The Phoenix Zoo had a "Noon Years Eve" celebration today, complete with sparkling cider at noon. We thought it would be fun. It was crowded and crazy busy!
How do you pretend it's Winter here? You put a bunch of nasty piles of man-made snow in a dusty field of dying grass, encourage thousands of young people to stand shoulder-to-shoulder in crowds on it so that they can say they stood in snow, let them take pictures, and call it good. Oh wait, that's not all. In one of the mounds there was a sign saying they should dig in it for candy like the animals that have to dig in snow for their food. Gross. This picture actually makes it look a lot better than it was. It was the cleanest mound we could find.
