Zoo Lights!

We moved to the Portland area 8 years ago and we have still yet to visit lots of places that are nearby. But one of them we can finally check off the list. Portland Zoo's "Zoolights". I love Christmas, and I love to go look at lights so I turned into a littleboy again and had a great time with my precious girls. They loved Zoo-lights and to see the pure joy and amazement on their faces definitely warmed up my heart on the 40ish degree night (and thankfully...no rain!!!)

We even treated the girls

to the train, every time we go to the zoo they want to ride the train,

but I knew I was saving it for this night.

Apparantly the train line can get quite long, cause we zoomed passed the barriers that they made for the line, and got on very quick. Well it was a fun ride and it showed us quickly what we were about to embark on, which made me even more excited.

After getting off the train we immediately set to find the one place

that was filled with lights, it was beautiful all along the way.

Here's the place we saw, that was amazing. It had animated alligators that opened their mouth, a bird that flew in and catching a fish, and elephants that sprayed colorful water out of their trunks...it was beautiful.

Now while we were in search of this particular spot, Ari kept requesting to go see the lights that looks like a tower. I had no idea what she was talking about, but kept looking up, hoping we find it. She wanted to see it so bad.

Well after nearly two hours of aweing, we knew it was time to go. Little people were, tired, hungry and some didn't wear appropriate shoes. All wereupset and crying, so we headed out, and on our

way out Ari shouted "The Tower!, We found it" I had given up and it was not at all anything I was looking for. Turns out it was the very first thing she saw from the bridge when you first enter in and overlook the park. She just wanted to see it again.

We didn't go to this little adventure alone, we invited some great friends from church

and we were glad to share the memories with them.

If you haven't gone personally to the zoolights, check them out, it was great fun!

Here are some more pictures of our awesome fun!