Elkton had it's first Christmas parade in apparently 30 years on December 7th. I do not ever remember a Christmas parade, but if I went to one when I was 5 or younger, I just don't remember it.
I actually haven't been to many Christmas parades to compare, but for Elkton, I thought it was pretty good. I always tell the story of the Christmas parade that I went to in Tifton, GA (don't ask) and will always remember the Cadillac convertible in the parade that was being driven by a live horse. I'll always remember that and have yet to figure out how. And no I was not drunk and I was probably 22 at the time, so yes I remember it clearly, it was a live horse.
Moving on. We camped out on the town square with our camp chairs so we would have comfy (ish) seating. For reasons unknown to me, we were apparently the only people who thought to bring camp chairs to the parade. Everyone else was standing or sitting on a damp concrete ledge. I didn't think it was that novel of an idea to have camp chairs, but apparently we were the only ones thinking that way!
Mallory enjoyed it, she like the drums and she especially liked Santa at the end. Oh and I found it interesting that we got more candy from the Christmas parade by sitting in one spot than when we walked over a mile trick or treating. Perhaps we need a Halloween parade as well!!
Right before the parade got started, Ben's parents arrived for the weekend, so once the parade was finished we walked down to the Community House and got in line to have Bean's picture made with Santa and Mrs. Clause.
I've been asking Bean all week what she wanted for Christmas from Santa and her answer has always been the same: ELEPHANTS! Not sure where this infatuation with elephants has come from (perhaps a youtube video Aunt Brenda has posted on FB that we watched) but regardless she wants elephants. We waited in line, she happily went to be with Santa and Mrs. Clause and she told them she wanted Elephants. Fairly painless!
Here's those pictures, nothing great, but we got them for free none the less.
After that we headed home to a crock pot of chili that I had made earlier in the day.
Saturday we had the day planned in Nashville. We headed out after lunch (Ben and his dad went deer hunting that morning) and we were going to Oprymills, to eat at Cock of the Walk and then go see the lights at Opryland Hotel.
Obviously Ten thousand or more other people had the same idea, but we had no set time we had to be anywhere, so I didn't let the traffic bother me, we just slowly made our way from the offramp to Opry Mills Mall. We did a bit of shopping, Santa shopped for Elephants at the Rainforest Café, we got Bean her Christmas dress, lots of people, but not just maddening.
We worked our way out to the side of Opry Mills to go across the street to Cock of the Walk. I'm not even really sure how to describe this restaurant other than it's yummy. It's a take from like the Huck Finn days and being on the river (the Cumberland River is near by) and the waiters and waitresses are dressed kinda like that era and with the funny hats. It's a catfish restaurant and man they have yummy catfish and fixings. They have a few other things to eat other than catfish, but I don't know anyone who has ever ordered anything else, lol.
Next was the Opryland Hotel. It was packed. We waited in line for what seemed like an eternity, probably 30 minutes to park. They parked us in some far off lot and we had to walk a good half mile to the actual hotel. Of course it was raining by this point but I had 2 umbrellas and we had Bean's umbrella stroller, so we all made out fine. We wandered around the hotel and saw the lights, wasn't as many as I remember, but we had a good time and found the kid town area where M got to ride the train, with mommy! She loved it.
Overall she was really good. She had one little meltdown the whole day while we were at the hotel but other than that, she was a real trooper!
Here's a few pictures!!
Now in other exciting news, a bit of progress has been made on the lot where we are going to build.
We got bids, well a bid but that's a long story I'm not going to bore you with the details of some incompetent folks who tried to give me their bid after the deadline, to cut the selected timber off the lot and in the area where the house was going to go. So we met with him Monday afternoon, signed the contract, they got moved in and starting cutting on Tuesday and were done by Friday. Now that's my kind of people! So now you can really see where the house will be and although there's still a lot of woods and trees, it's much easier to get through the woods and we have a driveway, albeit mud : )
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