Tonight's Elephant Adventure

Every year, I want to see the elephant parade. And, every year, the elephants elude me. You see, each spring, the circus comes to town and the elephants get off the train and walk across town to the Verizon Center. It seems like either the parade is during the day or I hear about it the day after or the elephants are joined by a storm of cats and dogs or something. But, not this year! This year, I heard about it a few hours before the parade. So, I donned my running shoes on this gorgeous evening and headed down to capture my picture to prove I saw the pachyderms. But, when I got down near the beginning of the parade route, I realized that the elephants beat me there. So, I kept running. And, the elephants kept being a few blocks ahead of me. And, I kept running. And those elephants kept truckin'! After a 3-mile run, I did finally catch them.... as they were filing into the Verizon Center. I didn't even get a decent picture!

As Colleen suggested, perhaps the tradition is that I always "almost" get to see the elephants.