Southern Lights at Kentucky Horse Park

My next few posts will be some "catch up" posts from this fall/winter.  Once more, I've been slacking.  Anyway, I thought I'd start with our Christmas light adventure...which is more recent than the others. 

A few days after Christmas, we decided to load into the family truckster with another family and go look at Christmas lights at the Kentucky Horse Park.  We drove through the lights; it was a pretty good display.  However, the really neat part of this was the indoor/outdoor self-tour type deal. 

On the way in, we found several snow flakes like these and had to have a picture of Eli & his bff.  Aren't they adorable? 

When we got in, there was a snowman who walked around and took pictures with people.  He terrified Eli--so we avoided him--cute as he was.  Eli then found this nutcracker and wanted his picture taken with him. 

There are two ways to get Eli to take a picture in Santa's seat.  #1:  Let him scream, kick, and throw a hullaballoo.  #2:  Wait until after Christmas and let Santa disappear. 

We took the easy route.

They had a really fun petting zoo with a zebra, cattle, goats, a wallaby or two, llamas...

and a couple of camels.  They also had camel rides available.  But we skipped out on them to do something far more cool...

A pony ride!!!  Eli LOVED this.  He referred to this monsterous beast as his "race horse" and said he "went really fast."  If only we had more than three square feet in our backyard, this big boy might need a pony.

Then we found the train exhibit.  This was the highlight of Eli's evening (other than his race horse, of course).

He was so excited about it that the little conductor man let Eli have his stool for a bit.  This gave him a great view of the whole train table, and he got to be really close up.  Yay!

We moved on through the exhibit, and he found a display down low.  This one was huge AND it had Thomas! He stayed here for a long time--watching, watching, and watching some more.

In the entry/exit way, we took a family picture by the gigantic Christmas tree.  I do believe this will be the last one before Kate's arrival!

This was a great way to tell the Christmas season goodbye for this year! 

Lingering thought of the day:  I received a Kindle for Christmas (and love it).  However, it bit the dust on Friday.  Saturday I called Kindle Customer Service (after trying all of the fix it tips online).  After two five minute phone calls, the issue was resolved.  My new Kindle will arrive on Tuesday.  How impressive is that customer service?  There are about a million reasons why I love Amazon...correction:  that is now a million one.