Central Park child story

My Father and I spent the night in the central park zoo and got to walk around the rain forest at night with flashlights. We had to sleep on a carpeted floor, and I was fine with that being such a young child. My Dad however said it was the worst night sleep he had ever gotten. I can now understand why. I was very young and don’t really remember the flavor of the experience, but the event that I will remember forever is that while we were sleeping the famous blizzard of 1996 was in full affect around us. We awoke that morning inside the zoo with five-feet of unplowed snow layering the entire park. This beat seeing animals at night by a lot. My father and I went home to get my sled and proper clothing and spent the rest of the day having the time of our lives.