Christmas Shopping and Lights

It's tradition in our family to go shopping and look at the Christmas lights on Temple Square. We have never been to the new City Creek shopping center and so we checked it out too. It was pretty cool I guess for a shopping place, if you like shopping and are into that. We did get some shopping done and are almost done with all of our shopping now. Just a couple more things to get. RB's brother, wife, and kid were able to join us for awhile shopping. It was good to see them and catch up.

The Macy's windows were really cool! It is amazing that these are all made our of candy. Definitely made the top 5 list of things we saw and did. Here is Rat with the Rat King. hehe. 

Another top 5 is visiting the South visitors center and seeing the temple diorama. It is super cool to look at and the girls love all the buttons that you can push on the touch screens. 

Another top 5 is of course the lights. 

Relaxing for a bit and MJ taking pictures of doggy Lil. 

This was awesome and may be number 1 on the coolest parts of our night. They were doing a concert in one of the buildings and we went in to listen for awhile. It was SO BEAUTIFUL. We would have stayed longer, but Buddy was done and had had enough. So we continued on. 

Lastly, we always visit the North visitors center and the statue of Christ.

 MJ loves this! 

It was a fun, long day and we were all exhausted by the end of it. Buddy had a HARD time in our last stop with the statue of Christ. They were only letting up groups of people at a time and so we had to wait. He hated that. Then on the way home everyone fell asleep but Ms M who screamed the majority of the way home. Plus, traffic was crazy. We don't get out much to the big cities I guess. So besides the drive home the day was a success. Good family fun!