On Friday night, Blacksburg had the Christmas parade and tree lighting. I went down for about 4.30 to have a look around the market and listen to the choir. They had some really nice craft things in the market but I am trying to save money. Though I was very tempted by the minion hats!
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| kids choir at the market |
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| Minion hats |
After a free cup of hot cider, I followed the choir around to the Henderson lawn and meet up with Cissi. We couldn't see much of the ceremony but the tree looked good. (Most of the photos are Cissi's. My cameras have gone missing! Someone has stolen both my DSLR and my compact. If I ever find out who has taken them…. So I am also now saving for a new DSLR. :-( )
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| Blacksburg christmas tree. |
After the xmas tree lighting, we got some more hot cider and listened to the Tuba band. They have tuba and euphonium players came from as far as North Georgia and New Jersey. There is something very festive about a brass band playing carols.
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| Lampposts |
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| Brass band |
We even managed to find Santa and get our photos taken, which made me very happy!
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| With Santa |
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| Cissi and Santa |
After a brief look around an art exhibit (Cissi's housemate was showing some of her work with others from her degree and it was, in my opinion, the best of the lot), we staked out a place to watch the parade. They shut down Main street and another major street for it. There were lots of floats from local businesses and they gave out candy to the kids. The best one was a lorry which blow real snow! I got very excited. (Though I didn't find it so excited this morning when I looked outside to snow, ice and sleet!)
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| Tree trimmers |
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| Panoramic of downtown |
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| Getting ready to watch the parade. |
The bits we saw of the parade were fun. Unfortunately it started raining after a while! :-( So we ended up running for shelter. And because the roads had been closed down for the parade, we had to wait a while for the buses to starting running again to get home. But it was worth the time as I really didn't want to walk in the rain!
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