Advent

The rest of the world thinks its Christmas already, so we are obliging them by attending their activities. 

We went to Greensboro's tree lighting, which was full of people.

We went to Fincastle's for dinner and the girls were great. Irene ate a bunch of ranch dressing. I ate a bunch of fried pickles. Evangeline almost ate all of her hangurber. I ate all of my Heisenberger.

And THE BIG MOMENT OF THE NIGHT!
The grand countdown. Thousands of people all watching the tree, counting down from 10.
And then the top of the tree did not light.
Pretty much the most important part.
Didn't work out.
So close. But yet so far.

But whatever. They had cotton candy.

And that is pretty much how she was for the whole time.

This building faces the park with the tree. There were a bunch of parties going on. We look forward to hosting one when we live there one day.

And here is a video of Irene with the microkorg vocoder.