Making Lemonade

I have been investing alot of time lately into the albums I am choosing to offer to my clients, and recently I decided to add Leather Craftsmen to my list. Today Rob and I used our last vacation day to attend a new client orientation/album design seminar at their Long Island location....So we woke up at 4am and hit the road...We drove 5 hours through torrential rains only to find that when we hit the Throgsneck Bridge, it was closed due to flooding...CLOSED! So, we flipped over to the AM stations to find an alternate route and learned that the LIE was a parking lot and people were abandoning their cars on the Meadowbook Expressway...all roads we needed to take...so what did we do, turned the car around, got off at the next exit, and spent the day at the Bronx Zoo!!! It stopped raining 20 minutes after we got there and although alot of the zoo was closed so they could clean up from the rains, this too was a blessing...the place was empty...it was like we had it all to ourselves...we saw monkey's, bears, giraffe's, lions, tigers, etc...all in all, although we got up at 4am and drove 6 hours through a hurricane to have our plans washed out, our last vacation day turned out to be the best one we've had since our honeymoon (short of an African Safari, trek in Nepal or visit to Patagonia, nothing on my travel wish list could beat our trip to Costa Rica and stay at the Paquare Lodge)...so, the next time you get lemons...see what you can do to make lemonade!

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sorry, no pic's...I was afraid to bring my camera out in the rain...then it stopped, figures.