A couple of weeks ago I went to Nashville’s Christmas tree lighting and parade. It’s on a Friday night downtown, which I thought was so weird when we moved here but I guess it makes sense with the lights. This is the first time in 7 years I’ve made it out to watch the parade. Usually we forget about it until we’re stuck in a traffic jam due to the closed roads. Anyway…
My friend Laren and I went down to Public Square to meet our friends Kala and Nate. Nate was busy doing some video thing for work so the three of us waited for the tree to be lit. (Jason was on the road with a music gig, in case anyone is wondering.)
I was glad I had my new hat cuz it was COLD!
Waiting … waiting … waiting …
There it is!
As soon as the tree was lit, fireworks started going off … 2 blocks away! We could hear them echoing through the city streets but we could barely see them. I love fireworks! Who planned the timing and location of these 2 events? Oh well. We set off to find Nate, who didn’t have his phone with him.
Found him and a high place to stand and watch the parade.
Music City offered some pretty good marching bands.
And several fun Christmasy floats. They were really the only thing worth photographing from our perch. A candy cane, followed by a bizarre bloated rocking horse…
A Jack-in-the-Box…
A big green donut…
A T-Rex … wait a second … what does this have to do with Christmas?!
A Godzilla-size Gingerbread Man …
And an ornament.
According to tradition, the parade ended with Santa Clause. I didn’t get a good picture of the big guy because we had moved over by this propane heater to thaw out our feet and make awkward conversation with the other people huddled around it.
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That’s so fun! We skipped Pittsburgh’s light-up-night this year because it was like 15 degrees and snowing. (Too cold for Lauren/Aaron.) Nashville’s parade looks awesome!
Looks like fun. I wish I’d gone along.
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