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You know how it is when time plays tricks on you? When you do things – not so long ago- but in retrospect, it seems like forever?<\/p>\n

This trip, like every trip, was like that. Day One was barely ten days ago, but it could be months, for all I know.  It began in Cleveland, where Michael did a tour of the Catholic Marketing Network show<\/a> after dropping us off at the Zoo<\/a>, a place which I wondered if I had been to before, but thought as we went in, "Nah. It just reminds me of the Louisville Zoo, which I know <\/em>I’ve been to." <\/p>\n

It took a while – entering the Wolf Wilderness, to be exact<\/a>   – to finally produce the "Aha" moment in which I realized that I had,indeed, been to this Zoo before (the year we visited Cleveland and ended up in a hot, darkened Byzantine Catholic Church, a hot, darkened Benedictine monastery, and a  hot, hot, HOT  Residence Inn, being, as we found ourselves, smack in ground zero of the great Northeast Blackout of 2003 the very evening it hit.<\/a> ). In my own defense, I think the whole Australian exhibit, to which we turned first, is fairly new, which threw me off.<\/p>\n

Speaking of throwing.<\/p>\n

\"Giraffe_3\"<\/a> This giraffe interested all of us because it was so dark. It interested us so much that by the time I glanced down at Michael, he was sitting on the ground with only one sandal on, and he was working mighty hard on removing that one.<\/p>\n

Luckily, I caught him before he could toss Sandal #2 to follow its mate.<\/p>\n

In the giraffe exhibit. As in…into <\/em>the giraffe exhibit.<\/p>\n

Very nice, patient keepers there at the Cleveland Zoo. I’m thinking, though, that if had been the lions, we might just have been out of luck.<\/p>\n

\"Camel_2\"<\/a> So, camels were ridden, sandals were thrown. A decent few hours spent.<\/p>\n

And then onward to Niagara, which we reached around 8, I think. Not our first visit, but you know, it was on the way, we have hotel points to burn, so why not just stay in Niagara Falls? Nice view, eh?<\/p>\n

I’d still like to visit the place in the winter someday…<\/p>\n

Room with a view:<\/p>\n

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