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Someone Told Me It's All Happening

Like many New Yorkers, Robin and I aren't in the habit of taking advantage of some of the most amazing places in the world practically right in our backyard. So we're attempting to remedy this little by little, and today we took in the Bronx Zoo (about a 20-minute local bus ride away). Highly recommended - but get there in the morning (around 10:15 AM would be ideal) and do whatever walking you want to first before taking the Zoo Shuttle, which is fun to ride but pretty much just a convenience, you don't see a lot of animals from it (the Bengali Express is much better for animal-spotting, and you get a nice aerial view of flamingos and the occasional baboon from the Skyfari). The food's overpriced but we deemed it better than schlepping about our own. I was very grateful for the otter-headed walking stick that had belonged to Robin's mum, to the point where I'm now considering taking it to comic conventions where I know I'm gonna be doing a lot of walking. And now we're home and little Christian upstairs is being particularly rambunctious, so it's on with the earplugs and out of this room.