Wintertime Shenanigans
During the winter season, our city hosts a bunch of Christmastime events. This typically consists of a giant 20 foot evergreen tree, a carnival ride, some activities, and of course, Santa 😊🎅
This year, our oldest daughter was especially happy to attend. She just turned 3-years-old, so the concept of Christmas and Santa have finally started to connect with her.
I wanted to share some photos that we captured this year! 😄
When we had first arrived earlier on in the day, we had decided to feed the pigeons. Pigeons are a very common sight in the downtown area, they have been here ever since I was a child!
Yet ever since being a child, I have never been able to get a pigeon to land on me. This is because in previous years, people were not allowed to feed the birds. Well, now that we are experiencing a different cultural climate, more people have obviously been feeding them, because this crew of pigeons happened to land on me no problem! 😂 You can probably note this from my terrified reaction 😄
Here is the lovely Christmas tree that overlooks downtown every year 🎄 It is absolutely gorgeous... There aren't too many things that I enjoy about our city anymore, but the Christmas tree still holds a special place in my heart.
There is also a little carnival ride set up every year. One time it was a Ferris wheel. Another year it was a spinning ride 😵 This year it was a merry-go-round 🎠
I was quite pleased about this because it was a ride that was suitable for both of our children (3-years-old and 20-months-old). They both loved it! Every time we would walk past, our oldest would always ask to go on 😄
There were a few characters and mascots as well! I am happy to note that we saw Elsa and Anna from Frozen. There were these cute actresses cosplaying as the characters. Unfortunately we are not a Disney family, and so our children have never seen the movie; they had no interest in meeting the girls 😅
Our local mascot was also there! His name is Stripes the Tiger, he is a mascot for our football team, the Hamilton Tigercats.
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I will admit, his design is quite intimidating 😅 First of all, he's huge! And second of all, his smile comes across as a little evil 😈 Our daughter wasn't thrilled to meet him, but she still went up to shake his hand.
And of course, Santa!!~ 🎅 Our oldest had been talking about Santa all month, she had seemed so excited about the idea. But naturally, upon meeting him, she became very upset 🥺 It always seems to go that way, doesn't it?
Here are just some extra shots of our daughter and I playing in the city fountain 😄
And visiting a local church. The outside of the building was adorned with these lovely purple lights, so obviously our daughter had to take some pictures 😂
Wow, those are very spoiled birds.