Zoo Lights

This past Saturday we visited the Lincoln Park Zoo for their annual Zoo Lights.  The lights reminded me a lot of the Fayetteville Square at Christmas, but on a much larger scale.  It was definitely worth the crowds, and it was the perfect time to go, because we had an unseasonably warm day and didn't even need our heavy coats.  The best part by far was the awesome light show.  You can take a peek on the video.


Right before Zoo Lights, we visited the Nature Museum.  Since I had picked up a free pass to the museum from the library earlier in the week, and since the Nature Museum is just a block from the zoo, we figured we might as well kill two birds with one stone.  Jesse especially had fun playing with the water and boats at the museum, in a hands-on exhibit called RiverWorks that explores things like dams and levees and floodplains.  He also loved exploring an area with caves and boats and a tree-house slide, all made especially for kids his age.  I didn't get any pictures of that, because we were busy making sure Jesse didn't get run over by some of the bigger kids.