For our weekend entertainment, we took a few days off \u00a0and traveled to\u00a0Cincinnati to visit our friends Ed and Kim, and their young son who I hadn’t seen yet. \u00a0Whew, good times, but I”m beat down. \u00a0We took off driving that direction Wednesday night after work, and made it as far as St. Louis, where we stayed with Donette’s sister and brother-in-law. \u00a0I wasn’t sure I was even going to make it that far, I could hardly keep my eyes open driving. \u00a0We finally got there though, and visited for about 5 minutes before I fell asleep.<\/p>\n
Thursday we got up and hit the road again. \u00a0It was a generally horrible drive the rest of the way to their house, not that there is such a thing as a good drive. \u00a0We hit some brutal construction along the way, and spent a fair amount of time at a standstill on I-70. \u00a0 \u00a0We trudged through it though, and got there right about dinner time. \u00a0We toured their new \u00a0house, then took a walk around the corner and ate some grub \u00a0at a nice local diner.<\/p>\n
Friday Ed had to work, so Kim was \u00a0left home \u00a0to entertain us. \u00a0We slept in a bit, then loaded up the car and headed down for a little \u00a0exercise at a nearby state park. \u00a0We parked at the Avoca trailhead, which is part of the Little Miami Trail<\/a>. \u00a0It’s rather similar to the Katy Trail in that it is an old converted railway, but it is much longer and asphalt-paved. \u00a0Luckily I’d hauled my bicycle with me, and I got in a quick 25-mile ride along the flat smooth path. \u00a0Donette and Kim did some jogging with the baby meanwhile, and somehow or another we finished up at the same time. \u00a0After that we went out for lunch at a nearby Mexican restaurant, then back to the house. \u00a0After a bit, Ed showed up from work, with a big bag of assorted sausages from their Whole Foods Market. \u00a0He grilled those up for dinner, then some friends of theirs came over and we all sat in the back yard and enjoyed the weather.<\/p>\n Saturday Ed and I got up early-ish and headed out to his parent’s house for the big Pigfest<\/a> party. \u00a0We pitched in a little and helped set up all the various events, such as the wiffle-ball fields, the cornhole tournament, etc. \u00a0I spent no small amount of time standing around admiring the new pig roaster they had for this year’s event too. \u00a0For many years they’ve done the pig over an open pit, which while certainly functional isn’t necessarily too efficient and involves quite a bit of work. \u00a0The rig they borrowed this year was an enclosed cooker, with several well-thought-out features that made the job a little easier. \u00a0The crowd started trickling in around noon, and by 3:00 the party was in full force. \u00a0I couldn’t even guess how big the crowd got, but to give you some idea they had a 200 lb. pig and there wasn’t much left over. \u00a0After dinner MER<\/a> put on a good show for us all, and then the evening degraded into the traditional revelry. \u00a0I posted a few carefully screened photos here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sunday brought the inevitable drive home. \u00a0We had a little better luck with the construction, and honestly it wasn’t that bad. \u00a0We broke things up a bit by stopping by her sister’s again, and also in Columbia to see her niece at MU. \u00a0We got back home around 10:00 or so, and promptly crashed out. \u00a0Today we both had the day off, so we could get reoriented a little bit before heading back to work. \u00a0Donette’s parents were nice enough to take care of the 50-lb. wiggle-bomb while we were gone, so we drove up and got her, and now I think I shall take a nap…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For our weekend entertainment, we took a few days off \u00a0and traveled to\u00a0Cincinnati to visit our friends Ed and Kim, and their young son who I hadn’t seen yet. \u00a0Whew, good times, but I”m beat down. \u00a0We took off driving that direction Wednesday night after work, and made it as far as St. Louis, where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}