CuyahogaValleyNationalPark -photo-hike &Dinner-Yeah! pay $1MeetupFee due May 7

Thanks for being the BEST part of Cleveland Eastside Fun — you make these events absolutely Aah maaaa zing!

BUT, and that’s a very big BUTT: sometimes people sign up BUT don’t come, and that makes me hangry!!! It also makes me want to start giving spankings — because then people who are on the waitlist don’t get a chance to come! So everybody loses. We don’t want everybody to lose, do we?! imagine yourself in their place. The worst part of it is, is that I don’t get to see your cutie patootie little face! And the rest of your friends here don’t get to see your cutie little patootie face either! We can’t have that, can we?!

Never fear I have fixed this problem:

So now you owe me a dollar. Yesssss a dollar. For realzzzzzz. And this is not just any dollar —this is a MAGICAL dollar!!! The US mint only makes magical dollars every 72 years, almost like Haley’s Comet!

This $1.00 goes to Meetup and reserves your spot! If I do not see this dollar from you by the deadline (in the title of the posting), then I will very very VERY
reluctantly have to move you to the waitlist and your spot is no longer guaranteed.

The $1.00 is non-refundable to hold your spot. If you can’t attend, please cancel so someone on the waitlist can join. If the one dollar is not paid by the deadline, you will be moved to the waitlist.
The Meetup site is cray cray and so I am inputting my payment methods for the MAGICAL $1 here; thank you for your patience:
PAYPAL: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/YTLQVTEM7KR8Q

VENMO: Please find AlexAndriaCESF

I will manually check in VENMO or PAYPAL to see if you have paid the MAGICAL $1, so do not be alarmed if your status on ‘Meetup’ still shows as ‘unpaid’.
Remember:
This $1.00 is separate from the cost of the activity which goes to the venue. I will always give you a means to pay the venue. Some venues don’t have a cost, but that does not mean you get out of paying Meetup the $1.00.

Capisce!!?
And now a drum roll please. I said drum. roll. Please!

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Let’s take a walk in the woods! And this is just not any woods. This is the Cuyahoga National Park. Yesssss Ohio has its own national park. It ranked right up there with all the other national parks, like Yellowstone and the Grand Tetons! We might not have Old Faithful, but we have other equally as amazing things if not even more amazing right here in our own backyard! 

Bring your cameras / anything with a camera like your phone or your disposable, waterproof camera you used taking pictures of little fishes on your last vacation ‘cuz we are going to enjoy nature in all of its glorious splendor and beauty around us. I am going to give you some photo assignments as we walk along and enjoy the forest and of course enjoy spending time with one another!

This is a day where we can get in touch with Nature! Ahhhh yessss, Mother Nature! What would we do without Her!?!

Stop 1: Boston, Mills visitor center (meeting point ): we will meet here between 2 PM and 230 for a 230 start. This visitor center is absolutely fabulous. I encourage you to look at everything- we’reso lucky that there is actually a national park in our backyard. So check it out!

Then we will get back in our cars and we will drive 8 minutes and go here: 

Stop 2:

Brandywine Falls: 8176 Brandywine Rd, Sagamore Hills, OH 44067.This is the most crowded trail in the entire park with almost 100 stairs to get next to the FALLs ,we are JUST STOPPING here@the viewing platform (5 minutes walk from the parking lot )to view the Falls -believe me you don’t want to miss it! We will be here for approx 20 minutes. For those of us wanting to go via the stairs to check out the Falls a little closer, please do! but we are only staying here for about 20 minutes. And then… 

You will go to the potty. Why will you go to the potty?? because our destination next will have a potty that is not as nice as the potty at Brandywine Falls, and because sometimes that potty is not open. And unless you wanna go p p in your pants or you have astronaut underpants…

So we will get back in our cars and drive 12 minutes to:

Stop 3:

Tree Farm Trail / horseshoe pond trailhead at:

2075 Major Rd, Peninsula, OH 44264
Please use the actual above ADDRESS on your GPS. I repeat use the address on your GPS.

Small parking lot right off Major Road
You’ll see Horseshoe Pond immediately
There’s a sign/kiosk + trail entrance at the edge of the lot
The trail literally starts from the parking area

We will meet at that sign/kiosk /trail entrance.

We will walk the 2.8 mile loop and be here for about 1.5 hours.

After our nature photography jaunt in the woods, we will drive 12 minutes and go out to eatties at:

Stop 4:

Wine Mill: 4964 Akron Cleveland Rd, Peninsula, OH 44264

So wear comfortable clothes, bugspray, comfortable, hiking / walking shoes- nobody gets to fall down on my watch— bring water, sun hat, sun block, lip balm , little snack, snacks if you tend to get a little bit hungry/hangry, and get ready for some fun!!!