Cincinnati! ( this was 6 cities ago...)

Our return to Cincinnati was great fun! If you remember, we were there the last week of October doing final tech rehearsals. It felt neat to come back to a place that was familiar...almost like we were home again! The first day back was Thanksgiving and our company management team organized Thanksgiving dinner for us on a river boat cruise! ( We had NO shows on Thanksgiving- this is the first time in 5 years that I didn't preform on Thanksgiving....and it was great!!) We had the whole second floor of the boat reserved for Radio City people...half of them I didn't even recognize because we have soooo many crew/ tech guys I've never even seen! The weather was a perfect sunny 60 degree day. Dinner was okay, good enough, but the pumpkin pie was delicious! They actually ran out of pumpkin pie by the time I went to get dessert, so I asked our waitress if there was any left anywhere on the boat....so she was sneaky and snagged a few pies from another floor! Thanks goodness because my Thanksgiving wouldn't have been complete without pumpkin pie! After the river boat cruise ended a bunch of use went to the movie theater to let our dinners settle. I went to see Twilight with a few other fans of the books and unfortunately we were really disappointed. Maybe I had my expectations too high....or maybe it was that too may things I'd imagined and pictured while reading the book were totally wrong in the movie, I don't know? Anyway, we were determined not to leave the movie theater disappointed, so we stayed to see Four Christmases. Since we were going round 2 for movies, we thought a round 2 of food was necessary, so we grabbed a huge popcorn and large sodas and settled in for movie #2. Four Christmases was cute and funny and it made me laugh....I love when Vince Vaughn rambles on!
It was back to the grind of doing shows for the next few days, but it was so nice because we were already familiar to the backstage area and we had our same dressers back who were really excited to see us. My friend Bridgette, from the baton world, came to see the show with her Mom and Aunt and they all loved it. I took them backstage and they were having fun trying on some of my hats and stuff.
It was great/ dangerous to be right across the street from a Saks for Black Friday shopping! I did some minor damage with a cute top and a sensible pair of heels. I started to feel a little under the weather by Sunday, which couldn't have come at a better time because it was my day off, so I stayed in bed and read about 3/4 of the third Twilight book. ( I have since finished the book, and *spoiler alert* I was dying on the proposal chapter...it was just too sweet and prefect :)
Downtown Cincinnati was cute, it almost felt like a tiny New York City because there was a big tree and ice skating rink out in front of our hotel that was like Rockefeller Plaza. We walked everywhere, and there were cute restaurants and shops and Starbucks on many corners. Maybe that's why it felt so familiar?? Oh ya, and if anyone ever goes to Cincinnati you must go to Nada- an excellent Mexican fusion restaurant with crazy good mac and cheese- and Graeter's Ice Cream- yummy & delicious family owned Cincinnati ice cream....I recommend peppermint ice cream with hot fudge! YUM!