Zoo festival of Lights 2010

After temps in the 70s last week, 3.5 inches of rain in the last 2 days, we woke up to snow this morning.  Yep- the weather here is just lovely.  That was sarcasm.  I prefer warmer weather, but what I really want right now is for the weather to decide to be either warm weather or be winter weather- the back and forth is wrecking havoc with Bug's allergies and my sinuses.

 I took Bug to the park today- he wanted to know why there was no one else at the park.  The fact that it was barely above freezing might have a little to do with the fact that we were the only ones in park.  The fact that today is a huge shopping day in the US might also have something to do with it.  Bug lots interest in the park as soon as we discovered the slides were covered with ice.

 A spontaneous decision to head down to the zoo made for a great evening.  We did have to go home and put on more appropriate clothing to be out for 3 hours in the cold.  We both were very toasty while walking around.  we picked up Mam and headed out.

 The owl was very pretty

 The tigers were busy wrestling with each other.

Bug continues to grow.

We saw the 3 new manatees.  The little one is sooooo cute- according to Bug.

We rode the carousel

we saw Mrs. Frosty

Bug talked to Blizzard and Snowflake

We rode the train

And after 3 tries ended up with this picture

 We saw Big Boy

 We waited in line to see.......

 THE BIG MAN himself.  Bug sat there no problem and happily told him that he wants a bike for Christmas. The zoo took professional pictures of Bug and wanted to sell them to us for $25.00 for 2 or $35.00 for 4.  They lost a sale- that is way too much for me to spend on pictures.

 But I like this one that I took even more.

We saw the reindeer.

 We saw Big Boy again

 We had a good time

 Cap off by some rhino riding.

We had a wonderful time.  I realized that since Bug comes home at 3:15 each day, and I usually done working by 4:30 pm, we can get down to the zoo by 5 pm during the holiday season and see the lights a few more times. School schedule is a great thing, because I do not have to drive over to pick him up from Auntie Lulu's house and then figure out if we have time to get anywhere before Bug tells me he is too hungry to do anything.  I can feed Bug a larger snack after school and then have him get ready to go while I finish up work.  LOVE IT!!!1

Love and hugs,

Deb