Festival of Lights is one of our annual holiday traditions each holiday season at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden.
There is something for the whole family to enjoy as the zoo is transformed into a winter wonderland. Each year there are new displays to see, holiday lights, Christmas music, and zoo animal shaped lanterns that guests look forward to each year.
I’m sharing ways for you to save money on your next visit Festival of Lights at the Cincinnati Zoo.
…The Cincinnati Zoo has added a new aerial adventure course that is fun for both adults and kids.
I’m sharing tips for how to make the most of your time on Kanga Klimb.
Looking for ideas for New Year’s Eve that are family-friendly?
I’m sharing the BEST NYE options for families around Cincinnati.
…Spring is such a beautiful time in Cincinnati. You’ll find that the trees and flowers are in different stages of blooming from late March- throughout the month of May.
I’m sharing some of my favorite places to take pictures of flowers in the spring that you will want to add to your list.
…Just because the weather is colder during the winter months doesn’t mean that you won’t find plenty to do at the Cincinnati Zoo.
I’ve been fortunate to experience lots of incredible animal adventures in the Midwest. I’m sharing a few of my favorites that are perfect for animal lovers.
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I LOVE to experience unique overnights.
Overnight in a Treehouse. Check. Museum. Check. Submarine. Check. Aquarium. Check. Tepee. Check. Kings Island Amusement Park. Check.
…..so when I found out that the Cincinnati Zoo offered family overnights where you can sleep in African Safari style tents near the giraffe area, I had to check it out!
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As we were exiting the zoo entrance we watched our kids climb all over the rhino statues. My friend and I joked that why should kids be the only ones who get their pictures taken on the statues. We paused for a second and then decided why not?
Recently my friends and I decided to bring our combined 10 kids to the zoo.
All of our kids are crazy together so we felt we would have no problems fitting in at the zoo.
“Don’t climb on that “”Don’t jump off of that” “Where is —–?””Don’t touch that” “Did he just eat that off the ground””——— smile for the picture” “Don’t pick the flowers!” were all common phrases during our zoo adventure.
Our kids were involved in a brief rumble on the playground, one was briefly lost in the zoo toy store and one was caught petting a peacock.
The tulips were absolutely gorgeous and I wanted to get a picture of the boys and I together with them in the background before we left. So I asked our friend who was the photographer to take the pics on my camera phone while our other two friends “watched” her three kids.
Meantime, while we were waiting for random strangers to get out of our background shot, her son was wondering closer and closer to the peacock eventually touching it.
Our friends who were watching the incident unfold kept on asking, “Whose kids is that?” and then were mortified by the answer “that’s Jack!!!!” Yep, the youngest boy in the bunch was our very own Dr. Doolittle.
No children or peacocks were harmed in the incident but a few tulips were uprooted due to little boys who like to give flowers to their mamas.
So as we exited the zoo we had our own MOMS GONE WILD experience as we helped hoist each other up onto the rhino statue. That was a funny site in itself. We even had a 5-month pregnant mom onboard. We created quite a spectacle as a crowd of people with children began watching this unfold. A few spectators even said this looks like moms gone wild.
We got the pictures we wanted together and thankfully the rhino didn’t gave in under our weight and no one’s zoo passes were revoked.
Want to change up your play dates? Check out your local zoo for an adventure https://www.localzoo.net/ or https://cincinnatizoo.org/
