First December weekend... Part 2

Wow! Did I keep you waiting long enough? Sorry about that. Not feeling great plus a lack of motivation, makes for a long wait for part 2. So Friday night we went to an event called The Living Windows. Downtown Jeff city blocks off a huge portion of a street downtown. Everyone walks down the streets, that are lit by Christmas lights and decorated. On every street corner there is free hot cocoa, apple cider and cookies. There are people passing out candy canes. There are of course treats and such that you can buy as well. All of the business store front windows have cute little kids dancing or singing. There are caroling choirs and bands everywhere. It was just such a festive fun filled way to kick off the season.

Here is Shiloh all bundled up ready to walk down High street

This was a fun little group that was playing Christmas carols. There were so many more, but since it was at night it is hard to get good pictures

On Saturday morning we went to a small town called Hermann. The add for this event sounded way more fun than it actually was... I mean it wasn't boring by any means, but it was a lot smaller than expected and I probably wouldn't make the trek again, but it is a good memory. One interesting fact that we found out in Hermann is that Shiloh is TERRIFIED of Santa Claus. Especially obnoxious creepy ones that come up to your 10 month old uninvited, and then after he starts screaming and trying to hide, he touches him without permission anyway. So my kid is afraid of Christmas trees and Santa Claus. Next on the list is Gingerbread houses I guess, or maybe even snowmen. Not really sure. We only took one pic in Hermann and it wasn't of the lame booths. It was of a beautiful vineyard outside of a winery. It was gorgeous.

After getting back from Hermann, we went to the Governor's mansion. They open the bottom level so that you can see it all dressed up for Christmas. It was beautiful and very historic looking. This was way more fun the previous event.

It was such a fun weekend, and we didn't even do everything there was to do that weekend, but I think we did enough to get the Christmas Spirit awakened in us. Still on the list to do, go to Rotary park and look at all of the lights and then there is a 27 acre field that is decorated and lit and you can drive through. Hopefully we get to that before the Christmas season is over.