Our New Year’s Eve

We had one last family outing to wrap up 2011. We drove to a nearby community to enjoy their Winter Wonderland, a drive-through holiday lights spectacular.

I had shown Kai a YouTube video of it and he said that he wanted to go.

When we got there, there was a line of cars. Every car was proceeding very slowly as everyone was undoubtedly were taking in all the sights and snapping a lot of pictures.

We saw every cartoon character you can think of.

And the lights were impressive.

In addition to the lights and displays, signs advised us to tune in to a local radio station that played Christmas music. So, we tuned our car radio to 107.1.

But the sounds we heard were not Jingle Bells. No, what we heard was:

I WANT TO GO HOME!

HOW MUCH LONGER IS THIS?

GO FASTER!

WE’RE GOING ZERO MILES PER HOUR!

THIS ISN’T A WINTER WONDERLAND; IT’S A STUPID WONDERLAND!!!!!

It took us nearly an hour to drive through the area, though it seemed to last a lot longer.

But the one good thing about it was that the time we spent at the Stupid Wonderland did help to pass the time. By the time we got home, had our Video Night (The Hunchback of Notre Dame II), and turned on the television to watch the ball drop on Times Square, time seemed to pass quickly and we were able to stay up until midnight without too much trouble.

Kai was excited as we made our Happy New Year 2012 sign.

And when it was time to count down, he was boisterously happy.

I can’t wait to see what this new year brings.

Hope you are having a happy start to 2012!