtown Cincinnati, Oktoberfest Zinzinnati!

Click to see the photos I took at last year’s Fifth Annual Running of the Wieners.
And click to see the photos I took at the Fourth Annual Running of the Wieners.

Ha. I’ve noticed that I’ve habitually misspelled Wieners as Weiners. Oops.
That’s my bad. 🙂