Everyone look this way! (Take two---aka, The Zoo)

"Okay! What a lovely day to go to the zoo! Let's roll." That's what we said to each other two weekends ago. We packed the car and head to Akron. Why Akron?Because Laylah is highly upset that Cleveland Zoo does not have any of her favorite animals, penguins. All was going well. We drove following the directions perfectly, UNTIL, Rey says hey lets make a change of plans, instead of following the directions, let's get off at this exit because it has a zoo sign. We get off at the exit drive through a less than attractive group of neighborhoods, turn at a sign that was nearly hidden by overgrowth of a tree, go through two detour signs, and fear that we have missed the zoo. In boredom we comment on the houses, when suddenly we come upon a very nice new complex (after passing very poor rundown housing for 15 minutes) I point out to Rey the number of houses in the complex with porch chairs and signs of happy dwellers. Long story short another 14 minutes later and a stop at a gas station for directions which send us in a square formation right back to the new housing development reveals that the zoo was in a hidden drive across from the development. It was my fault this time. Moral of the story---Everybody look on your own side of the car. Lol!

Everyone look this way! (Prelude)

Okay---Our family is know for being on the move! If it has an address we will find it, or not! In order to fully appreciate the story to follow, we must backtrack to the year 2001. It was the fall of 2001, the Dennis family was still residing in Atlanta, Georgia. My mom came down from Cleveland for a visit and we then decided to make a quick trip to Tennessee to check on the grave of her mother, my grandmother. As we drove the winding country road of the battlecreek area, Rey says to my mother, "Didn't you say it's in the battlecreek area? We must be getting close. Look at that cute little church on the left. It's named, "Battlecreek church!" Oh course, we all three look to the left. Fifteen minutes later with no sign of the graveyard or human lifeform, my mother begs Rey to turn the car around and back track. What could have happened? Bingo! Rey made us all look out the left side of the car at precisely the moment that we passed the graves on the right. Gotta love him!