Check out the Cincinnati Streetcar on public display.
Yay!!! The streetcars finally making its way to Cincy!! It’ll be set up by Fountain Square until Nov 10th and open to the public from 11am-7pm to check out if you’d like. I think this is awesome and will hopefully turn around some non believers 
Thanks to Erica over at Cincinnati ReAdventure for the pics!!
For more information check out the Cincy Streetcar Blog!
The Cincinnati Bell/WEBN fireworks are by far, one of thee absolute best fireworks displays. With a little over half a million people viewing it from both sides of the Ohio River, in a small amount of space between 2 bridges. Every year I wonder why I fight the traffic, paying insane amounts to park so far away, walking through downtown to get to the riverbanks to get elbowed and watch snails move through the crowd faster than me…
But then it starts… and all these people come together to see who can be the loudest, and who wins the 4square check in war (well done Kentucky)-even though there was no Super Swarm badge 
187 seemed to be the top out, but on a brighter note i got the special VH1/MTV moonman badge 
and i’m one more trip closer to the Ziggy Wagon’s badge, and the VH1 Badge, yes right here in Cincinnati
But anyways, enough about the epicness that is 4sq and on with the evening.
But the highlight I believe is from the end of the night and stuck walking behind the lady in the shiny purple spandex, purple socks, and a purple sweater; and her poor child in bright lime green leggings, taking after her mom. It’s been submitted to WTFCincy so I’ll link to it soon hopefully 
Ok so my weekend started a little early on Thursday. Now I haven’t been much of a partier since graduating college, so I have to check out Party in the Park and things of that nature on Weds/Thurs, but Oval Opus got back together for a charity event in Newport at JB Fins (on the deck between Hooters and Beer Seller) and I’ll admit that’s a pretty great place to catch a local concert! You’ve got the skyline in the background, you can get up close and personal with the band, there’s all sorts of seating all around the stage, and a bar right outside so you don’t have to miss a moment of the action. Beer prices are a little outrageous if you’re just buying a single beer (I’d recommend the bucket for 6 or more at $2 a piece). And as far as the girly froo-froo drinks go you’re out of luck on the Smirnoff’s or the Bacardi’s, but they do have mixers. On Thurs, they didn’t have a cover when we got there shortly after 9.
Oval Opus performing at JB Fins
Friday was a bit more of an adventure (if that’s even possible) Mind you I work up in the Evendale (Sharonville) Business Park, but I had been hearing nothing but amazing things about the food truck. So I decided I was going to have a lunchtime adventure, and suckered a co-worker into joining me. So a 20 minute drive (really with the whole merging around Hamilton on 75? Who thought that traffic pattern up?!) we grabbed a spot down Race and walked up the block to where Cafe de Wheels Twitter page said they would be. Not too much of a line, which was nice. I noticed Just Q’in next door. Hadn’t heard of them yet. No sign of them on foursquare or Yelp yet, so I might have to give it a try next time.
But from the reviews I decided to go with their signature Wheels Burger and fries. Jess went for the sweet potato fries. I don’t know what it is but those fries (or the seasoning?) is Heaven!! I don’t care for sweet potatoes in any form whatsoever. I don’t even care for the smell. But these were amazing! I’m also an adamant fries-with-ketchup eater only. I ate the whole cup full in the car on the way back. Not a single drop of ketchup they were that good! And the burger… that’s a whole nother scale. I’m a picky eater, but I am adventurous. I’ll try anything once. For instance I love seaweed salads. Not so much of a fan of buffalo burgers/summer sausage. But I’m pretty sure I could eat from Cafe de Wheels every other day (opposite of Skyline and Jimmy Johns of course) They load their toppings and its just amazing.
Later that night it was off to Loveland for Toot’s. Great little pub type feel, not far off of Applebee’s/TGIFriday’s. It’s laid back and offers bang for the buck. You definitely get your moneys worth of burgers and fries. They’ve got pretty good pickle chips as well.
Saturday brings along one of my favorite places to kill an afternoon. Caeser Creek Flea Market. In my opinion it’s a step above Trader’s World, just because simply, there’s not a thing you CAN”T find here. Yeah there’s a few of your typical “jink” booths, but for the most part, they’ve got a huge selection. Trader’s World isn’t quite as diverse IMO. The only questionable thing here is the shed at the beck of the parking lot… Those that have been, know. For those that don’t… well, I don’t know if any youngsters stumble on here. But it was good time with a cute new necklace, and some candles.
While we were in the area, and this is the best part of the whole weekend, we decided to hit Rod’s Capricorn Inn.
This is the only thing you'll see on the side of the road letting you know what's there
I frequent this place once a year during Homecoming with my Sorority, and it’s just not enough. This place is the epitome of hole-in-the-wall, grease pit, dive place. And it. is. A-MAZING. Rod is normally back in the kitchen cooking and singing to country music or oldies. He’s a little off pitch but never seems to care. The burgers are massive! As in I had to fold mine in half and it still stuck out the bun!
Notice the meat spilling over the ginormous pile of mushrooms
It's a task to wolf one of those down, but oh so worth it.
The sides are generous enough, the toppings are never endingly cascading out of the sandwich, and your drink still comes in a can with a glass of ice. It’s got plastic picnic table clothes. and the back room/party area has actual picnic tables with the same tablecloths over them. It’s just so quaint and out of the way and divey that it is worth the drive up 730 from Wilmington. I promise.
So as I’ve been digging more and more into this whole blogging thing for work and I couldn’t help but notice a few other Cincy people really into blogging as well! I mean i blogged in high school and some in college on Xanga and LiveJournal (are those sites even still around?!) back when it “”wasn’t cool and people wondered why the heck I wasted my time with them. This can’t be that hard right?
So anyways after checking out some of these blogs and currently getting started on the Yelp scene I figured “might as well” I need a new venue off of Facebook anyhow. And I noticed a lot of these happened to center more around downtown. But thats the great thing about Cincinnati… it’s a bunch of small towns and communities that make up one great awesome city! If I can help out some over noob to the city, then this all won’t be in vain right? So come join me in my crazy adventures through the city, and the occasional side trip to other parts of Ohio and the country (aka my theme park rantings). I promise if nothing else it’ll (hopefully) be entertaining
This was the pretty rainbow my phone stinks at capturing outside the front door of my office building in Evendale/Sharonville this morning 
