Riverboat on the Ohio River

Saturday

We were going to be meeting Laura from Dayton airport late this afternoon, so we decided to head up there this morning and spend much of the day up there. We do much of our bike riding around here on the Little Miami Trail - today we biked some of the Great Miami River Trail, starting a little north of Franklin at Crains Run Nature Park and heading north to a few miles short of Carillon Historic Park, for a total of 20 miles, stopping for a sandwich in Miamisburg on the return leg. The Great Miami, like the Little Miami is a tributary of the Ohio, and joins the Ohio just east of the Ohio/Indiana state line. The day was largely overcast, and we actually felt quite cool in the morning - not often we can say that in southern Ohio in August! We still had some time left, so we then visited Wegerzyn Metro Park before going to the airport. Laura had been visiting a friend in Boulder, Colorado. They had known each other in Elementary School, Middle School, and I believe the first year of Junior High, before C. and her family moved, initially to Chicago, and then four years ago to Boulder. They met up several times while they were in Chicago, but hadn't seen each other in five years. Since Laura is going to be out of the country for 2 1/4 years in Macedonia with the Peace Corps, she really wanted to see C. before she left. In the evening the three of us went downtown to the Seafood fest at Newport on the Levee, a shopping and entertainment complex on the riverfront in Kentucky. It was a lovely evening, the skies having cleared somewhat, and I snapped this picture of one of the BB riverboats coming under one of the bridges. There wasn't much in the way of dessert down there, so we stopped at Graeters (a Cincinnati institution!) for an ice cream on the way home. When we got home we watched the movie Driving Miss Daisy - Laura had never seen it, and it was years since we'd seen it, so were quite happy to watch it again - it was a great movie!

One year ago: One-legged duck!