We have made a tradition of going to these two winter events in Minneapolis, and we have gone almost every year even when we lived in Champaign. Here are a few fun photos from last night.

This year was the 47th annual 8th Floor Holiday display at Macy's, themed "A Day in the Life of an Elf". Although we have taken the girls to this in previous years; this year was definitely the most fun. The girls were in awe of whole display and would hardly look at the camera for fear that they might miss something. Here they are watching the elves make toys and candy:o)


Then we went down to Nicollet Ave. to watch the parade.


Here is a taste of what we saw. All of the floats are covered in holiday lights and themed mostly in children's stories. There was Mother Goose, Captain Hook, Alice in Wonderland, and many others and as always the parade ended with Santa.


We went to the parade with Nana and Papa. It was a lot of fun and it was a pretty nice night for the parade, a whole 10 degrees! Randy was there too, but he is the man behind the camera:o)