We thought for sure there would be, like, a zillion things to do on Christmas Eve. We had carved out the late afternoon and evening do Christmas-y stuff as a family. But it turns out that everyone in the world must stay home on this day, since everything closed up at 5pm.
So we shoved the kids into the car the minute they woke up from naps and sped downtown so we could hit a few events before they closed. The whatever-they’ve-named-the-energy-company-this-week train display was first on the list. The kids loved this the most because of the nice people who gave away free cookies at the entrance…but the train display was really neat, too. Then we hunted down the model of downtown made of gingerbread, which was really ho-hum. Much neater was the gingerbread house display in a nearby hotel lobby. I think gingerbread houses will be on our agenda next week, even though Christmas is officially over. Then a quick zip by the square to see ice skaters and to gaze at some big trees.
We headed to dinner at P.F. Chang’s, which is totally not Christmas-y at all, but quite delicious. Then home just in time to tuck the kids into bed with visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads. Or something like that.