At Friday night’s Reds game, the Reds pitchers combined for 11 strikeouts in the win
over the Cards. And that meant a free small LaRosa’s pizza for everyone at the game.
Today, we took advantage of that offer. Genifer got pepperoni and banana peppers…

And I got regular sausage and Italian sausage…

Yum! We also tried an order of their Rondos…

Pretty good stuff. You can’t beat a lunch that only cost $6! 🙂

This afternoon we walked to monthly The City Flea at the newly renovated Washington Park.









The new Washington Park is really pretty spectacular. What a great venue for The Flea.










Food trucks were on hand…




And it was the very first day for the new grilled cheese truck, C’est Cheese…

Pepper jack grilled cheese with apple butter on a crossiant…

Ammmmazing! And we got a couple of dogs…



And speaking of dogs, there was this awesome, very happy three-legged dog.

The new Washington Park is really something…


Terrific afternoon…

We’ll definitely be back for more events.

🙂

Great American Ball Park and Great American Tower as seen from Lytle Park.

World Choir Games mascot, Twirl was out and about on Fountain Square…

After work and after walking Milan, Genifer and I walked down to The Banks to check out
their bi-weekly thirsty Thursday happy hour called Live After Five. It’s put on by the same
people who put on the Party in the Park over at Yeatman’s Cove on Wednesdays…















Live After Five made for a pretty fun evening. And here are a couple of photos I took with
Instagram on the walk back home…

There were a lot of people packing into Fountain Square today to listen to one of few
remaining World Choir Games Friendship Concerts as the Games begin to wind down.

It’s really neat the way they’ve been having these free performances all over downtown
for everyone to enjoy. And I be a bit sad when the Choir Games are over after Saturday.
Downtown Cincinnati has just been buzzing with excitement and a renewed vibrancy for
the last two weeks. 🙂

So I think Genifer and I might be the only residents in downtown Cincinnati who have
been frequently patronizing the MarketGarden. And that’s a shame. There’s a great
collection of Cincinnati’s Food Trucks all in one spot just begging to serve up some
of their food truck goodness. Tonight, we wandered over to the Garden to get Genifer
her very first burger from the only and only burger truck, Cafe de Wheels…


We ordered a Wheels Burger, a Cowboy Burger and some fries…

Delicious, delicious stuff! And on our way back home, we stopped to listen to a little bit
of this week’s Reggae Wednesday on Fountain Square…

Shanghai Mama’s has REOPENED after a fire gutted the joint back in October.

It’s so good to have them back in the neighborhood. I can’t wait to eat there again.
Oh, how I’ve missed you, Szechuan Chicken flatbread.

Tonight the streets of downtown Cincinnati were taken over by the World Choir Games
Parade of Nations. Here’s the blurb from the WCG blog about the festivities…
“A lively, colorful Parade of Nations through the streets of downtown Cincinnati USA
demonstrates national pride and culminates with a party and concert on Fountain Square.
One in Song will sing the Official Song of the 2012 World Choir Games, “I Can.”

Ye-ah. Well, we missed all that. But we were on hand for the post-parade celebration…















And then the evening returned to the regularly scheduled American Roots…




Click to see all the photos I took at the Parade of Nations celebration.