The Official Start of Christmas Season

On a cold and windy Saturday night, we bundled up and headed out to the zoo for our annual Wildlights night. It isn't officially Christmas until we see the 3 million(!!!) lights that are put up all around the park. The workers usually start putting up the displays in October, since there are so many of them to put up!

We along with hundreds of other families braved the cold and wind, and oohed and aahed at the displays. We got to see Santa's reindeer, but they were hiding in the corner and wouldn't cooperate for a picture. We also tried to see Santa, but the line was waaay too long and it was getting a little late for Miss Maggie. So instead, we headed over to the miniature train display. It was double the size of last year's display, and so cool! They actually have stations around the display that let the kids control the train whistles, lights and even let smoke out of the chimneys.