Two Big Events - One Saturday

Saturday was a busy day for us. We really got our Christmas Season going with a visit to the Annual Christmas Creche Exhibit. At this show they display over 500 different nativities from 65 countries. We enjoyed walking through all the different rooms and seeing all the different interpretations of the same story. Some of the nativities were very elaborate and included many of the different characters of the story. Others were simple and just gave you the impression of Mary and the baby Jesus.
The kids did great not touching the exhibits but were thrilled when we got to the children's room where there were several nativities that they could handle.
They especially loved the marionette show. There is something magical about those marionettes and the performers did a wonderful job telling the story and everyone got to participate with the songs.
Also in the children's room was a area with all sorts of dress up clothes so the kids had a great time putting on outfits to be Mary or Joseph, the Wise Men, shepherds or even animals.
Here is Henry the Sheep.
Sophie enjoyed dressing up as Mary and riding a stuffed Donkey.
Ian looked great as a wise man.

After this event in the morning we quickly went home had a late lunch and then went off on our next outing. Every year my husband's parents take us to see the lights and play at a small amusement park in our area. The kids were so excited when we said we were going to do this today. They remembered all their favorite rides from last year and couldn't wait to do them again.

























It is always freezing when we go to this park so we bundled as best we could. But we still got so cold by the end of the night. But it was a lot of fun and we always have fond memories of going.

Here is our picture with Santa. Don't we all look wonderful in our bundled up, freezing loveliness.