It's the Most Busiest Time of the Year

We attended the Miracle on 7th Street Friday night.  I'm always happy to support downtown Terre Haute.  We did a little holiday shopping, ate some of our favorite pizza, made crafts at the Swope, and topped the night off with hot chocolate.  

 

On Saturday we had to leave the house bright and early for Indianapolis and the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.   We were given tickets to sit in one of the suites.  It was pretty cool to see how the other half lives.  We had a huge room to enjoy the show from, complete with snacks and drinks.  When they were getting the floor all set up before the show began they brought out these big covered balls and raised them up to be suspended on the ceiling.  We wondered what was in them.  When the show started the covers were dropped from the balls to reveal that there were ladies inside doing acrobatics.  Little minds were blown.  Evangeline said, "If those girls in the bubbles see their mommies they will have to tell them how good they were."  Evangeline absolutely loved the circus.  She sat on my lap nearly the whole time (both of us in suspense) and I kept hearing her exclaim, "this is awesome!".  At one point fairly soon after the show had started she said to me, "They were right, Mommy, this is the greatest show on earth."  

 

 Surely the animals aren't mistreated anymore, right?  I told myself that throughout the whole show. 

After lunch and a quick trip to Target we headed back to Marshall for the Christmas parade.  Evangeline was in the float for our church this year.  She was very excited.  I had instructions from Evangeline that I was not to ride the float with her, but to watch for her from the crowd.  She's a big girl now.  (There she is in the brown reindeer hat.)

Here's the picture I got as part of the crowd.  (She is wearing the pink gloves.)

And if that wasn't enough to pack into one day....we had plans to attend the pioneer Christmas walk at Fowler Park for months now.  It was well worth it.  I was amazed by the size of this pioneer village.  I hadn't been there since grade school.  There were over 20 cabins and a mill.  Everything was candle lit and their were pioneer reenactors in all of the cabins making something or doing some kind of pioneer activity.  We saw a woodworker,  a weaver, ladies making Christmas decorations from Sycamore balls, people roasting a chicken on the fire, making ox tail soup, reading the Christmas story from the Bible, popping popcorn and making cookies over the fire, playing the dulcimer, etc.  I can't wait to go back during the daytime to get a better look. 

It was a big, festive weekend and the week ahead doesn't look like it's letting up either.