Wild Lights

Friday night we were exhausted when we got home. But I had purchased tickets for the Wild Lights at the zoo in Milwaukee in November, so I was not going to take the financial loss and not go. We sullenly prepared and ate dinner and got into the car and grumped our way to Milwaukee. 

Then we got there! We got there at eight (by the time we got home, walked the dog, made and ate dinner, it was 7) and they were only open until 9, but the crucial piece is that most of the children had already left and there were just a handful of other adults there.

At one point, there was this really obnoxious guy sitting with a woman on a bench and he was blathering about music and the woman's eyes were huge and maybe this was a first date? I don't know. I was glad I wasn't her, though.

ANYWAY.

The lights were great. 

The weather was about as good as we could hope for in December.

There weren't a ton of people there, which is a definite bonus for the likes of us.

If you're wondering, there weren't a ton of animals to be seen. Most of them were in bed. The big cat building was open and we went inside and immediately regretted it because it's So Sad to see tigers in tiny enclosures and the poor serval was doing some stress pacing and overall I am not a girl who likes a zoo. I like that they rescue injured animals who wouldn't survive in the wild and they do lots of good things for education and conservations, but most zoos, particularly urban zoos, don't have the required space to give these animals the life they deserve. 

By the end of the loop around the zoo, we were no longer grumpy, we were telling jokes and goofing off and singing along with the Christmas songs in the car. 

This next week is going to be insane with things we both want to do and things we have to do. But the lesson in Friday's experience is that we just have to do it. 

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How does your week look? Do you have things on the calendar every evening, too?