Weekend Getaway: A study in pictures.

Bill and I packed Boo up in the car and headed north to Cincinnati for a surprise overnight trip. I'd booked a two-bedroom suite at the Embassy Suites and aside from the shocking lack of water pressure, we had a lovely time.

First, we checked in, and our room wasn't ready, so while Bill checked in the luggage with the bellhop Boo decided to treat the folks in the lobby to a full-on modeling session:

We then headed to the Newport Aquarium, which doesn't suck and was actually very very clean despite the vast amount of white trash and/or rednecks securing the premises (I'm not being mean. It's just that I've never seen so many Dale Earnhardt memorial t-shirts and General Lee hats all in one place.)




We headed to Dewey's Pizza on the second level of the AMC section of the Newport Levee for lunch, where we nommed so great 'za (in my opinion. Bill deemed it OK, but we all know who has the License to Pizza and it ain't him.), The winner was the buffalo chicken pizza:


And Boo stuffed herself:


... and then got ahold of the camera for some awesome shots of Mom and Dad:



We had some time to kill before our room was ready, so Bill took me to The Party Source, where his friend, Randy, worked for, like, an eon.


I walked in and heard angels singing. Boo took the opportunity to show off her G Money Pimp Style:


We then headed back to the hotel and our room was FINALLY ready. I have to say that a TWO-BEDROOM suite is totally the way to go with kids -- Bill figured out how to plug in the mini DVD player into the huge flat-screen TV in Boo's room and we really didn't see her for the rest of the night.

Our room:
Boo's room:
The view:
Boo being Silly:
We then headed BACK to the levee after a nap for dinner (more on the lack of choices for kids at the levee). The highlight of the evening was NOT dinner; rather, it was the HUGE biker rally. Here are some memorable shots (you may want to burn your eyes out with acid afterward):
Nice BACKLESS leather shirt.

"Dude, Where's my shirt?"

These guys were NOT a part of the motorcycle rally.

Bill took this one. Apparently he thought it was funny.

Afterward, we went back to the hotel, where Boo snuggled in to her bed (look carefully and you'll see her five stuffed animals tucked into the other bed):

And here's a random picture of a bunch of geese:


Today, we woke up and went to Trader Joe's (nom nom nom) and headed home. All in al, a great weekend getaway!