Zoo Lights at the Point Defiance Zoo

Sarah and I had made plans to get together at the very end of December to make baby food but then I had already made too much for Padon and Gregory was still not too keen on making the transition away from breast milk and formula so we opted out and Sarah offered up the fantastic idea of going to the Point Defiance Zoo for their annual light show instead. And what a great idea it was.

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We bundled up the babies, grabbed our strollers, and made our way to see just what the zoo had to offer in their spectacular light show.

Padon pretty much started to cry when he hit the cold night air but when we started passing people he became more interested on what was going on around him then how cold his cheeks were and the fact he had socks on his hands.

Greg was awesome and just checked out all that there was to see around him.

Right away the lights were spectacular. It must have taken a serious team of people to weave the lights in and out of the foliage and to create the animated light shows of orangutans swinging through trees, penguins sliding down icy hills, and kangaroo's joeys hopping by.

We tried to take our pictures in front of the lights and while the mass of color, light, and dark made them a little blurry it still made some really nice pictures.

It was really cool that they left some of the exhibits open even though signs said the zoo was closed for the animals. We even accidentally went backward through an exhibit and got to see the animals in a place where strollers weren't allowed.

There were massive sharks and tuna swimming by a huge floor to ceiling glass aquarium and at first Padon was interested in the sharks that were showing their teeth but soon he was mesmerized by the reflection of the water on the sand and he wouldn't look anywhere else. We moved onto other rooms and found the petting zoo was still open to visitors. Rightly so the goats were only interested in the free food you could by by the handful for $.25 and no longer were interested in being pet.

Padon looked down on them much in the same way he looks at Roadie and I thought briefly about taking off his sock so he could pet the goat, but it was obvious to me that the goat had reached his threshold for petting for the day and really didn't want anything more than free hand outs. Knowing from my volunteering days at the Woodland Park Zoo that their heads are like concrete blocks I chose to be a responsible parent and I didn't put my baby eye to eye with the grumpy goat just to pet it.

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It was too bad there wasn't more to see but my bean was over tired and by the time we found the car (yes I lost it) and we got the babies in the car they were hungry and not in the mood for anything other than a bottle and bed. Sarah was great and used her fab mom skills to feed both babies while we made our way back to her house.

It was good times and would be fun to do again. If not just to go to the zoo. I love the zoo.