s07e15 - Who Woulda Thunk It?

After my long and harrowing "walkabout" earlier in the piece and after a hearty dinner, it was decided by Naomi that we would attempt to make it all the way across town to the Calgary Zoo to have a look at their winter light show.

It was brought to our attention that the zoo lights close to admission at 8:30pm and would shut down at 9pm. This didn't deter Naomi though and so at 7:45pm, myself, Naomi and Sarah bundled into the car and made a mad dash for the Zoo ... which I'm pretty sure I mentioned, is on the other side of town.

At 8:27pm, while the car was still moving, I was thrown out at the front entrance to the Zoo and told to buy tickets for the three of us and that we'd meet at the gate once the car was parked.

Sweet.

It looked pretty painless, pay a few dollars and go for a 30 minute walk and have a 'bo peep' at the light show which is supposedly outstanding. This was made a little more difficult by the woman at the box office who had to carefully inspect every coin I gave her , this right after she explained that we wouldn't have much time to look around "Oh look at that one ... haven't seen one of those before" .... for the love of God lady, just gimme my damn tickets already!

So with 25 minutes in we went, and I gotta say, that 25 minutes was some of the most fun Ive had on the trip so far. The lights where great and the company was outstanding which together made for a very enjoyable experience.

In hindsight, maybe the messing around on my part could have been toned down a little as I got covered in snow on more than a few occasions and therefore got a little damp, which probably led to the cold I have now (although I'm still going to blame Sarah for it)

Jokingly I made mention that at 9pm the Zoo staff would probably just flick the switch and leave us all in darkness ... which at 9:05pm, they kinda did, leaving us to navigate the Zoo in relative darkness. Which was fine as I the got to see all the animals that Zoo had to offer at 9:15pm which included Goats and Donkeys!