It is day 4 of the NaBloPoMo Blog challenge and today I am writing about my favorite holiday memory. This memory is one we try to make every year and have since we were married. It did not necessarily occur on the same day every year. But it was something I loved doing. We would load up in our van (or it is possible we would do this on the way home from somewhere) and just drive. The sole purpose was to see the Christmas lights on all the homes.
For me, what color the lights were wasn't what was important. What was important was to see the lights. My husband always found the most beautiful displays of lights for us to see. Back in North Carolina, there was an older neighborhood that you could drive to the very back of and find magnificent new homes that were huge. These huge houses wound up having beautiful light displays.
As the years went by, we tried to add some things to our routine. One was to visit our local Christmas tree farm. This farm had grown from just selling trees to having a Christmas store, a restaurant, a hayride, farm animals and other things. But our favorite part was the hayride they introduced that took you all around the farm and had various displays set up to look at. The lights were spectacular. They had Christmas music playing throughout the display. So all in all, it was a wonderful experience.
So this is my favorite holiday memory! What is yours?
I love to go walking around and looking at Christmas lights as well. There is something so peaceful about it against the cold night sky full of stars.
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