This year we decided to try something new. I have heard from a few friends of this event and how they liked it a lot. Tickets are pricey so when I heard about an online deal I bought tickets and put it down for one of our countdown to Christmas activities. I was excited for us to go. Well...
Friday, we made the trek to Warm Beach for The Lights of Christmas. It's an event with lots of lights, train rides, pony rides, carolers, Bruce the Spruce (talking Christmas tree) and yummy food you can buy. Sounds fun, right? Well, not for us! It was 27 miles away and took us over an hour- gotta love traffic. It was pretty cold, but not raining so that was good. We lucked out. When we got Chelsea out of the car she started crying. She is normally very good and is quiet so it was weird she was fussy. We waited in a long line to get in and once we did we lost Preston, but I quickly found him crying as he was trying to find us. Then we made it to the nativity (my favorite part of the whole thing b/c it was pretty and had beautiful music playing). We went to the Polar Express Train first and the line was a 50 minute way. What?! We walked to see Bruce the Spruce, but another long line. We looked at the map that didn't make sense to find an ATM b/c we wanted hot cocoa and they only took cash. Preston was crying saying his feet were freezing, Lindsey's hands were cold, Chelsea was still crying, Kate was saying it was the worst day ever and I was cold too. We weren't prepared. It was a disaster from the beginning. Kyle wanted to go home right then and there, but I didn't want to. We had driven all that way so we might as well make the most of it. We finally went back to the train line that was only a 30 minute wait and endured the long line. After the super quick train ride (not worth it) we found hot cocoa in a warm building, got mini donuts and headed home. The lights were pretty, but waiting in long line after long line in freezing temps was not ideal. We would rather get hot cocoa and drive around to look at lights. Now we know. The pictures below show our adventure.
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We went to the Lights of Christmas too. It was raining on us but not SUPER cold, just cold. The worst thing for us is that it took over an hour just to get out of the parking lot when we were ready to go home! We think there must have been an accident or something... Driving around and looking at lights is much easier :)
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