Happy Tuesday, y’all! A really long time ago, a blog friend and I hosted a series titled The Most Wonderful Time of the Year where we planned topics for a fun link up. This year I’m going to randomly blog Christmas related posts bringing this series back on my blog–some will be on our Christmas traditions, my Christmas house tour, etc. While this won’t be a link up, feel free to leave a link to your blog in the comments if you’ve blogged the same topic! Now on to today’s post…
Even though our home has been decorated for Christmas since early November, this past Sunday evening our family did something that really felt like the beginning to the Christmas season. There are some Christmas traditions that we don’t do every year–like staying at the Opryland Hotel during their Christmas season (we do that every other year) or driving through the Botanical Gardens light show. But after Sunday night, we’ve decided to do this activity every year!
What was it? The Botanical Gardens light show walking night! Dustin planned a surprise date night one year before Harrison was born and took me to a walking night. Since it’s been at least five year, they’ve obviously added more features and lights, and it was completely magical! I even have an IG stories highlight where you can hear me say “Wow” way too many times LOL.
We went and ate dinner at one of our favorites, Taco Mama, before we headed to the botanical garden. We got there about 6 and spent a little over an hour walking!
They had music piped through speakers the entire walk (which I think is over 3 miles?) and in some areas they even have fake snow! They have concessions along the way, too. One tent was for cocktails, one for hot chocolate, and one for snacks. Since we last did a walking night over five years, they even had interactive areas like the swing above. It was seriously so incredibly magical and the perfect weather–cold but not too cold.
Now was it expensive? Yes. But we felt it was completely worth it in order to make memories. Hopefully our kids will look forward to this each year just like I looked forward to certain traditions with my parents each year!
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