Eagles Concert / Lexington

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After a good steak dinner at Malone’s Steakhouse in Lexington at Hamburg. We proceeded to our hotel. We decided to stay at the Hyatt because it is connected to Rupp Arena which was the site of the Eagles Concert.

We checked in to our rooms and hurried to Rupp. The concert was a trip in time for me, it carried me back to the summer of 1975.

Wife and I at Eagles Concert
Wife and I at Eagles Concert

That was the summer before my senior year of high school. My friends Jack, Tommy and I loaded up in Jack’s car and went to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina for a week. The drive to the beach took about eight hours and we had a brand new Eagles eight track tape.

Back to 2015. The concert was really good, in that the band walked you through its history. It starts with Don Henley and Glen Frey walking on stage and sitting on stools playing acoustic guitars the song “Saturday Night”.  They then talk about the start of the band and meeting  Bernie Leadon at that point he walks on stage and the three perform “Train Leaves Here This Morning”.  When the three start playing “Peaceful Easy Feeling” Timothy B Schmit walks on to stage and joins them.

Eagles Concert
Eagles Concert

After the song  Henley moves the drums and as the group starts “Witchy Woman” Joe Walsh walks onto stage. The group then takes you through a history of their music.

Besides hearing the songs again the one thing I really enjoyed was seeing Joe Walsh and hearing him play the guitar.  When Don Frey joined him it just does not get any better.

It was a nice evening spent with good music and good friends.  My wife’s sisters and their husbands went the concert with us.

Eagles Concert
Eagles Concert

 

Jungle Jim’s International Market

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  After a steak dinner at Cincinnati’s Jeff Ruby’s Precinct, we decided to visit a place we have always wanted to go to but had never made it.  That place is Jungle Jim’s International Market.

Jungle Jim’s has over 200,000 square feet of space in which they sell over 150,000 items.

Upon entering the store you can either sign up for a tour or just pick up a map to help you find your way.  When we entered we chose the map and started our shopping adventure by working our way through the different countries of the world.  Each country is represented with shelves of foods imported from that country.

From there the food became more as we know it in regular markets, broken down by categories; soups, canned foods, or meat, for example.  But even at this point things are different.  The decorations are unbelievable.  Anything is possible.  Jungle Jim’s has a real navy fire truck to mark the location of the hot sauce and a pirate ship to mark the location of foods from the islands.

Jungle Jim’s also has events such as cooking classes and wine tasting. In their ads they ask you to spend the day and I would guess some people could.  For us it was a fun side to our visit to Cincinnati.