Beautiful Night, Gorgeous Lights

We had record high temperatures today, so I thought it would be a great night to see the Blossoms of Light at the Botanic Gardens. I picked Marina up after school and we went directly there. Traffic was pretty bad, so it took about an hour to get there.  Fortunately when we arrived we were able to park and get inside quickly.

We started by having dinner in the café near the entrance of the gardens. After we ate, we bought hot chocolate and started out.

As always, the lights were gorgeous. Marina loved the trees filled with purple lights and my favorite was a tree wrapped in two shades of blue lights. As we walked through, the event got more and more crowded. So we found ourselves negotiating through people.

Even though it wasn’t very cold, we still stopped for a while to sit by the fire pit – one of Marina’s favorite spots. We talked to another family for a little while before finishing up our trip through the garden. We stopped for a bit at the interactive light display. Unfortunately a large group of ids cut in front of us so Marina decided not to take a turn controlling the display.

We had an easy trip home which was a nice change from the long trip there.