Walking in a Zoo-Light Wonderland!

If you're fortunate enough to live in (or near) the wonderful city of Chicago, you have heard of, or visited the Lincoln Park Zoo.

Every year, around this time, they offer the public the opportunity to visit the zoo at night, when it's lit for the holiday season.

The animals demand (and deserve) a little holiday festivity, just like the rest of us, and they seem to enjoy the colours and the crowds who come to ooh and ahh over them (and the lights).

So we took that opportunity last night to walk the zoo and freeze our gonads off enjoy the lights.  I apologize for the crappy quality of the photos, but those damn point-and-shoot digital cameras have a tough time with night lights.

Hey, whatcha gonna do?

After we'd walked about 43 miles through the frozen tundra.... (allright, allright, it wasn't that far, and it wasn't really that cold)... only to find most of the animals either invisible, sleeping or disinterested, we decided to warm up by walking practically across the street to one of Chicago's more famous restaurants (R.J. Grunts), where the salad bar was first introduced to the public in 1971. 

That's right, the salad bar was invented right here in Chicago, according to "Mr. Grunt", due to his laziness, and getting tired of people complaining about his salad-making skills, so he said "Hey, let's put the refrigerator in the middle of the restaurant and let people make their own salads!"  And the rest, as they say, is history.

It was warming, and good, and there wasn't a "healthy" thing on my plate!  And that's just the way I like it!

Happy Holidays, y'all!