'Tis the Season

We've hit a few Christmas tree lighting around the city the past week or so. It started out with the Embarcadaro Center lighting and skating rink opening. I headed down there with the kids and Young was meeting us when he got off work...see the lighting and grab some dinner while we were out. That was the plan...but Young got held up at work and couldn't make it so I was on my own with the twins in a very bustling crowd. We made it through all the activities and Timo even got a Mater hat...he was very excited about his truck hat.
After all the excitement, we needed to to find something to eat. The crowds were so thick that I ended up walking a few blocks away from everyone to this kid friendly pasta place. Good news is they were kid friendly...bad news it they were out of high chairs. I waited about 20min hoping some would open up but no luck. I had to risk it and hope the kids would behave and stay seated in their seats...with nothing strapping them in! Even better news, the kids were awesome! Luckily the tables were covered in paper so the kids just "colored" with a pen and a pencil I had in the diaper bag. Then fireworks went off as the skating rink opened and we had a birds eye view of the show. Our table overlooked the rink and we saw all the fireworks. Cameron kept saying "wow!", "whoa!" really loud and cracking up the tables around us. I was beaming with pride as different people stopped to say what good little children I have. (first time for everything!)I think they were so well behaved because they were so hungry. It was well past their normal supper time and they practically inhaled their spaghetti.


Then a few days later we headed down to Fisherman's Warf for their Christmas Tree lighting. Again, super large crowds, but we managed to see the lighting. We actually took the kids out of the stroller and let them walk around themselves until they no longer wanted to hold our hands. We had "those kids" when we tried to put them back in the stroller...kicking and screaming. They put on one good show for the crowd! Ugh! But we had a nice evening up to that point. It's worth it just to see the wonder and surprise in the kids eyes when the saw the tree all lite up!