I chose… wisely. I mean, it’s Ohio State. I’d never ever pick the Buckeyes to win anything!

Classic. I love March Madness! 🙂

UPDATE: THE Ohio State University just got trolled hard by the Dayton Daily News…

Just awesome. 🙂

Today was the last day of winter. And winter went out with a drizzle…





I am not going to miss this winter. I’m happy today was your last day. 🙂

The NCAA Tournament tipped off tonight with the First Four up in Dayton. Xavier snuck
into the tourney. They play North Carolina State tonight at Dayton Arena. Let go, X!

UPDATE: And… Xavier’s season is done. They lost to the Wolfpack 74-59.

Remember a few years back when tickets to the First Four were still reasonably priced,
and Chuck and I went to the First Four a few years back? Yeah. Good times. 🙂

Walking through Lytle Park, we noticed all the flowers sprouting up out of the earth…


Hopefully, it’s a sign that spring will be here soon! 🙂

I was craving spaghetti for lunch. I scoured Downtown Cincinnati Inc’s restaurant list
of available Italian and pizzeria options. Then looked for my spaghetti options. I saw
on Snappy Tomato Pizza’s website that they have baked spaghetti. I’ve never ate at the
Snappy Tomato down at Fourth and Walnut Streets. And thought I would give it a try…

When I get there, they don’t have spaghetti. Only baked rigatoni. Fine.


The rigatoni was just okay. The biggest hinderance was trying to break through that thick
protective layer of cheese with a flimsy plastic fork. Once I finally broke though, like I
said, it was just okay. I was pretty excited that it came with two pieces of garlic bread.
But those were pretty soggy. And not very garlic-y. I glanced at their all-you-can eat lunch
pizza buffet while I ws waiting, it didn’t look bad. Nothing to get all excited about. But
seems like a good value at $6. Hopefully, it’s better than their rigatoni. Because at the
end of the end, I’m still really craving spaghetti.

This afternoon we checked out the St. Patrick’s Day celebration on Fountain Square.
















We’ve really missed all the events on the Square. If you missed Saturday’s St. Patty’s Day
celebration, you get another chance to celebrate all things Irish on the Square Monday from
11am to 2pm and 5pm to 8pm! 🙂

The annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade took place at noon today in downtown Cincinnati.
And for the second year in a row, the parade route came down Sycamore Street right
in front of building! People were out early lining the streets…

We ended up taking the dogs on a walk right as the parade was approaching home…



















Parades are fun. 🙂

We wanted a couple more pints of the delicious Chickow! from Triple Digit Brewery so
we headed back to Red Rosst Tavern. On the way in, there was another Canstruction
on display. Hunger is Wicked…





Great beers! Genifer had her Quinoa salad again. And I had this amazing Irish burger…

YUM!:)

And
click to see all the photos I took of the 2014 Canstruction.

On my way back to the office with lunch, I stopped in the main branch of the library to take
a look at some more Canstruction exhibits. First up was Out to Minion-mize Hunger…



And Power Up to Fight Hunger…



Pretty cool stuff! 🙂

Click to see all the photos I took of the 2014 Canstruction.

On my way home from work, I stopped into the Weston Art Gallery to check out their share
of the 17th annual Canstruction exhibition on display all over downtown Cincinnati…

Saving the Kingdom, One Can at a Time…


Fighting Hunger: One Fork at a Time…



Study of Cans as a Wall with Pattern and Texture…



Ducking the Obstacles of Hunger…



And a display without a title…


My favorite was Saving the Kingdom, One Can at Time…

Awesome, awesome stuff. I can’t wait to check out the rest of the Canstruction exhibits! 🙂
Click to see all the photos I took of the 2014 Canstruction.

And click to see all the photos I’ve taken at the Weston Art Gallery.