Downtown

I've never been a big fan of downtown Cincinnati, or downtown anywhere, actually. But when we decided to hit the sights before Christmas, I really had fun. We walked our legs off for 2 1/2 hours on a chilly Sunday afternoon. There were families taking in the Christmas displays, overly-enthused Bengals fans walking to the stadium, and all sorts of crazy people trying to ice skate on Fountain Square. We saw the annual train display, fancy store windows, horse drawn carriages and the fountain (without water, at this point). Downtown Cincinnati takes on a whole new perspective when seen from the observation deck of Carew Tower! The ice skaters looked like little ants, and I loved seeing all the old German rowhouses from above. Lots of interesting old buildings with wonderful architectural detail, old Rookwood tile, carved stone. The world is certainly a different place when you have a camera in hand!

These were just a few of my favorites. As you can imagine, we took dozens of pictures between the two of us. And yes, I would be willing to go downtown again on another photo walk, it wasn't so bad after all!