"Cinci"

Slowly, i'm checking off visiting the 50 states. This weekend we did 4 states in 4 days. Thursday we left Illinois, drove through Indiana (playing freeze tag at the state line pit stop) stayed in Ohio and visited Kentucky. We both just said to each other, "did you ever think you'd go to Kentucky in your lifetime?"

I admit I was very afraid to make this drive alone. It was 283 miles-thats 4.5 hours folks and I am no driver. I just get SO tired behind the wheel and I am constantly worrying about people texting or cellphone talking or getting dozy and then hitting us. Among a gazillion of things I love about that Brad of mine, I am SO glad he never makes me drive. But, we had to get there to see this cute face:

MY BRAD (standing in his somewhat bleak apartment, but thanks to that apartment we were all able to stay for 3 nights rather than the one we would've been able to afford had we had to get a hotel so yay for the apartment.

Crossing this impressive walking bridge from Cincinnati, Ohio to Newport, Kentucky
I could spend ALOT of time at this place if we end up here. It's this old train terminal turned into a museum center. The structure was magnificent.
He started crawling this weekend...just for dad! Poor kid has a constant bruise on his head now.
The city of Cincinnati behind us. We did it "all". We had the spaghetti with chili on top and a pound of cheese (really!) Skyline cafe was a pleasant surprise and way cheap. Next, we had to try a White Castle burger. Pretty low on my list but it was a 62 cent experience. No trip for the Chambers is complete without sampling the local fare of icecream. There's is known as Graeter's and we indulged. My it was good. It was homemade softish icecream on a cone. In Kentucky we decided we needed to check out what a real horserace was like. We missed the race by minutes but we did see the impressive track. I'm not a die-hard horse person by any stretch but it really was grand seeing that track. If we go back to Cincinnati for residency I will definitely have to see a race.
So thanks to my awesome museum pass my Brad bought for us we've been able to sample children's museums far and wide. Cincinnati's gets an A+ They had a full sized tree house jungle and a whole section of musical instruments from around the world plus more. Then we walked over to the Natural History museum and we got in free (with the pass of course) and that was a pretty awesome experience, too.
The city is set up on a hill and over looks the Ohio river.

p.s. the drive really wasn't that bad. On the way there I just stopped about ever 50 miles and on the way back it just seemed faster and the kids were napping so i just went for it and surprised myself by not even getting tired.