Electric Safari

It was another jam-packed weekend with the final set of kids arriving!!  We actually met Jaime, Rayna and Kylan (Brad was in Georgia hunting) at Captain D's for some fish in Co. Springs and then headed to the Electric Safari which was at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo!!

 

We had went years and years ago and loved it back then - believe me, we love it even more now!!

 

The place was packed and we put on our hats, scarves and gloves - and SOME put on snow pants and long underwear (alas, not me and I was COLD!!!) and we headed into the zoo!!

There are over a million lights decorating parts of the zoo - the paths were marked of the places that were open with lots of lights to light the way!!  The first stop was the giraffes and we fed them lettuce - the kids thought it was pretty gross as the giraffes kept drooling!!

There's a new elephant pavilion going up and it's almost done - it will be awesome once it's completed and we could easily see the set-up and what it's going to look like - I can't wait to go back in the summer when it's complete!!

There were lights like the one below all over the zoo - it was SO much fun to just walk around - and luckily they had campfires going throughout the zoo so you could stop and get warm if you got cold - that would be me!!!!

Our favorite bear where we always take a photo!!

We even got to see the moose - not only this lit up one but the real one - he was just sitting there close to the fence enjoying all the people!!

Rayna and Papa pretended to mimic the boxing kangaroos!!!

Our final stop was to ride the tram!!!  There was no line and we crawled right on - oh my gosh it was cold riding to the top!!  But it was worth it to see Colorado Springs all lit up!!  It was a quick stop not only because it was so cold but because they announced on our way up that the zoo was closing in 1/2 hour!!!  So we were the last ones off the tram and the parking lot was pretty empty by the time we left - oh well, we missed the traffic anyway!!

After a stop at Starbucks for some hot chocolate for the kids and a peppermint mocha for us, we headed back to the house and enjoyed the rest of the evening with some yummy chocolate caramel turtle cream pie - delicious!!!!  To Be Cont'd.............