Trip to Cincinnati

At the beginning of this week we had an opportunity to go to Cincinnati. Before we left I spoke to a lady in my ward and she said that we needed to visit the bridges of Cincinnati...and here I am. In the background you can see one of the bridges and I'm standing on the Purple People Bridge, a pedestrian bridge from Cincinnati to Newport, Kentucky.

And here's the name plate showing the name of the bridge. The bridge really is purple...kind of a lilac colored bridge.

Further down the bridge you can see SM walking on the right side. We actually walked across the bridge and ate dinner in Kentucky and then crossed a different bridge back into Ohio to return to our hotel.

Here's a man made out of maps holding the world on his shoulders. We found these statues on a main square in downtown Cincinnati. It was fun to walk around and look at everything.

This is Grater's Ice Cream. It is a very well-known ice cream made in Cincinnati and it is delicious. One of the cool facts about the ice cream is that in the mixing process, they do not stir it so that air gets into the ice cream. The ice cream stays dense and rich and creamy. As we were eating our ice cream we did get a few comments from other people saying that Grater's was a really good ice cream.

As we were walking toward the bridges we found ourselves surrounded by people wearing red clothing. And soon the stadium made an appearance. There was a Cincinnati Red's Baseball game that night. In fact, we weren't able to walk on a certain sidewalk because there were fireworks set up for later that evening.

Here's the main statue of the plaza in downtown Cincinnati.

SM walked over to this homemade "statement" of a bird in the cage. I think he read the plaque on the cage...something about freeing birds.

This was a water fountain and statue together. It was outside the downtown library. The statue is of books and water. This library was several stories tall and right across the street from our hotel, in fact, I could see into the top floor of the library from my hotel room.