Carpe Diem: Mary Queen of Heaven

Wednesday 8:12pm Mojojacob announces she's never been to a fish fry and starts the ball rolling.

Wednesday 11:02pm Andi says, "Great idea! I'm in. I feel like I need a fish fry passport..."

Thursday 9:03am the 'Nomerati asks who has photoshop skills?

Thursday 9:06am I admit I can open and close photoshop proficiently

Thursday 9:32am Andi says she won't be able to work on a passport until the evening

Thursday 12:20pm no one else has done anything so I throw out the first design. The first of many back and forthes as the ideas fly fast and furious

Thursday 1:03pm Maureen asks for something that requires actual artistic skills and I ask her if she's seen drag and drop?

Thursday 2:02pm Its done, Laura dropped in on Kinko's and they laid it all out and created the passports with my cover and Laura's inserts.
Now those were just the highlights, there must have been a hundred updates in that stream, it was crazy.
That done all that's left is to wait for Friday and the first fish fry of the season.

I haven't been to a fish fry in a long time and never in Cincinnati. I remember them from when I was younger. They were just things to endure in embarrassment in a church basement with your parents so I wasn't expecting too much out of this although I've heard that Mary Queen of Heaven was probably the best fish fry in the area. No that's not quite right, everyone says its the best fish fry with no qualifications. We'll see.

Every time I start thinking bloggers are just like normal people something like this happens. We can't even do something simple like just showing up at a fish fry, oh no, we have to go large, so passports clutched in hand we walked into Mary Queen of Heaven's fish fry.

My notes, The fish and battered fries were just a touch greasy, but just enough to make you inhale them. The fries were crunchy outside tender inside. maybe some of the best fries I've had anywhere.


They had a bunch of side shows going on, the kids in fish costumes, the cod fathers walking around, and then there was Ben the Beer man, hands down the most popular person in the gymnasium.



This definitely isn't your father's fish fry but I think it helped we didn't take ourselves serious and had a good time with it. You should have seen the look on Fathers face when we all asked him to sign our passports, he was having a good time of it too. at least until the 7th or 8th book. I still think he got a kick out of it.
Once we where there the tweets started pouring in, you wouldn't believe how many suggestions we've gotten for fish fry's to try.
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