Zoolights

So every year I hear about how GREAT Zoolights is. What is it you ask, well its exactly what you THINK it is, ZOO all LIT up. Hehe. I will tell you exactly what the sign says "over 2.5 MILLION lights". It was pretty cool, they have hanging monkey, some lit up elephants, we saw baby otters and well, all around although it was...

A: Quite a hike from parking to the ZOO
B: Cold and Dark
C: Interesting with 5 kids and 6 adults

It was ALSO really fun. We had some time to reconnect as grown ups while still entertaining the kids and although of course, like any outing at a PUBLIC entertainment place, we spent WAY to much money. I don't even want to go over those numbers, but lets just say we had to buy THREE little light up toy things, and I am sure you all know any ZOO or Amusement Park is all the equivalent of Disneyland prices when it comes to souvenirs. Either way, the money was worth it after all as Matt said "it's only money".

Ugh this is soo true. So often we get caught up in the price of things or how it SUCKS to spend money but in the end, it is ONLY money and we work hard to keep our fams happy so if spending an extra few bucks on a simple glow stick that will inevitably break and end up in the garbage is what makes the kids smile then so be it. Our kids aren't spoiled, they don't get ALL the finest things so it's nice to see that the LITTLE things are still good enough. PHEW!

Well here are a few pics from that night...INCLUDING the TWO group pics that we bought (yes we are those tourist types!)

NOW keep in mind, there are ELEVEN people in these pics! That is 5 kids (under the age of 10) and 6 grown ups and in BOTH pics we managed to get EVERYONE to look! I know. GASP. What an occasion, it must be christmas time...the time when MIRACLES DO HAPPEN! Hehe.

GROUP PIC: Hernandez Clan (you know all of us), Troj Family (Matt, Ashley and Xander) and the Landers Crew (Alison, Dave and Jack...Neya's Husband)

Then we saw this nifty sleigh thing in the middle of the zoo where they were taking pics so we decided on a MOMMY and BABY pic. This was a harder challenge than we thought it would be but we did manage to STILL get everyone to look. Yay us!


I have other pics on the camera but SOMEHOW I managed to leave that at home. Yes I know we all thought it was an extra appendage but apparently even a mommy has an off day. Please excuse me for my sheer moment of dillusion where I thought I could LIVE without my camera for an entire day ;)