We go every year no matter how cold. This year we had fantastic weather - it was warm during the day and mild at night. We got there at 4 pm and basically just walked in. When we left the lines to get in were easily 50-60 people long.
While we were looking at the tiger, Jordan and Jarred went off to the next building and we all got a bit of a fright because we couldn't find them. Then later on when it was dark, we went to see the carousel. Cullen wandered off and we couldn't find him for a few minutes. I was frantic because it was so dark and there were so many people. I was nearly in tears when Cheryl came walking to me with him in her arms. He'd wandered off from the area and had stood by a trash can when he realized he was alone - something we told him to do. There were about 4 women around him asking, "where is your mommy?". Warren had sprinted to the entrance of the zoo in case someone had picked Cullen up and decided to take him home. Thankfully he wasn't far but by then I'd had enough of 'missing kids'.
The rest of the night was very pleasant and Jarred couldn't resist buying the cutest giraffe from the zoo gift store before we left.