Silver Bells

One great thing about living in a small (very small) city is that when there is an event that takes place, it's so easy to maneuver even when it seems like there will be "so many people" attending. On Friday, the annual event, Silver Bells in the City took place, and it seemed a large proportion of Lansing was there. I would never really attend anything like this in my former city, ahem, Seattle, because there are so many obstacles to be able to enjoy such an event. Like parking, or too many people, or rain, or parking, or parking or parking or traffic traffic traffic. Here in Lansing, "traffic" feels like a Sunday morning (between 8am and 8:30am) in Shoreline. So getting out to downtown Lansing was a dream. And the entire city of Lansing didn't even really fill up the sidewalks, so I had a great view of the light parade wherever I was.

Silver Bells in the City is the annual ring in the holidays event. Their website indicated that there were "several reasons to brave the cold" and so we did. Light parade, tree lighting, the little shopping village (well, that was mostly just a half a block of kettle corn, but whatever), and the Bing Crosby Christmas tunes being piped through the lamp post speakers. These were all the reasons we braved the cold! Although we didn't make it to the tree lighting. I couldn't feel my feet anymore, so we left after the parade ended.

Scenes from the light parade