A Cold Winter's Night

Technically it's not winter yet. It's still fall for a couple more weeks. The weather, though, said otherwise. Friday evening at around 5:30 it was already in the 20's. That's a perfect night to go stand in the middle of mainstreet to watch the lights be lit and Santa go down the street. Right? Yeah, not so much.


We did go to the Downtown Littleton lighting. We almost didn't because Aaron felt it was too cold. The kids were wild though. I mentioned that I would take them to the bookstore instead. Aaron decided that if we were going out anyway we might as well go to the lighting. Probably not a great idea, but we were living in the moment.


The "ceremony" was scheduled from 5:30 to 6:30. I thought that this meant the parade with Santa would start at 5:30 and the whole event would be over at 6:30. I guess that's why I'm not an Event Planner. We were downtown at 5:30 ready to go. We grabbed our free hot cocoa and picked a perfect place to watch the parade. By 5:45, nothing had happend yet. Aaron ran into the coffee shop and got us some hot drinks. That took about 20 minutes because the line was terribly long.


After getting the coffee we decided to try walking around to keep warm. It was very cold and we were starting to feel it despite our many layers of clothing. Aaron should have put on his long johns when the rest of us did. His legs were very cold. We walked to the end of mainstreet where we saw the tree. Also, they had children getting up on the stage to sing. Normally, I would have thought this was very cute. But, it was cold outside and the kids did not know the words to the songs they were singing. Very annoying!


Finally, we decided to give up on the lighting and started to walk back to our car. Just as we were about to turn down the street where our car was parked the lights started to come on. This was at 6:35. They lit one block at a time. Santa rode in the back of a truck. That was the parade. I don't know how long it took to light the entire street, but it took about 10 minutes to light the 2 blocks that we saw.


Hopefully, the Parade of Lights we are attending in downtown Denver next weekend goes better.