Victorian Stroll and the Tree Lighting

The past two nights have been filled with more evening activities than we've done in the past few months! We headed out after work to eat dinner with our friends who live downtown. Then we walked into town for Saratoga's Victorian Stroll. It's exciting because the street is closed and there are carolers and musicians and some people dress up in period attire. Santa comes and they light the tree (but we missed that part). The girls were most excited to ride the carousel.

We stayed out a bit too late and got caught in the rain on the way home, but fortunately it wasn't too cold out.

Tonight we decided to be a bit crazy and have another late night... after MiniM.E.'s Tae Kwon Do class, we booked it over to Gavin Park for Wilton's tree lighting ceremony.

As we were waiting for it to start, MiniM.E. was chosen to flip the switch to light the tree!! She was a little nervous, but she did great and was so proud!

In our three years living right down the road from the park, we never ventured out for the tree lighting, but with the mild weather this year we thought we'd give it a try. Definitely will be on our list of things to do to start the season next year. It was pretty amazing. The park was decorated with tons of Christmas lights, Santa came in on a fire truck parade, there was free food and activities and you could sit with Santa!