Wild romance: ZooLights offers the initial date night

December 13, 2012 by admin
Filed under Lingerie Events

Megan Cloherty, wtop.com

WASHINGTON – In a city with copiousness to do, people are flocking to a National
Zoo’s holiday show, ZooLights. But this year, a zoo is catering to couples by
offering a initial ZooLights date night.

The routinely giveaway eventuality becomes a couples eventuality from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.,
Friday, Dec. 14. However, families and singular visitors are still welcome.

When couples arrive, they will be met with a potion of champagne and chocolate. If
they’re feeling festive, they can stand into a hulk sleet creation for a holiday
photo op.

“The zoo is one of a best places in D.C. for a date,” says Dan Pierron, special
events manager during a zoo.

“The zoo is unequivocally special during night. Many people come to a zoo for dates during
the day, though during Date Night they will have disdainful opening to a invertebrate
exhibit, home of a cuttle fish,” he says. (It’s conspicuous cuddle fish.)

In fact, a Invertebrate House will be a must-see captivate during a eventuality as
zoo workers explain a courtship and tact behaviors of some of a zoo’s
residents.

But those looking for some-more intrigue than an vaunt can offer, will have other
options. Couples can also use special night-of coupons, redeemable via the
zoo during opposite benefaction stands for prohibited chocolate and snacks for a one-night
event.

The zoo also will offers alcoholic options so visitors of celebration age can spike their cider,
egg nog, cocoa or whichever holiday libation they choose.

Pierron expects a prominence for many couples will be zoo tubing, a new
snowless tubing slip nearby a zoo’s opening on Lion/Tiger Hill. Riders lay in a
snow tube and zip down a high hill’s 150-foot slide, bouncing into a slide’s
bumpers on a approach down.

While a routinely renouned animals slumber, visitors have a singular possibility to see the
zoo’s nightly animals adult and active. Zoo officials advise interlude by a Small
Mammal House to see a languor relocating around, a Great Ape House to see the
primates ready for bed and a Reptile Discovery Center.

“The invertebrate residence is positively illusory during ZooLights — A lot of a reptiles
are active during eve during night, so when we go in there, they’re moving, active, and
eating that is unequivocally fun,” says Brandie Smith, comparison curator of mammals.

While VIP parking is partial of a date night package, a zoo suggests a eco-
friendly choice of holding Metro.

Tickets to Date
Night are $50 a integrate for Friends of a National Zoo and $60 a span for non-
members. Even if you’ve been to ZooLights in years past, Pierron says it is
constantly changing. For starters, there are 20,000 some-more LED lights illuminating
the zoo this year than last.

“If we come this year, you’re going to see a opposite event,” Pierron says. “The
lights are already relocating around. We’ve got new song for a dancing trees. It
gets brighter and brighter each year.”

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