New Year's Eve

For New Year's Eve this year, we decided to go see the lights at Brookfield Zoo. We got there in the middle of the afternoon and only stayed for two hours - just until it got completely dark. There were lights everywhere and Gavin loved it!

He also loves the "Swamp" exhibit. He wanted to go through it twice. Gavin made sure we all looked at the two crocodiles and he loved watching the river otter play, below:




He loved pushing the buttons on this display. There are different color patterns that light up to show the path of certain migrating birds. The buttons were more interesting than the migrations, of course:




Next we saw what Gavin referred to as the "scarlet macaws." The zoo calls them "green-winged macaws." (There is more red color on their bodies than green, but who am I?) Gavin got his terminology from a "Diego" episode in which Diego has to rescue and help a mother scarlet macaw. We didn't bother trying to explain the difference to him!

We must have been in that room for half an hour. Gavin LOVED it!

By this time, some of the building were closing. We went to the "Feathers and Scales" building, which has road runners and other small desert birds, lizards and frogs. Gavin loved the tiny, poisonous blue, green and yellow frogs.

He also loved sending coins into the big yellow funnel, below:

We had fun and got out of there before it got too cold (and before the huge crowds arrived). It was a good amount of time to be at the zoo in winter!