Fun Holiday Weekend

We have had a wonderful fun holiday weekend. Yesterday was fantastic! We went downtown to the Macy's holiday lightshow. Sophie LOVED IT. She kept looking up and squealing and she clearly had a great time. Well, that is until she started to get tired but up until then she had a really fantastic time. This lightshow, for those of you not from Philly, is the quintessential holiday tradition/rite of passage for Philly kids. It was started by the old John Wanamakers, a great local department store, now owned by Macys. Many of us were pretty darn upset when Macys took over the lightshow (and frankly we went in the early years and it just wasn't the same). I'm happy to say that now they may have made it even better!! They seemed to have upgraded all their lights (looks like to the LED lights) and they now having moving spotlights circling around the walls and ceiling of snowflakes, trees, trains, and stars. Truth told, this was probably Sophie's favorite part. It was just great. Then, Sophie put her letter to Santa in the mailbox (which by the way for every letter that is received Macy's makes a $1.00 donation to Make A Wish Foundation).

After the lightshow we went up to the toys (not much selection but fun) and if the line were shorter we would have maybe gotten her photo with Santa but lines were way too long. Good thing I got her photo taken with Santa already so we didn't have to worry and wait in the line. Then we went to Reading Terminal Market, the oldest indoor food market in the country. We love Reading Terminal and being there reminded us that we need to go more often. We got roast pork and beef sandwhiches from DiNicks and yummy cupcakes from the Flying Monkey. We also picked up some walnuts and other items for the cookies.

Today, Jim put up the outside lights and we started our cookie baking. Unfortunately, Sophie is afraid of the mixer so Cookiepalooza didn't quite happen. (She also was up at 4am so is a little tired and "tender" today, too). But, we have successfully made a batch of chocolate chip cookies so that is a start, right? We also managed to make it out for Trey's birthday bash at Jumpers for a little while. All in all a wildly happy weekend for all!!