Christmas on the Promenade!

Last night my mother, sister and I went to the yearly Christmas on the Promenade celebration hosted by Southern on their Promenade. If you happened to not be there, don’t worry: add up a dark night; all sizes and shapes of people dressed like snowmen; in addition to pretty music and happy moods, you get Christmas on the Promenade. Of course, don’t forget the WONDERFUL hot chocolate, donut rolls, and peppermints!

It was pretty much the same this year as last-same music groups, plays, manger scenes, food, etc. with the one exception that Santa moved his seat so instead of going up stairs to see him, you went down stairs! At the end of the Promenade there were pretty lighted snowmen and Christmas trees (picture), which of course were fun. Some of the music groups were the local SDA academy band, SliverBrass, Southern Jazz Ensemble (were they ever good!) and A.W. Spalding String Ensemble. Plus in performance there were One Praise Gospel Choir, a bell group named “Southern Ringtones”, and the drama group (I think!) was Eternal Reconcile.

The only problem was that it was super-cold, so we just walked the Promenade and went back. Still, we saw many of our friends, which is always fun! Actually, we got there at 6:30(when we THOUGHT it was beginning) and saw practically no one there, and the people that were there were just setting up. So we walked all the long way back to Dad’s office (we had walked nearly the whole Promenade), and "cozyed" up there until about 7:00pm, when we snowmen (& women) went back out into the cold and had a great time at Christmas on the Promenade.

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P.S.-Yesterday I also took some pretty cute pictures of my sister giving her “school report” to Mom. :D Enjoy them (below).

P.P.S.-Sunday our family put up our Christmas tree and decorations. I might post photos of the tree sometime....though I am a very busy high school student!!