Family Pictures: Zoo Lights with Auntie Laura

The day after Christmas, Laura, Steve, Carter and I went down to the Lincoln Park Zoo Zoolights festival. It was so WARM outside and we had such a nice time. There were so many lights, the zoo was gorgeous and a number of the exhibits were open so Carter got to see some real animals too.

For some reason, ever since I was a little girl, I always associated gorillas with my Dad. It was a huge joke within my whole family. Whenever I was going to the zoo as a kid, I would always be telling people that I was going to see my Dad there. When I got there and raced to see the gorillas, I would tell the people around me that they look JUST like my Daddy at home. I thought the big, macho, strong gorillas were just like my dad. See what drinking while pregnant can do to your kids, Mama D.????

We all thought that it was HIGHLY APPROPRIATE for Carter to take some pics with the gorillas just to let Grampa Drnek know we were thinking of him. Here is Laura, Carter and I hamming it up with some...