Plaza Lighting Ceremony

This year we had a very quiet Thanksgiving day with Autumn. We all slept in and had a pajama day at home. Grandma was pretty sick and was in bed for over a week and I had the same thing as Grandma. I was feeling a little better by Thanksgiving day and Scott was feeling pretty good with his 5 day holiday break from IV's. Autumn and I had planned to go to the Plaza and watch the lighting ceremony that night and even though it was c.o.l.d...we ventured out to hang out with half a million of our closest friends!! We found a fantastic parking spot on one of the main roads (this was a total miracle!) and I parallel parked the VAN!!...and we found the nearest coffeehouse and enjoyed a Mint Mocha while we waited in the warmth.

The plaza is always blocked off from traffic and a stage is set up for all the musicians/choirs/entertainers. Channel 5 was there and there was even a huge screen set up a block away from the stage so more people could see the action. Autumn and I made our way up to the front where we were right next to the Channel 5 reporters and we think we were even on TV a few times. We had talked to the boys earlier that day and they were so bummed that 1. they had missed our Christmas in the Sky tradition and 2. they weren't going to get to see the Plaza lights either...so we told them they should watch it on tv with us. We found out they didn't get that opportunity but Autumn and I sure waved to them each time the camera came our way! We heard some great live Christmas music, joined in on the countdown and enjoyed another fantastic fireworks show...we were nice and warm in that huge crowd and even managed to get out of there pretty quickly with OUT hitting anyone! It was a lot of fun and all the kids would like to make it another holiday tradition.

This is as close as we could get...look at all the people!


It doesn't look too cold does it?


This was our 2nd fireworks show in 2 days...I LOVE fireworks!

This is as we are leaving the stage...look at all those people!

This is one of 3 that I shot as we were getting closer to the van. I used one of this series as our blog header. Have I mentioned all the people??