The Most Wonder-ful Time of the Year

In the week or so before Christmas we made two trips to the Zoo/Wonder Museum, one for the Wonder Museum’s new display and one for the Christmas lights and laser show.
 

Is that my big girl?










Or is that my little boy?



 

Hooray!  They brought the ball ramps back!  (This wasn’t the new display.  The new section is flight-themed and while it was lots of fun, it didn’t make for particularly good pictures.)

Physics lessons galore.

Logan the red-nosed reindeer and Naomi the puppet master.
Stack and crash.
It’s fun to see Naomi really start to take an interest in all of it.
Merry Christmas from the Wonder Museum!  Now we move outside (and forward in time a few days) to the light show!
Oh, the lights on the trees, I wish you could see . . .
Definitely no “logs on the fire” though.
Looking down on the stage where they did the laser show.  I didn’t even try to take pictures of the show; with those light conditions, Logan on my shoulders and Naomi on my hip, there was no way I was going to get anything other than crazy blurs.  Sometimes it’s better just to step back from the camera and enjoy it anyways.

Jake joined us after the laser show because he dropped us off, then parked the car and rode the bus from the parking lot and it took him quite a while.


It’s Japan.  Of course there’s a Hello Kitty Santa.




    
And this is Christmas island-style.  A hibiscus, a palm tree and a reindeer.





Doesn’t that make you feel merry (again)?