We loved A Candlelight Christmas at This Is The Place Heritage Park last year so much that we had to do it again this year. First we visited Santa:
Made fun of some fake carolers:
(In case you can't tell, i'm making fun of the smallest boy. Scary, I know.)
One of the houses in the village had a naughty and a nice list.
Whichever you chose to put your name on determined how much candy you got.
If you put your name on the "Naughty" list you got coal.
On the nice list you got a piece of taffy!
Here is Mercedes putting her name on the "Nice" list:
There's her name at the top!
Miranda joined in the fun and also added her name to the nice list:
They had a little lit-up Christmas Village complete with little elves inside the houses.
We went to see the live Nativity and ran into some livestock...literally.
This little fella was loving the attention.
They had the same puppet show they did last year.
Mercedes was mesmerized.
We also learned a new little dance.
Mercedes made a tree ornament in one of the houses and later got to add it to their town tree.
Eventually we got hungry and stopped in to the Huntsman Hotel for some nice warm soup, breadsticks and hot chocolate.
It was delicious!
Then we took a ride on the train.
Gotta visit the sweet shop!
Mercedes got to write a letter to Santa in one of the houses.
It says "Dear Santa, I want a DSI. Love Mercedes."
(A DSI is a mini game console.)
After she wrote it she went outside to a fire pit and burned it. The idea is that the ashes carry the letter to Santa himself. So cute.
They had live reindeer there!
We really enjoyed A Candlelight Christmas again this year.
I'm glad my Aunt Opal and cousin, Josh, could make it, too!
Merry Christmas!
3 comments:
looks like so much fun...but really really cold!
I think your aunt Opeal may have been in my ward growing up? Is that at all possible?
Yup, very possible! She actually lived in the neighborhood just East of your old house. So, I think she would've been! It was freeeeezing, but not as cold as it was last year...or maybe I just planned better this time!
I'm always amazed at what a small world it is!
And I am sure I would freeze. I am dreading temple Square this year just cause I don't do cold that well these days lol. I've been in the south too long!
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