Zoo Lights

We visited the Point Defiance evening Zoo Lights tonight.  Eric and I have taken the monkeys for several years now.   Owen was a little hesitant to drive for an hour to see Christmas lights.  Even the promise of listening to the audio book, “Ramona the Brave,”  during the car-ride didn’t convince him.  I was happy when we drove up and he said, “These are beautiful!”

Jack thought the lights were interesting, but was mostly happy because he was bundled up in lots of warm clothes (including SmartWool socks, of course…), his favorite hat, and his special blanket.   The icing on the cake for Jack was that he got to veg in the stroller all evening.  His exercise was tipping his head back to catch the snow/hail that fell on and off while we were there.  Oh, and looking at the camera (can you feel the love??)

After about 15 minutes Owen declared the lights “boring.” 

Mama:  I thought  you thought the lights were beautiful.

Owen:  Oh, they are beautiful.  They are beautiful but they are boring too.

We moved on to hot chocolate.

And a carousel ride.

My favorite part of the night was when Owen agreed to trade horses with Jack.  Owen was on a cool knight themed horse that Jack decided he really liked.  Jack was on a not-so-cool seahorse.  Owen disliked the seahorse and thought it was girly and really did not want to ride on it.  But he saw that Jack really wanted to trade and gave in – simply to please his brother.  Owen is such a great brother!