On Friday night before Christmas we piled in our friends minivan (there were 4 adults and 7 children) and drove around looking for Christmas lights. Notice I said "for" not "at". Living in a country that does not celebrate Christmas, makes for very few Christmas lights.
Our first stop was a hotel that had some lights outside and a big Christmas tree inside. We got out, let the kids run around like crazy look at the lights and took some pictures. We then all piled back in the van and set off. After a bit of traffic the littles got hungry so we decided to head to Tony Romas (YUMMO) for a special dinner.
After dinner we walked out the back door into a Christmas Parade! It was so fun!
There was fake snow, people dressed up as presents, trees, cows, and santa handing out candy canes (which we can't buy here, so our kids were stocking up!). What? Your Christmas parade didn't have cows? That's weird.
They had a winter wonderland set-up and the kids loved it! They had a stage where the kids watched a magic show, and then a lady wearing a mrs.clause outfit that could have had more material walked up on stage. with a chair. then the music started. and then they dancing started. mrs. clause and the chair. we were scrambling to pull the kids away from the front row seat they had for the magic show. After several--"what is she doing?" and "why is she dancing like that?" comments, we quickly distracted the kids with more candy canes. And thankfully, it hasn't been brought up again! Things here are always full of surprises!!
It was such a fun night and the kids asked if we could do it every year!!!
2 comments:
Awesome!!! I can't stop laughing about the dancing Mrs Claus!
Funny, I didn't even think twice about the cows at the Christmas parade. I think we go to Chick-fil-a so much, that random people dressed up as cows is "normal"!!!!!
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