Lights of Life

Last year I read on someone's blog about Lights of Life at Life University.  It sounded like a lot of fun and I've been wanting to check it out since I first read about it.  We visited today and I would give it a 6 out of 10.

We had dinner at a Persian restaurant called Falafel Cafe and the food was really good.  I LOVE Mediterranean food so this totally hit the spot for me.  EV is also a lover of food so we all enjoyed our plate of Tabbouleh salad, hummus, yogurt sauce, falafel, lamb slices, and pita.  Then we headed over to Life University.  The lights itself is decent, it's definitely no Lake Lanier, but it had some similar displays.  The only thing that made it hard to enjoy is that some of the lights are so close to the street, it's a little hard to make out what it was supposed to be.  They had one display of an Eagle (I think it's their mascot) and it was waving and EV says, "What's that thing that is 'hi-ving'?" It took me a moment to realize she was trying to say waving but couldn't think of the word so said "hi-ving."  Haha!  The whole time on the way to Life EV kept saying, "How are we going to see if it is dark?"  I think she was having a hard time conceptualizing these lights.  When she finally saw them, she was wide-eyed and I think a little confused.

Anyways, after we looked at the lights we went to the little carnival part and went on a train ride and the petting zoo.  I was especially amazed at how well EV did in the petting zoo.  She touched every animal and was not scared one bit--we've come a loooonnng way from even 3 months ago when she peed in her pants walking into a pet store because the animals scared her.  EV really enjoyed watching a small band play some Christmas music while eating marshmallows we toasted on a stick.  And on the way home she got to enjoy some hot chocolate while listening to Michael Buble sing Christmas songs.

Like I said, all in all, I give it a 6 out of 10.  Compared to Lake Lanier, it's a lot cheaper ($10 per car on Fri and Sat, $5 other days), there's a lot of activities for kids, and the lights were enjoyable.  I enjoyed the company more than anything; an evening out with my two loves is priceless.

On a completely other note, I forgot to start our advent ornament tree today so we'll do two tomorrow.  This will be the only "tree" we have this year because of our pending home renovation we did not buy an actual Christmas tree.