A Refreshing Weekend

This past Friday and Saturday I was blessed to have a visit from my brother and his wife. It was a long time coming! We had a wonderful time exploring Cincinnati and sharing some good laughs. They got here Friday evening and we had some wine and cheese before heading downtown for dinner. Of course I had to take them to my workplace, Nada for some delcious food.

Here we are outside after eating a very filling meal! Claudio, Andrew, Emily, and I decided to order a few entrees and share them so we could get a good taste of several dishes. We started off with the Nadarita (house-made margarita), chips, salsa, and guacamole. I could eat our chips for days! Our lovely server brought us out some small soups including tortilla soup and the creamy butternut squash soup. We then had the cazuela tasting (a portion of each cazuela), a pork belly taco, grilled redfish taco, and the carnitas taco. All amazing! We finished it off with the sweet and fresh tres leches. I was happy to impress my family with such delicious food and hospitality.

After dinner we walked to Fountain Square to show Andrew and Emily and then headed home. On Saturday I woke up fairly early to prepare blueberry pancakes with fruit and of course coffee. After we enjoyed our breakfast we all went to Findlay Market, a Cincinnati must-see. I knew Andrew and Emily would love Findlay Market for all its many vendors selling a huge variety of foods. We all decided to eat at Pho Lang Thang, a Vietnamese cafe. It was my first time trying "pho," a soup that uses many spices, rice noodles, and beef. It was nice to eat the warm delcious soup while sitting outside in the sun!

Claudio and I enjoyed visiting with my brother and Emily and showing them just a small part of Cincinnati and NKY. Cannot wait to do it again!