Prairie Lights

Both of our boys love seeing all the Christmas lights this year. Every night after dinner and/or bath, we have to go take a walk around the block to see the lights close to our house. Everytime we tell Rycie to get his shoes so we can go somewhere, he says "yights! yights!" He thinks we are going to go see lights, day or night. So we decided to take them to a drive through light show that has 4 million lights called Prairie Lights. A lot of the lights are animated and some change colors.

About 5 days before we went, I showed Cason a video of Prairie Lights on youtube. He was so excited, he counted down the days until Kelly came home so we could go. We got there right as they opened last Sunday night. The first part you drive through very slowly and they have lights in the shape of everything Christmas related you could think of. Candy canes, gingerbread people, santas, reindeer, the 12 days of Christmas made out of lights, etc. They even had some non holiday stuff like Dallas Cowboys lights.



Reindeers flying over the cars.



Bears batting a fish back and forth (because it was right by the lake).



Holiday lights we drove under.



After a mile or two of the light drive, there was an area to get out of your car. They had a carousel so we took the boys on their first ever carousel ride. *Insert worst ever picture here.*



That was the best picture we could get. Kelly is not familiar with either camera and it was going too fast (and my hands were too full) to show him how to change to sports mode to try to get a not so blurry shot. I'm not sure if it would have mattered anyway. Cason liked the carousel, Bryce not so much. There was also a dragon spinning ride (think teacups). Cason and I went on that but we picked the dud that didn't spin so it was rather uneventful but Cason liked it anyway.

There was also a walk through area that was filled with lights and displays. It was pretty short but there were a ton of lights so the kids loved it. The trees were all lit up and some of them even changed colors.



There were also lighted snowflakes "falling".



And plenty of displays to look at along the way.







At the end as we left, there was a light tunnel to drive through. Pictures don't do it justice. The light strands were alternating being lit up so it appeared as though they were moving and we were driving at warp speed instead of just 10 mph.



The boys had a great time and loved seeing all the lights. It's still more than a week until Christmas but it has already been my favorite Christmas season since I was a kid. The kids are at such great ages to enjoy everything and get so excited for all of the little stuff.