Christmas Parade

Another one of the free, fun things I planned for us for our Christmas Season was the Longview Christmas Parade.  I had these great plans of picking up dinner at Chick Fil A, taking it with us & meeting up with the Molinas, but after driving around for AWHILE looking for parking, we finally just found a spot on the other side from where we intended, hiked up a hill and watched the parade.  W didn't even get to be with the Molinas.  :-(

The good news about this age of kids is they don't really know that things didn't go as planned.  They don't know that we were going to be with friends.  They don't know that being 30 feet back from the parade is not really optimal seating.  They don't know that when you only stay 30 minutes because it's cold & it's hard to stand on the side of a hill, that it wasn't really the plan to do that all along.  

They just know that they got to wave at a lot of people, hear some bands, see a lot of fun lights & most of all had fun!

Girls eating dinner

Next year, we'll plan to get there a little earlier, and hopefully our plans will workout.  I was still thankful for an attempt at Family Fun!