We took Milan to get his annual check-up and renewed all his shots and vaccines.

And he everything checked out fine with him. The vet said he’s in perfect health.

He should be all good for the next year. 🙂

It was one of my coworkers birthdays and we went to Istanbul Cafe.

I ordered a Doner wrap, beef and lamb. And it was good.

But there are definitely better gyros in downtown Cincinnati.

I’m glad we went to the baseball game last night and not tonight.
It looks like it’s going to pour tonight.

UPDATE: It sprinkled all evening but the Reds got through their game
and won 4-2! Go Redlegs. 🙂

Genifer got an article she wrote published in a Sociology textbook!


Except they spelled her name wrong…

😡

In celebration of Earth Day, a three-week installation of original sculptures made out
of recycled and/or recyclable materials has been on display on Fountain Square.

At lunchtime today was the official award ceremony for 2012 EcoSculpt where the first,
second and third place winners as well as the people’s choice award winner were announced.
The Cliftones provided entertainment before and after the ceremony. And there were various
earth friendly vendors displayed on the Square for all to browse.










Third place went to “Timeless.”


Second place went to “The Windmill Putt.”


The People Choice winner went to “Vegetation Regurgitation.”


And the first place award at the 2012 EcoSculpt went to “Renewed Tree of Life.”






There’s always something interesting happening in downtown Cincinnati. 🙂

Click to see all the photos I took of the 2012 EcoSculpt sculptures.
And click to see all the photos I took at the 2012 EcoSculpt Awards.

Genifer got new red Converse All-Stars to wear to the Reds games.

I hope they bring the team some luck. 🙂

After we were done with all the pirate laser tag fun, we went over to Genifer’s brother’s
house to continue her nephew’s birthday celebration with a grill-out, cake and presents.


What a great afternoon. 🙂

Today was Genifer’s nephew’s birthday. We headed over to the Westside to met them
at Scallywag Tag for some pirate laser tag. I had never played pirate laser tag
before so needless to say, I was really pretty excited to check it out.




The matches were 20 minutes long and wicked fun. I locked down the fourth place
in the first match, and Genifer came in eighth…

I also got the award for best accuracy in the first game…

Here’s a look at the Scallywag Tag pirate laser tag arena…

They also had some crazy arcade games that I had never heard of.



But you can never go wrong with the classics…

In the second match, we didn’t fare as well. I got fifth and Genifer got tenth…

But holy geez. Scallywag Tag is soo much fun. You don’t even know. Oh. And, they have
18 holes of glow-in-the-dark pirate themed mini golf…

But we decided that we’d save that for another day. 🙂

Tonight, we went to the Taft Theatre to see one of our favorite Cincinnati bands, Bad Veins.
They hold a special place in our relationship because as you might remember, we saw them play
on our first date. And we hadn’t seen them play since last summer on Fountain Square. Tonight
was the CD release party for their eagerly-anticipated second album, “The Mess We’ve Made.”
So it’s needless to say that we were pretty excited to see them play again. And just down the
street from home. Cmon, let’s go!


















They put on such a great show. We can’t wait to sit down and listen to the new album.
Click to see all the photos I took at the Bad Veins show.

I told Genifer a lot about Currito since they’ve opened. And today we walked over
for lunch so that she could check it out for herself. Genifer wanted to try their
Classic burrito first before she tried any of their specialty burritos. I tried
their Cajun burrito… Chicken, cajun spices, black beans, roasted corn and rice.



YUM! We both really, really like Currito. A lot. 🙂