Festival of Lights

For the 3rd year in a row, our plans to visit the National Tree in DC and go out to dinner for Dan's birthday had to be changed at the last minute. In 2008, I was on bedrest. In 2009, we had the 1st sizable snow of the season. In 2010, it was just a rainy yucky day. So instead, Dan's parents joined us for dinner and cake at our house.

After dinner, we noticed that the rain had pretty much stopped, so we piled in the van to drive through the Festival of Lights at Bull Run in Manassas.

Given the weather, we didn't plan on stopping at the carnival at the end. But..... it wasn't raining, so we hopped out of the car and were able to squeeze in a visit with Santa and a hayride.

As we were getting off the hayride, we all started to feel raindrops on our face. We made it back to the car just in time. Our timing could not have been more perfect.