Well, here we are in the Queen City - Cincinnati, Ohio on the banks of the Ohio River. This morning we drove into downtown Evansville to check out the city. Would you believe they had a casino on a riverboat on the Ohio River? Imagine that! Even harder to believe may be that we didn't gamble there at all - just walked through the level which was open to check out what was happening. It was the Aztar which is in the process of being converted to the Tropicana chain.
We did go back ashore and had breakfast at their buffet which was in a building on the shore side of the casino. Then we walked along the riverfront to check out the various monuments and plaques. There were several monuments to various wars and a welcome center. As we were on the waterfront, a huge barge (actually several of them) with its' tug was moving downstream. There was a welcome center in the form of a pagoda - originally it was an open air shelter and they converted it to the center.
Afterwards, we drove back up to I-64 and continued our leisurely trip to Cincinnati. We planned on a short travel day, so we decided to get off the Interstate and take one of the smaller roads up to the Ohio River and see the countryside. The Interstate was pretty much the same as interstates anywhere. Fun driving through the horse country outside of Louisville and then along the Ohio River. We were surprised at the large number of steel plants up in the Carrollton, Kentucky area - one after the other for several miles.
We had a Subway lunch at a park along the Ohio near Ghent, KY. Drove into Cincinnati - quite a change from the relaxed countryside into the busy metropolis. Again, you may find this hard to believe, but there is a Harrah's Casino here - who knew? OK, maybe we did know and made reservations at the Cincinnatian Hotel. As is typical in this part of the country, the hotel is not connected to the casino. The Horseshoe Casino is in a riverboat on the river and you have to take a shuttle from the hotel over to the Casino. That's for this evening's entertainment - right we're awaiting the jury verdict in the Jodi Arias trial.
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