Go Reds!
I love Opening Day! Especially when the weather is beautiful as it is today. Of course I'm a Reds fan, but I'm not a dedicated baseball nut. I rarely go to games and I don't schedule my life around tv broadcasts. But Opening Day is just so exciting. Especially if you work downtown. Normally I hate crowds, but when everyone is wearing Red and in good spirits, I'm there. And the parade! What is it about this parade? I never go out of my way for parades either. But I just had to watch today's. I'm told Cincinnati is the only city that gets so crazy about the start of the baseball season. No other major league city marks the day with a parade?? We couldn't imagine life without one. Here its business as usual. "It's Opening Day. Of course there is a parade."
Today the parade went on and on and on - for over an hour! I was only disappointed that there wasn't any candy being thrown. But the other fast-growing Opening Day tradition makes up for the lack of candy - the office cookout. More and more office buildings have grills set up outside to treat the ticketless employees to a taste of the ballpark.
Go Reds!

Last week CityBeat published its annual "Best of Cincinnati" edition. As I read through it thinking "I need to try that restaurant, I need to check out that shop," I realized another great thing about Cincinnati. There are so many cool places, some obvious, some out of the way waiting to be discovered. That's because Cincinnati is a big city. And a small town. As a city it offers all the cultural, culinary, and entertaining attractions. As a small town all those great places are accessible. Of all the new places and things I wanted to check out from the Best of issue, I realized I actually could feasibly do it all. Some things are a little pricey for most people, like dinner at Jean-Robert at Pigall's, but not out of the question. I could explore Northside one weekend, Covington the next, then Oakley and Clifton.

Bookmark this site: http://www.bestofcincinnati.com/ Next time "there's nothing to do in this city" you can find something to do.