Nikki and I had booked weekend trip to Cleveland to see Jimmy Carr at Connor Palace located within the Playhouse Square district. We had originally planned on going up Saturday morning and riding the Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad and see the start of the fall colors in Cuyahoga Valley National Park. We were also going to meet a coworker of min, Patrick Jones, for lunch before heading from the Akron area to Cleveland to check in for our hotel and get ready for the show. Unfortunately our golden retriever had gotten sick and we planned on leaving her with Nikki’s brother and his family for the weekend. We ended up cancelling th efirst part of our trip which was disappointing, but Saturday morning, Zoey was back to normal and no longer having digestive issues. We confirmed she was doing much better and instead of loosing money on the hotel and show tickets we rushed around, dropped her off at Guy and Patties, and headed up to Cleveland.
We checked into our hotel and had to find a place close by that we could have dinner. We chose the Hofbraaus in Cleveland whcih was walking distance from the hotel and show venue. We were not thinking about it, but they were celebrating Oktoberfest and were packed. They got us in fairly quickly though and the service was so fast that we actually had time to spare to make it to the show.
Jimmy Carr was great and we enjoyed his comedy show and his quick intelligent banter with crowd work. There was someone who sat in front of us that kept trying to get him to answer a question and then would not let him answer the question, he kept roasting her for about 20 minutes. His show was a over two hours and he didn’t even have a warm up comic. After the show we walked less than a block to our hotel and called it a night. The location of everything was very convenient.
The next morning we took Patrick’s suggestion and visited the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and spent just over 3 hours there. We recommend the museum and if you visit be sure to walk outside along the elevated boardwalk to see the animals they have outside. They had a pair of wolves that every time an emergency vehicle went by they would sing along with the sirens. And it happened about every 10 minutes we were outside with them. Thank’s Patrick for the wonderful suggestion! We are planning on visiting Cleveland again and seeing more of the sights up there.
