January 28, 2007: They WEREN'T Hallucinating...

There was a story on the CNN newswire today about a “Guide Horse for the Blind” with the photo above. Actually, I’m surprised that it’s just now getting picked up, because we met one of these horses in Los Angeles last year--it was staying at the Courtyard Embassy Suites with us.

But we (Susan and I) didn’t believe it at first, because the only ones who had seen it were Bill, Jürgen and Dirk, who had stayed up late drinking in the bar. We’d gone to bed--we had to compete in the morning. So, the next day at breakfast, when the guys tried to tell us that they’d shared the elevator with a horse on their way up to bed, we’d nodded our heads knowingly and said, “Yeah, sure. Sure you did, boys. And just how many drinks did you have after we left? And, by any chance, were there pink elephants, too?”

We teased them for days, right up until we saw the blind woman and her horse checking out in the hotel lobby. Can’t say much for eating crow. Kinda rubbery.