Friday, September 9, 2011

Yay for off days

I know I never actually did a blog for wednesday....but it was actually rather lacking in exciting material....it rained...no one came to the zoo....went home early.


Ok weekend time!!!!


Thursday I woke up and went to Newport on the Levee to see the 1st showing of crazy, stupid, love...I liked it a lot...plus its always nice to be the ONLY person in the theater.  See I felt the need to go early because movie theaters screw people over now on prices....so to get a decent price I have to go to the first showing which turns out is still 6 dollars....then after that until 3:30 its 8.50...after 3:30 its 10.50.  I am not paying 10.50 for a movie....I am still used to my college pricing of 3.50 all the time....it was amazing!


Then I found this pizza place called Dewey's so I decided to try it.  It turns out it was a sit down nice restaurant....and I was eating by myself...which doesnt bother me, but I may have confused the servers and other customers....whatever I had a really good calzone that I had to finish later for friday's dinner.


After that I went to Kenwood mall again and wandered around....bought a charger for my car for my lovely ipod...really dont know why I havent already bought one....its a pretty practical thing to have.  I like to window shop basically so then I wandered over to Barnes and Noble and skimmed through the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden History book...its pretty interesting actually....they had native americans live on the zoo grounds for one summer....and of course the major passenger pigeon thing....if you dont know...which I would assume most dont but Martha was the last living passenger pigeon ever and she lived at the zoo until she died in 1914.


Anyways Friday I went to Union Terminal here in Cinci which has 3 museums and a Cleopatra exhibit....along with being a major amtrak terminal.  I went to the History Museum for Cinci, the Cleopatra exhibit, and the Natural History Museum.  I am basically a sucker for museums....and really anything family oriented....zoos, aquariums, museums, amusement parks.....


I really enjoyed walking around learning things and even got to wander through the largest man-made cave in america....doesnt compare to the real thing...but still fun.


Pictures of my adventures:  sorry all of them arent great...had to use my phone...left my camera at home

Union Terminal - or as I was told it is the Hall of Justice for the comics Justice League




inside of union terminal

inside of union terminal

historical mark

stalagmites inside manmade cave

mummy


never heard of this cat

lion


saber tooth tiger!!!!

you could turn a wheel which opened and closed the bottom jaw

Jefferson's Ground Sloth

Elk-Moose

see below picture

also called Brontosaurus

armored fish thing...thought its face looked funny

AND THAT CONCLUDES MY WEEKEND!!!!!

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