Good morning everyone! I hope ya’ll are having a great day!
I am having an amazing weekend! We are in Cincinnati celebrating our 5th
wedding anniversary and the wedding of our friends Carrie and Chad!
We drove up on Friday and the ride was spectacular. There is
nothing more beautiful than Kentucky in the fall. We arrived in Cincinnati
around 3pm and stopped at Skyline for Chili! Then we checked into the hotel.
I have always liked Cincinnati. For those of you who have
never been, it is a beautiful city with lots to do. Friday evening, we decided
to go to Trader Joe’s. I know, I know, we have Trader Joe’s in Nashville but
due to Nashville’s laws preventing the sale of wine and liquor in the same
store as beer, we are unable to buy “2 Buck Chuck” in Nashville. For those of
you unfamiliar with Trader Joe’s, “2 Buck Chuck” is the store brand wine. It is
an exceptionally good wine and originally cost $2 per bottle. It is now $3.79
but still an exceptional value. Whenever we are in a new city, we go by and
stock up on 2Buck Chuck!
Now, the best part of the evening!!!! We went to Jungle
Jims! This is an International Market in Cincinnati! It was beyond cool! The
store sells anything and everything that you could imagine. There is an international
section where the aisles are twice the length of Kroger aisles and they are
labeled by country. Plus the frozen food section is twice the size of Kroger’s.
But that is just the beginning!!!! There is a regular grocery store, a seafood
market, a butcher shop, a bakery, a deli, a liquor store, a cigar shop, a candy
store, a gourmet section with cooking utensils and implements, and an amazing
produce section with fruits and vegetables that I have never seen or heard of!
My favorite sections though were the cheese shop and the natural food section.
The cheese shop is made up of 8-10 areas with cheeses
divided not by country but by ingredients and/or type. There was a whole dairy
case of goat and sheep cheese! There was also a gourmet butter bar!
The natural food selection was unbelievable. There were
multiple selections of every food group imaginable! There was even a gluten
free bread selection. Most stores in Nashville have one or 2 different loaves
of gluten free bread. Jungle Jims had a selection of loaf breads, French
baguettes, deli breads, sub rolls, bread sticks and homemade cupcakes, cookies
and brownies!
We were there for 2 hours and did not see a fraction of the selection. The store is so large that there is a map and the ceiling is painted different colors to correspond with the map to keep people from getting lost. At the check out, I asked the cashier how big the store was and was told that it is 250,000 square feet. To put that into perspective, a regular Wal-Mart is 97,000 square feet.
On Saturday we went to the Cincinnati Museum. It is located in the beautiful art deco Union Terminal Building. We spent the majority of the day looking at the exhibits and watching a great movie on the building of the Canadian Railroad across the Rockies.
For lunch we tried Gold Star Chili because a trip to Cincinnati is not complete without comparing the chili, am I right? For those of you who have been to Cincinnati, I am interested in which chili you prefer!
Last night we went to the reception for Chad and Carrie! What a great time. Too much food and good times and the band was great! They came up from Nashville. They are called Rubiks Groove. Check them out on You tube!
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