On November 23rd, we went to the Festival of
Lights on James Island with Brady and Jackie Hammond. Yes I know we are crazy
to go to a Christmas event the Monday before Thanksgiving, but we wanted to get
in last year when we tried we waited for probably an hour in a our car bumper
to bumper before realizing we were still a couple of miles away from the
entrance of the park where the Festival of Lights is held. At that time last
year we decided to get ice cream, go home and come before the Christmas chaos
began next year. So that is what we did. The lights were lots of fun, however a
little more of the Santa, commercialized Christmas lights then I have seen in
the past (like at Temple Square).
The best was the first thing we saw as we drove into the
park, a light Ravenel Bridge over a pond. All in Christmas lights there were
nursery rhymes, dolphins jumping into ponds, and Santas, and a Christmas tree
light show to a Trans-Siberian Orchestra song.
I thought the 50 ton sand sculpture was pretty neat too. It was Christmassy and Charleston-y all in
one.
We enjoyed going to The Festival of Lights for a Christmas
activity that we hadn't done before and we experienced Charleston and Christmas
in a new way.
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