Dane and I went to the Akron Zoo on the 24th.  We haven’t been there since early this spring.  I had said I wasn’t going back until the expansion was complete so today was the day.  The expansion has been open for over a week and it was a unseasonably cool day, perfect!  Maybe not.  We arrived and the parking lot was full.  The zoo employee at the gate gave us a map and explained that they were parking incoming cars an overflow...

Friday night we attended the The Mythic Creatures:  Dragons, Unicorns & Mythic Creatures Exhibit at the Cleveland Natural History Museum.  This is a traveling exhibit and it has been at museums from New York, Atlanta to Sydney, Australia.  We have been waiting for the exhibit to come to Cleveland and it is now here until July. Joe Leonard has a few pieces in the exhibit.   Joe Leonard is a good friend and is an extraordinary wood...

Brandon’s work Holiday party was held Saturday at Cleveland Browns Stadium.           Each year the holiday party is held at a different interesting venue.  When we arrived we had valet parking which was great considering I have never been to the stadium and had no idea where we were going!  I underestimated the amount of time it would take to get downtown so we were early and waited outside at the gate. ...

Brandon won tickets at work to an event that combines two things I  love, the zoo and baseball.  This year’s Cleveland Indians season ticket holder player meet and greet was held at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo.  We attended a meet and greet at the stadium about 5 years ago and we had a great time so we were really looking forward to going to this event. We haven’t been to the zoo yet this season.  They have just opened the...

Brandon had a vacation day today so we took off to the  Hartville Flea Market.  The weather was supposed to clear up  but it sprinkled the whole time we were there.  There weren’t too many vendors there and the ones that were there were very busy covering and uncovering their items.  We did manage to score a couple good buy there. First, I bought this Star Wars Naboo StarFighter for Dane….. It is die cast and I can’t go...

A couple of months ago while planning our trip to Disney, I found a post about the artists they have that create silhouettes.  You can read about them and view the video about them on  Disney Parks Blog. I decided that was definitely something I wanted to have done when we went.  They have a few locations around Magic Kingdom, one on Main Street and one  by the castle on the way to Liberty Square… We had our son’s silhouette...