Valentine's Weekend and Cincinnati

Our Valentine's weekend began with a rough trip to Kentucky. Apparently, KCI decided to let go too many employees and there was only one shuttle driver for the entire airport and we waited for 45 minutes, only to discover Northwest Airlines will NOT let you on the plane any later than 30 minutes prior to departure time. Not even 22 minutes...Needless to say, we visited Minneapolis, Detroit, and then Louisville before we picked up our rental car to drive to Lexington. I had two interviews at UK College of Dentistry, then we drove to Shawn's hometown, Monticello where we were greeted by our adorable nieces.

Troublesome Trio: Jaedyn, Caleb and Brylee


Getting a Valentine's Day balloon from Aunt Crystal
Friday we drove up to see Jess and David in Cincinnati where we were treated to homemade doughnuts! She even made heart-shaped doughnut holes in chocolate and powered sugar! YUM!

Jess with her delicious doughy creations

Caleb LOVED his breakfast treat

Playing tackle the blankie with uncle David

Aunt Jess treated us to PF Changs for Valentine's Day lunch while the men watched a game at Champs

Next stop, IKEA! We fell in love with the kids section!

Look mommy, egg chairs!
Shawn and I celebrated our Valentine's Day in a very special way. Shawn's top pick for residency program, The Christ Hospital, had a second glance dinner and provided us dinner and a VIP private tour of the Cincinnati Bengal's stadium!

Coach Peavie making an important call during the Superbowl...

NFL shower heads are 8ft tall to accomodate the players

Jessica and Shawn on the 20 yard line

All the action happenin' at the 50 yard line

On the field! Go Bengals go!

In the 50 yard line corporate suite. We could get used to this :)

A view of the stadium from our hotel room

Look at my beautiful flowers we were attempting to get in the background

Skyline view of Cincinnati from our hotel room
Our last stop was Jungle Jim's. This international grocery bazaar is known for their award winning bathrooms including a replica of Henry VIII's velvet lined comode...

Caleb drove the grocery cart around until he found the candy aisle