We even saw a Christmas manatee

J and I went to see the zoo lights last night and had a delightful time. Sure, it was only about 18 degrees outside and neither one of us had a hat, thus resulting in some very cold ears, but it was a delightful time. They sell hot chocolate and have fires going in barrels (we felt like hobos!), so they do their best not to have anybody go into hypothermia by the aquarium. The coolest thing was when all the wolves started howling in their pen. That was eerie.

The funniest thing was that in addition to the strings of lights in the trees and fences, the zoo also has lots of displays of lights in the shapes of animals in their zoo. As we were looking at all these displays, J pointed out that many of them weren't really Christmas-y. Like there was a bat, a couple hippos attacking each other, random stuff like that. So J started walking around yelling "Look, it's a Christmas crocodile!" and "It's the Christmas dragonfly!" One time, he said really loud "It's a Christmas spider!" and a woman walking the other way must have heard him, looked down at her toddler and said "Did you see the Christmas spider, honey?" That cracked us up.