Happy New Year to all from our little corner of the world to yours! May 2007 be filld with good health, peace and all the happiness your hearts can hold! Last night me and Paige and Megan upheld our tradition of spending New Years Eve at the Columbus zoo. Mike said he did not feel like being a duck and walking in the rain so we left him at home to party with the pups. We were only out for 2 hours but it was long enough to take in all of the magical lights (nearly all). We just went up to the N.America area, then down to the new Asia Quest part of it just opened in November. We had fun watching some monkeys at a new indoor area. When we came out of Asia Quest about an hour into being at the zoo the rain and wind started. We were prepared...had our raincoats, boots and hats and a couple of umbrellas. On our walk over to Discovery Reef (the indoor coral reef) our umbrellas did the whoosh inside out trick a few times....that is always funnier when it is happening to someone else. But we laughed anyways. We watched the diver feed the fish and then went across the way to see the Manatees. The Manatees are not into staying up late and were already sleeping in a Manatte dog pile. We ended our outing with a ride on the carasol and then marched back to the parking lot. We did stop at the ice skating rink to see how the ice looked and find out the hours. I think we will go over for a skate later today. The rink does not open until 4 p.m. so that will be something fun to do. We are also taking down the Christmas tree...we need our coffee table back. HAPPY 1-01-07 TO ALL!