Today for American Swag Day, we decided to hit up Cincinnati (after watching some HIMYM in the morning). We sorta had a few things planned for part of the day, and we were gonna kinda wing the rest of the time we were there.
Turns out Cincinnati is nicer than we thought. We stopped downtown near the bridges that went to Covington and Newport, and it was a pretty cool area to chill out in. After wandering for a while, we had lunch at this sports bar named Cincy's, and the headed to the Cincinnati Museum Center. It was like a supermuseum with a natural science museum, children's museum, Cincinnati history museum, and an IMAX theatre all built in. We started in the natural science section where we climbed into a (fake) cave,...
looked at (fake) animals and bones,...
....and solved (not-so-fake) mysteries about the history of the earth. We then went to the gift shop and shot each other with toy guns until Garrett got his hands on this dinosaur toy (which I didn't get a picture of) which he used to try to take my hat. Later we went to the IMAX to watch this video "To The Arctic", which basically could've been re-titled "The Misadventures of Polar Bear Mother and Her 2 Cubs", but overall it was interesting.
[Romo's having a pretty good game as the Cowboys are winning early in the game.]
We explored some more for a while afterwards, then ate dinner (I failed to find the finest pizza in Cincinnati, I believe), and watched this reggae music performance for a while. We went back down to the river to watch the fireworks. We found a pretty good spot and the fireworks were pretty good...until they stopped about 5 minutes after starting.
[Romo throws that crippling pick-six that gives the opposing team the lead late in the 4th quarter]
Everybody around us kinda sat there wondering if the city of Cincinnati really just trolled everyone like this. There were fireworks everywhere else visible on the horizon, but the city's firework show lasted just 5 minutes. It was so disappointing that it put a pretty strong damper on the day.
[ESPN analysts rip into Romo, calling him unclutch and a loser, all while bringing up that "1 playoff win" thing]
And then the fireworks suddenly continued after a long pause, and they were pretty spectacular. It kinda got real when they released the fireworks that blew up in the image of a happy face, along with some other kinds of fireworks I'd never seen before. It ended up being a pretty awesome display.
[Tony Romo shrugs off his screw-up, leads his team down the field in the game winning drive, despite the fact he gets no help from his defense, and the game is won after all...so people hate on him too much]
Today, Ohio did good. It's still one of the few times Ohio has won since we've been here [...Romo DOES still only have 1 playoff win], but it's been stepping it's game up. Maybe that trend will continue as we keep exploring places far from Dayton.
fuck ROMO
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