The Colorado Adventure

Lights!

A friend in our HS group invited us to her Aunt’s company party at the Denver zoo. The zoo lights aren’t open to the public yet, but there were a lot of people there!

We got there and had some cocoa and cookies, took a few pictures at the North pole and then headed out to look at the lights. Doesn’t it look like fireworks blasting off?

Oh wait, to give you the optimal viewing experience you need to take (hopefully you have a laptop) your computer and head to the kitchen. Turn on some Christmas music. Now, open the freezer and stand really close, maybe even stick you head in. Great! If your freezer is set to about 29 degrees, then you have the same atmosphere we did. Now you can look at the lights!

We got to ride the carousel and thank goodness they had 2 dolphins. Hannah was happy on her caraway (some big bird looking thing) and Grace was happy on her dolphin.

We stopped in to see the elephants/hippo/rhino; yes it stinks, but it’s warm in there. The rhino and hippo were fast asleep, the only time we’ve seen them like that. The elephants were trying to get into a good sleeping position (which appears to be standing up, leaning against the wall.) We passed by the lights near the front that change color and went to the gift shop. Hannah found a Mr. Otter, Grace wasn’t as lucky with whales, she got candy instead.

Of course it started to snow just as we got home, that would have made the lights even better, but it was still a nice, cold night out with the twinkling lights.