Festival of Lights--Columbus Zoo

December 11th: Well, so much for all of that snow! It was 65 degrees today! It rained some early on and melted most of the snow. It was so warm we decided to hit the Festival of Lights at the zoo...here are the kids in front of their favorite animal at the zoo...the elephant. Baby Boddhi is getting so big! He is one month younger than Katie...we've watched him since he was just a few months old and now he is almost as big as his mom! He was inside behind the glass so we couldn't get any good pictures of him this evening! But here is the lighted elephant...

A picture of Daddy, Drew, and Katie walking toward the pond...the lights are just so beautiful!
Rich was able to take a few pictures with our night mode...but you have to keep the camera extremely still so none of mine turned out, but his did...


We cannot go to the zoo without stopping at the carousel! Katie was disappointed that the real ponies weren't out, but you can only ride them during the warmer months, so she settled for the carousel!

Alex was terrified, absolutely sobbing, that I was going to take her onto the carousel...she wouldn't calm down so I had to take her outside of the building so we shot a little video of the lights...she's so funny, everything is a "mommy animal"!

Every year, they have a really cool, huge model train display. Drew just loves it, of course. Katie thought it was pretty cool this year too!

I tried to get a picture showing the whole train set-up...

Drew is fascinated playing with the controls that make the trains stop and start...

Here's a video of the train that Drew wanted me to take so he can watch it whenever...the Trans-Siberian orchestra is just for you, dad!

And the last picture of the night...Katie got tuckered out and I foolishly didn't bring the double stroller! She was not happy about having to walk all the way out of the zoo, but somehow we managed...but she is showing her extreme unhappiness in this picture.