All Lit Up

The River­banks Zoo in Colum­bia puts up a ton of lights for the Christ­mas sea­son. They boot every­body at five o’clock and then reopen the gates at 6 with a sep­a­rate admis­sion charge. Donna and I did this sev­eral years ago and have mean­ing to go back, but never make it. Tonight our neigh­bors invited us to join them on a trip to there, we agreed. Jim, Ann, daugh­ter Ellen and the kids from across the street, Zack and Tan­ner piled into their big truck while Donna and I fol­lowed in the Miata dinghy. As a bonus, daddy Jim paid our way in and even picked up the din­ner tab at the Cracker Bar­rel after­wards. Thanks, we enjoyed our­selves immensely.

And now for some­thing com­pletely dif­fer­ent — New Voy­ages. Inde­pen­dently pro­duced episodes of Star Trek: The Orig­i­nal Series with new actors play­ing the old famil­iar char­ac­ters. If you are a Trekkie or Trekker, check it out. After you get over the fact that the new Cap­tain Kirk looks more like an Elvis imper­son­ator than William Shat­ner, it is not bad TV.