Tonight we went to the Festival of Trees. This annual event is a benefit for Sheltered Living and is really wonderful. Creatively themed decorated trees and wreaths are donated by people and businesses in the community for auction and you walk through as if you've stumbled into some kind of enchanted forest. There was entertainment, as well as yummy goodies to buy, and this year they had horse-drawn wagon rides. We listened to a children's church choir and then watched a group of girls dance. Anna was about to come undone! She's been begging to go to ballet class (which we will be enrolling her after the new year) and she kept asking me if she could go up on stage with them...in the middle of their routine. Afterwards we went outside to meet the horses. It was frigid cold, and apparently no one else was nuts enough to be outside, but we bundled up in wool blankets for the ride. There's something very soothing about the clopping cadence of horses hooves and the sway of the wagon. Closing my eyes I could almost forget we were in a parking lot with the occasional car passing nearby. Snuggling up close with my favorite toddler was another benefit. After the ride, one of the horses named Vic (the other I've ashamedly already forgotten - drats!) gave Anna's coat an affectionate nibble. Then they let Anna sit up with the driver for a photo op. I wish I'd had our good camera with me to capture all of this instead of my low-res phone camera, but to quote Alex, "The camera you have is always better than the camera you left at home." As you can see, it really is a wonderful life.
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