Electric Safari

This weekend we went to the zoo in Colorado Springs - The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo - to see the Christmas lights there. The night we went the weather was really mild, mid 40s, so we weren't too uncomfortably cold. There was a lot of fun holiday and animal light displays. Very fun. Here we are by the grizzly with a big candy cane.

The zoo is up on the mountain and there is a sky ride (a ski lift really) that goes up and down the mountain. We stopped at the top to look around a little bit. We had a great view of Colorado Springs!

He we are riding the ski lift down again.

We got to see some animals. The giraffes were inside since it was cold. We actually got to feed the giraffes which was fun for the kids. Matthew was worried about the giraffes eating his gloves with their "dirty tongues", but it turned out ok. All the gloves were accounted for afterward.

Anna fed the giraffes too, although she wasn't as enthusiastic about it. It was hard to capture the cracker feeding moment on camera. A lot of my pictures turned out blurry. :( Scott is making sure her gloves don't get eaten.

There were plenty of little displays to climb and play on.
Matthew needed to explore each one.

Here is part of our little group (minus me) in the middle of our adventure. Anna was kind of sleepy.

Here's Matthew by the light up lion. We actually got to see a lot of real lions sitting together in their habitat - maybe trying to keep warm. I didn't get a picture of the real lions though.

Matthew poses on the zebra statue.

I liked this light display - a couple of bears catching fish in a stream. A lot of the light displays moved, which made it extra fun.

And we tried to take another picture looking out over the city, but it didn't turn out so well. Either because we weren't all making the best faces (or looking at the camera) or because it was dark. Santa was at the zoo too, but we didn't see him 'cause there was a long wait. One member of our little group was very disappointed not to see Santa, but we placated him by telling him he might see Santa next week in Oregon. :) We had a lot of fun seeing all the Christmas lights at the zoo and were so happy it wasn't too cold! We're looking forward to going back to the zoo again...maybe in the spring.