Let the Festivities Begin.

What a beautiful night. It was warm, like 55-ish. There was Starbucks hot apple cider, although we opted not to wait in the extremely long line. Why were were we there in the first place? Well, our mall kicked off the holidays with a tree lighting ceremony. So we thought...hey why not check it out. And it was well worth it. We found a great parking spot...a sure sign that we needed to be there. We enjoyed the local high school's jazz choir renditions of all our favorite Christmas songs.

The tree was soooooo big...

We all sang "Santa Claus is Coming to Town..." very loudly...and he came on a great big fire engine!

Alex practiced making his own version of fireworks with Ken's keychain flashlight. Oh, the future pyrotechnic engineer...

And then BAM! The fireworks began and the tree was lit up! Santa worked his magic once again...
We were all a little tired but...

we were excited to go and get some Starbucks hot chocolate and that new flavor at Baskin Robbins....Peppermint...it's pink (very important for the girls) and has little pieces of peppermint candy in it (refreshing for the adults)...yummy. Can't you tell we found temporary happiness in a cone? Woo-hoo...let the festivities officially begin!

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