Christmas Lights

We were invited to go see the Christmas lights with another family from church. It was a great evening of food, lights, hot chocolate, laughter and great fellowship. Here are a few pictures from that evening.

This year's GardenFest of Lights theme is Nature's Beautiful Web, inspired by the children's book Cobweb Christmas. Author Shirley Climo based her story on a charming German folktale that has been retold for hundreds of years in many lands. Supposedly Kris Kringle magically transformed humble spider webs spun on a holiday tree into "gleaming gold strands and sparkling silver threads." The shimmering tinsel that resulted gave great joy to "a little, old woman named Auntie"...and continues to delight us today. Visit Auntie and her animal friends in the Conservatory's West Wing, then see how many of her friendly spiders and "tinseled webs" you can spot throughout the Garden -- including a gigantic, shimmering spider web that will lace across the Sunken Garden pool!

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I just love the flamingos.
the reflection of the peacock on the water was amazing
little turtle, flowers, and frogs
Rebecca had broken ANOTHER toe earlier that week (gotta get her some steel toed socks) and JD took pity on her at the end of the night and gave her a piggy back ride.