Busy Christmas Season Weekend

We're all pretty tired this morning but a lot was going on this weekend.  Friday night the dance studio was part of the first year the Rainier Beach Merchants Association did a storefront holiday display contest.  It seemed like a pretty good showing.  Most places had free cookies, cider, hot chocolate.  The dance studio had performances by the dance team every 15 minutes.  I made cookies for them to supplement their hospitality stash.  There's a new place called St. Jude's that's still in remodeling mode but it looks like it will be a nice cafe.  Wings and Waffles had one of their owners doing some spinning/DJ stuff so it was jumping there.  Stopped by the magic/juggling store where David gets his yo-yo's and they had a kids art project going on.  Can't wait to see who won the contest.  Saturday Grandma Claudia came over to babysit while David and I did some Christmas shopping.  We also picked up the new bed for Johnny.  It hasn't been put together yet, we've been that slammed.  We did manage to squeeze in a bit of a date while out shopping by going out for sushi.  It was funny by the time we were done we both were incredibly thirsty.  Yesterday Holiday and I went with Grandma Claudia to the Victorian Country Christmas Fair in Puyallup.  She did really well and we walked down every single aisle.  We picked up a couple things.  The new addition this year was the North Pole with a chance to see Santa.  I'll have to get those pictures posted.  But the North Pole included several arts and crafts areas, several lounging areas (great if the little ones you brought to the fair need a break), bakery for treats, etc.  Everything was thought out well so there was no lines.  Holiday, Grandma and I rode on the carousel.  Holiday came back for a second ride, which was also the last ride of the night.  My right knee aches today and I'm pretty wiped out.  The good news was I burned off all the sushi from the day before. We walked for about 4 hours at the fair so Holiday did great.