This weekend Todd participated in the World's Largest Human Typewriter. (He was the letter W.) I'm not entirely sure how it worked.

On Saturday we decided to venture out of the Cincinnati city limits for a change. I've been feeling boring lately, mostly because I am bored, so we needed to have a change of scenery. We consulted our "Day Trips from Cincinnati" book and headed North-East to Lebanon. Contrary to the news reports, we found the city intact and no signs of Israeli bombs. (haha....)

After a few wrong turns (Thanks Google Maps!) and a brief bicker between Todd and I, we reached our final destination. Lebanon was a quaint town filled with antique shops and bric-a-brac gift shops. We dined at the village Ice Cream Parlor and had delicious burgers and real cherry cokes. Apparently The village Parlor was films in both Milk Money and Harper Valley PTA. They seemed very proud of this. They also sold postcards of local attractions, including a postcard of G.W. Bush giving a speech in front of the Inn right across the street. The village had a few framed autographs of Republicans that had passed through the city...Bush, Dole, Bush Sr... Notice a trend...

After a trip to the Warren County History Museum (where we learned all about the fashions of the high society ladies in Warren County 100 years ago) we visited the Golden Turtle Chocolate Factory. Yum! It smelled wonderful.

In the 5th bric-a-brac gift shop we visited we realized a pattern. I was looking at the paper dolls when I noticed that they had paper dolls for Nancy Reagan, George and Barbara Bush, Nixon and his family, Gerald Ford and his family....and that was it. I mean, while it is an option that they were just sold out of the Hillary Clinton and Jimmy Carter paper dolls, it seems more likely that they just never had them...

I began to realize that Todd and I were not welcome in this city. It all started to fit together...I mean, had we even seen a person of color since we entered Lebanon? There were an awful lot of American Flags lining the streets. We decided that we had to get out before our car was plastered with "Support Our Troops" bumper stickers.

On our way back to Cincinnati we stopped at Northside (The gay part of the city) because we just had to be near some like-minded people. We rented some movies at our favorite video store and bought some new CDs. For the record, I am really digging "Boy Least Likely To." I would suggest that everybody pick up a copy. (It's really fun!)