What a nice ending to another long week. I met some friends after work for a quick drink and white elephant gift exchange. I hadn’t seen some of them in months, and I enjoyed the brief social respite. I can’t wait for the day we can get together on the regular.

Then later Patrick and I went through a Christmas light show put on by a local church.

They had it last year, and although we talked more than once about checking it out, we never did.

I love sparkly lights. I like most sparkly things. I’m grateful we finally saw them; it was exactly as Christmasy as I had hoped. One of our parks also has lights to drive through, so we’re planning to do that soon, too. Maybe we will get some snow to make it even more festive. Fingers crossed!