Hot Date on a Cold Night

Our hot date on a cold Monday Night:

Christmas Lights at Thanksgiving Point.

I really don't understand what "Thanksgiving Point" is, actually.

It apparently is a place with gardens and events and whatnot, and you can get a membership to it if you want to.

Whatever.

Bernie and I just wanted to go see the drive through their Christmas lights.

The drive had been advertised for awhile, and Monday was the last night that they could be seen.

I packed a thermos full of hot cocoa and we hit the road.

From far away it looked like this.

We paid eight dollars at the entrance. For two dollars more I could have had 3D glasses to wear, but with my glasses I couldn't make them work. Plus I didn't understand how something I was seeing in 3D could be made more 3D with the glasses.

We were told to turn off our car's headlight and drive slowly through the lights.

The displays were about two stories high, and were highly animated.

The smoke flew from the chimney and the windows and trees blinked merrily.

Penguins raced over igloos...

And Gingerbread men vaulted over our car.

There were Candyland scenes, Victorian Christmas scenes and 50's rock and roll scenes, all set to appropriate music.

Reindeer trotted up a ski ramp and launched into the sky...

Candy canes danced and hard candy patties spun about.

I think Bernie and I were the inspiration for this couple that raced along on their snow mobile.

(NOT!)

I got a kick out the gifts tumbling through the sky.

Busy elves put the final touches on a cottage.

I did mention that it was a cold night didn't I?

15 degrees F., -9.44 C.

Boy did that hot cocoa hit the spot!

We could see families taking in the lights in horse drawn trolleys and couple snuggling under blankets in horse drawn carriages, and I wasn't the least bit envious.

There is a time for such romantic conveyance, and also a time for good old fashioned common sense...which in this case meant staying in our car with the heater blazing away full blast!

Pretty fun.

As a Monday night date night, it was just right.

The only thing that could have made it better would have been if we could have been on the date as two three year olds.

Oh yeah.

That would have been amazing.

Maybe next year we can borrow a couple of tykes and see the lights through their eyes.

That is an idea to look forward to.