December 3rd, 2005 - Cincinnati Birthday Road Trip with Kayla
Back in August when we went to Kentucky we went to Cincinnati as well; well I came home and was ranting and raving about how much I was impressed with the city. The hilly terrain, the ghettoness, the street...Cincinnati seemed to have it all.
So when my birthday came around, I got an envelope with letters spelling "we gon tag Cincinnati or"; once I rearranged it, I found that it said "we are going to Cincinnati" as well. Woot!
I was psyched because I got to use Kayla's laptop along the way and game some
Final Fantasy Mystic Quest.
Get that Slime!
The ride there was quite uneventful, but once we got there I realized that Kayla got us a hotel with valet parking and 300's on rims parked out front. Flossing.
Riding the Elevator to the 5th floor.
The rooms even had those crazy on-demand keyboards.
Anyway, we sort of rushed there after Kayla was done work so that we could go to this restaurant.
I spotted this along the way but too bad these cuber blocks were cemented down.
So after our delicious Jambalaya & Gumbo dinner (at Redfish's - highly recommended if you're ever in Cincy), she told me the rest of the night was up to me. She might have had something else in mind, but I know what I wanted...it was my birthday and I wanted to get my drink on.
So we headed out in the Jetta looking for a ghetto liquor mart (where else?), we drove by a couple that had too many shady people out front, until Kayla stopped at one and told me to go buy it. I looked and like 10 people were hanging out playing dice and shading it up; I looked at her like she was nuts and she told me, "it's a lighted area, you're fine."
Anyway, good thing that place was locked and closed, we went up the road and found a drive thru liquor mart closing as we pulled up. So we pulled in line and a guy popped out the back of the place.
Ghetto Drive Thru Liquor Mart Worker: "What you need?"
Navi: "What 40's you got?"
Ghetto Drive Thru Liquor Mart Worker: "You want ghetto or good beer?"
Navi: "Ghetto"
Ghetto Drive Thru Liquor Mart Worker: "I got it all, OE, Colt 45, 211..."
Navi: "Give me 2 211's"
So we preceded to the window where the lights on the sign went off and we were last to purchase that night. A drawer came out of a window with a ice cream bucket with a shoestring attached to it where you put your money and the drawer slid back in. Once cashed out, the bucket returned with change & 40's.
Awesome. So we spent that night drinking some 40's in our hotel room. When the drinking was going slow I proposed that we bet over/under on the steer riding we were watching. That still wasn't quick enough, so I put on Entertainment Tonight and Kayla would drink whenever there was a celebrity she wouldn't sleep with (85% of male actors), or I'd drink when there'd be a celebrity I would sleep with (85% of female actresses).
We got waxed quick and headed to the Hustler store, but it had closed 3 hours earlier.
I'll let Kayla handle what happened when we got
back to the hotel:
"Adam passed out on the bed immediately, on top
of everything, including all of the pillows. So after having wrestled one
away from him, I went to sleep. I woke up in the middle of the night and told
Adam to go under the covers. So he pulled the comforter over himself, leaving
me only under a sheet. I woke up in the morning freezing. Adam had turned on
the air conditioning in December. I'll never understand why he's so warm all
of the time."
Source:
http://spaces.msn.com/members/dallynk/PersonalSpace.aspx?_c01_blogpart=blogmgmt&_c=blogpart
When looking out in the morning, I liked how I could look out over everything.
Looking up at the upper floors.
We parked the Jetta in a parking garage across from 1 of the 2 street riding spots we rode last time in Cincinnati.
For not being intentional, I thought this was an interesting coincidence.
So we definitely hit up the Hustler store the next day.
Porn Star action figures...got to start 'em young.
A giant Pete Rose painting at the Hustler store.
So since Cincinnati is just a bridge ride away from Kentucky, we headed there as Kayla wanted to go.
The first priority in the morning was to hit up somewhere to eat. Big Boy in Park Hills, Kentucky.
I really wish we could have went deeper into Kentucky to get that thicker accent, oh well.
So we drove around Park Hills & Ludlow, Kentucky for a bit (it was quite breathtaking and hilly), and then we ended up on a road where we got this view of Cincinnati.
Stopping for liquor, I spotted this. Bugler loves it.
We ended up driving around Park Hills & Ludlow, Kentucky more than Cincinnati because of all the great architecture and views.
Signage in front of Holmes High School, Kentucky
We did head back to Cincy after a bit and headed for the hills. Once at the top, there was a nice little park with great views over the Ohio River, Kentucky & Cincinnati.
The park did have some walls Kayla had trouble climbing.
They were quite high after all.
I shouldn't talk shit though, as I was trying to be a hot shot and one hand hop over them and hurt my knee...
Kayla by the steps up to aforementioned wall
Kayla trying to Dziamaarsky's thunder in fondling some nipples.
I figured the sculptures looked happy, so I gave it a try.
Kayla by some duck cooking sculpture.
I thought this building painting was large.
Wondering what the hell was on the banner the last couple of weeks...it's the Fun Tunnel!
By the way, we saw this when we stopped at The Cracker Barrel; it was my first time stopping at that restaurant, but Kayla swore by it. I personally didn't think it was that great of place, but I like more processed, greasy food and it was too much like home cooking for me.
Ohio was rampant with drive-thru liquor marts, when's one coming to Belle River?
As with a lot of trips to the US, some liquor was purchased.
A 60oz of Vodka for $18; sounds good to me!
So that was Cincinnati...these pictures do nothing even close to justice for the city; you need to go there personally. My dumb signage/liquor pictures shouldn't defer you; I give Cincinnati 9/10 stars, but that's without biking, I hear it's bad for biking but I've only rode there for 10 minutes.
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