Cincinnati Zoo
W hile we were in Ohio with our two oldest grandchildren back in June, there were a few places that we really wanted to visit. One of these places was the Cincinnati Zoo. We don't have any zoos in Vermont so visiting a zoo was one of our priorities since there is an outstanding zoo in Cincinnati. Amtrak would drop us off in Cincinnati and this is the city from which we would depart too so we spent a few days in Cincinnati before getting back on the train to head home. This would allow us some time to visit a few places in Cincinnati before we had to depart on the train. As I mentioned in previous blog entries, the weather was brutally hot and humid throughout this entire trip. Our clothes were perpetually soaked in sweat. The humidity was in the 90's with thunderstorms almost every afternoon and the temperatures were hovering in the triple digits during the day and around 90° at night. Still, we were determined to do some outdoor activitie...