Look at me smiling. I should be an actress! It was freezing. It started snowing about an hour before. We parked the car for the city's tree lighting and walked three blocks with the wind blowing snow in our faces. Fun times!
Someone else's photo. My camera was in my pocket as I huddled in a doorway.
Another great photo from someone else on Facebook. The snow did not deter the crowd.
I wanted to see the golf cart parade and the high school choir marching and singing. I believe I took this photo from the doorway of a store.
The choir marched to the gazebo. Not my photo, I am still across the street.
They posed with some celebrities. We were actually standing behind a see-through igloo but we couldn't see through it. It turns out the three wise men were inside for photo opps too.
It really is a great event. Many stores are open with family activities.
Several stores and organizations manned these tables in the streets and made hot cocoa and s'mores. (not my photo) There was cookie decorating at a church. The old rec center was set up for a sensory Santa experience so that all the children could enjoy the event.
You could cage your children in a snow globe. (not my photo) There was a Santa train and giant inflatable slides (that was interesting in the snow) and the sleigh ride. We are just sissies. There was a portable ice skating rink.
Yeah, this was what it was like walking the three blocks to my doorway. (not my photo)
These poor horses. (not my photo) The line for the sleigh ride was very very long because we are very very crazy in my town. There were also long lines at the food truck because we like to season our food with snow.
We lit the tree.
Hundreds and hundreds of people came and I got to meet the big guy! I told him I am nice and he fell for it. Am I really that puffy or is it the 3 layers I have on under my coat?
Wow, what a great time. The snow made it cold but made for great Christmas photos!
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Awesome, awesome photos! I feel like I'm looking at a real life Hallmark holiday movie, loved the horses and the photo at the end with you and one of the best Santa's I've ever seen 😊
ReplyDeleteThe horse in the first photo is giving someone the stink eye! This looks like fun and I think it's all about that puffy coat.
ReplyDeleteOur town does nighttime festivities this Friday. But I think the parade isn’t till Saturday. Loved seeing your seasonal pics and you are definitely nice!
ReplyDeleteAHHH!! The WANT-TO's you've stirred, and the sweet rememberings you've kindled!!! I longed for those snow-covered, ice-stalled, weather-interrupted days all my life in that HOT Mississippi Delta. If we HAD snow, the first flake past the Superintendent's window triggered all the Go-Home bells in our classes, and the buses rolled---nobody we knew had ever had to actually DRIVE in it. And the fall was usually only a couple of inches, onto the Fall's fall of leaves, so our scraped-up handfulls and bowlfuls that built our Snowmen were not that pristing beautiful stuff. OUR snowmen and castles and forts looked like a drab Fifties' prognostication of Cookies'n'Creme.
ReplyDeleteAnd you have Clydesdales!!! Or a fabulous equivalent---one of the most thrilling memories of my life is a February trip to St. Louis for a conference, and one of the tours was of Anheuser-Busch. We Southern ladies stepped out of that tour bus in our conference hotel clothes---stockings and pumps, into a snow-covered landscape that delighted us as much as it froze our feet. Our visit to the stables is as clear to my memory, and as warmly remembered, as any meeting of the GREAT, or happenstance in my recollection I shall never forget the moments and feeling of the great powerful dignity of that mighty, warm creature, towering over me and letting me lean companionably on his shoulder while he took accepted an apple from my palm. I felt as if I'd crowned the ruler of a small country.
And Their commercials still make me cry---I'm tearing up from the Seventies memory, and hope that you have availed yourself of a similar memory seared into your Happy Bank.
Great photos Miss Merry! What a wonderful event... love the pictures of the horses (in the blizzard - ha!) But Brrr-rr!! way to cold for me. You are brave!
ReplyDeleteHa-ha! The puffiness made me laugh. Oh my. Really nice photos whoever took them, but I am a southern gal and definitely not fond of cold weather. It snowed and sleeted all night and morning in Denver where my boys are. Take care and stay warm.
ReplyDeleteLooks like a fun celebration even in the snow:)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photos, and your smile is radiant. Looks like a great time. I love Winter and snow ❄️ and cold 🥶 weather, it's only the ice that makes me feel uncomfortable.
ReplyDeleteThank you 😊 so much for sharing.
Those are all great photos. We had that snow on Friday and Saturday. It was beautiful but it's really cold. Today the wind kicked up. I really do not like the cold and snow at all so I can relate to you huddling in the doorway! :-) I'm hoping it's warmer in London. Last time I was there for a month in January I only wore a sweater the entire time I was there and was plenty warm.
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Miss Merry! What a fun event. I loved the photos of all the things you could do and especially liked the one of you and Santa. He knows you are nice. :) But brrr - it did look so cold!
ReplyDeleteThose horses actually enjoy doing their work and have heavy winter coats to protect them better than we have.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great event. I stayed home because of the snowstorm. Two parades were cancelled because of it. But I enjoyed watching it from the house.
Looks like a wonderful event.
Love the photos. Sounds like a good time was had by all.
ReplyDeleteFun photos! But, I don’t miss the cold weather after living in New York for 5 years!
ReplyDeleteThis looks like a Hallmark Christmas movie! How wonderful! Cold, but wonderful!
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