Cincy Cinco Fiesta

Happy Cinco de Mayo! Over the weekend my family and I visited the Cincy-​Cinco Latin Festival on Fountain Square. The 12^th annual event took place Saturday and Sunday and featured Latin music, dance, and food.
While my wife and I were able to enjoy some Mexican beers and Latin styled food, our kids loved exploring all the children’s activities that were available. The highlight was easily the Home Depot area where everyone was welcome to paint a flowerpot and once dry a flower was added to it, all completely free of charge. The kids area also featured a variety of games and a prize was awarded after playing them all.
My four-​year-​old had so much fun painting the flower-​pot, that we ended up going back again on Sunday so that he could paint another. And the timing couldn’t have been better with mother’s day just around the corner.

This was a good time. Here’s what we did. We spent some time walking through the vendors which was AOK but I could have done without every other one of them asking me to give them my personal information for some contest.
However, that was the only annoyance. Our main goal was food. We ate lots of food. I didn’t count but would guess that there were about 15 places to grab some authentic and not so authentic food and for the most part both categories were pretty damn tasty.
While we ate the main stage was a barrage of pretty good music — ranging from a nice brass band to a Cincinnati Idol competition where girls sang (better than expected) and another group that did some great traditional dancing. I’m not even sure if this next bit is a criticism or not but a little English thrown in for this Anglo would have helped me appreciate what was going on a bit more but I figured this was there party so habla Espanol, babe. Plus the Spanish seem to only add some extra spice to the food.
We’ve been meaning to hit this festival for some time and were happy we finally did and will be back next year.