Troubadourable folk buddies Simon and Garfunkel once sang that "it's all happening at the zoo," before retiring from music to live out their days serenely basking in the reptile habitat. Get happening with today's Groupon: for $30, you get a family four-pack admission to the Azoosment Park at Santa's Village in Dundee (a $66 value).

Adding to the decades of family memories created at long-time Chicagoland attraction Santa's Village, AZoosment Park reinvigorates childish spirits with its menagerie of animals and rides spread over a 6-acre fusion of zoo and amusement park. Pintsize patrons can live out fantasies of being a cowboy or centaur during the all-you-can-ride pony rides or hone zoological skills at the exotic-animal farmyard, free-flight aviary, and other animal attractions. Adventurous adolescents can spin through the atmosphere riding on the mini aircraft of the Star Jets ride, practice for driving tests on the Midge O Racers, and physically push their guardians onto the Dragon Coaster or into a live magic show. Fans of the namesake park of yesteryear can also bond with their bairns by speeding down the original 1959 slide that stood as the oldest ride at Santa's Village, or share a spin in the 1960 Candy Cane Sleigh.

Today's deal extends an afternoon of jollity for up to four guests, and although the attractions are aimed at children age 2–12, adults can also bring along their jejune neighbors or a 16-year-old boss. Children 2 and younger are admitted free.