Christmas stuff

Last Friday we went looking at Christmas lights in the area of Crown Hill.  It's not a gated community but there seems to be some kind of understanding that they're supposed to all put up lights for Christmas.  A couple houses were predominately blue and white so they're probably Jewish.  Most people really decorated nicely while a couple others put up a string or two and called it good.  Candy canes seemed to be popular this year.  Holly really enjoyed the lights and was calling them out left and right..."Santa!" "Snowman!" "Candy Canes!"  I could see Johnny back there looking at everything too.  Then on Saturday we went downtown to check out the festivities there.  First we went to Macy's to go see Santa.  There was no line at all, we just had to wait for the family that was on Santa's lap to finish their turn.  Holiday still has no wish to see Santa because she's still really scared of him, but Johnny was able to do the Santa picture.  Poor Holly.  We then took a ride on the carousel which is always a favorite activity for Holly.  After checking out the giant Christmas tree we ate some dinner.  Then we went to Pacific Place mall to check out the live music.  It was a gospel choir singing Christmas songs with piano and full percussion accompaniment and they were pretty good.  For us it just needs to be danceable and you know that Dancing Dave was out there cutting it up.  Holiday has learned enough from her dance class to follow David's lead, that made for a great video.  After that we browsed Barnes and Noble until it was time to go home.  I kind of miss downtown so that was fun for me.