Zoo Lights!!!

On Tuesday, the kids and I piled into my parents van and headed up to Portland with the Dacars to go see the zoo lights.  We had a blast with our good friends.  The lights were absolutely beautiful.  Unfortunately, Pancho was working in LA but he got lots of phone calls and texts from us that night due to an incident that he missed at the zoo (and he would have LOVED!)  keep reading . . .

The kids and I in front of the gingerbread house.

The Dacars looking a little bit cold in their family photo

The lights were so pretty!

Ellie, Max, Lucy and Sam

Lucy was all bundled up for the cold weather

My three cuties  . . . I love them

The whole crowd on the train ride.

It was so much fun to ride through the zoo looking at the lights.

OK, so the whole evening was going so well until "the incident".  The kids were so enthralled with this monkey that was sitting right in front of our kids, entertaining them.  I was taking pictures and thinking, "this is so cute".  Then the monkey started doing something that wasn't so cute.  When Sam told the story at our Christmas Eve dinner, he said "The Monkey took out his weiner and started shaking it".  Yes, the monkey competed the whole deed right in front of us (and more!  ask me later).  I was COMPLETELY TRAUMATIZED by this!!!  I am not an animal or nature lover as it is.  The kids were laughing and pointing at the funny monkey and Liz and Doug were in hysterics (at the monkey incident and at my reaction)!  The whole crowd was completely grossed out and trying to shuffle their kids out of there as fast as they could.  Sam has not stopped telling the story as many times as he can at every Christmas event that we go to.  At least it has given us hours of entertainment, jokes and laughing.  We were just so sad tht Pancho missed it, because he would have loved it!

This animal was a little bit safer to pose for the camera with!

The kids

Me and my boys!

Liz and I, best friends since college!