The line of cars to get in was outrageous, the parking lots were packed, cars lined the side streets, but the Doctors, through force of will and abject terror at the anguish of canceling a much-promised and much-hyped adventure, elbowed their way into Zoo Lights again this year. And it turned out to be everything they hoped: Carmela was dazzled by the lights and just loved it. She paused at the overlook, gazed at all the shining lights below, and then literally squealed and ran around and around, grabbing Mama and Daddy's hands to pull them down the pathway. The shark tank happened to be open, so we ducked in to see the big, shadowy sharks gliding through the water. Then back into the outside to see more lights — we saw the trippy blinking lights (that seem to have been absent the past two years), our favorite animals, and the Pink Tree. It gets bigger every year.
We walked a sleepy Carmela up to the car and changed her into her jammies on the side of the road (we were one of the cars lined up streetside), and then she fell fast asleep as we headed off down the road toward home.
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