I know me missed out last year. I think I had scheduled a night out with the fellas that night not knowing that it was Wassail night! Patrick and my mother-in-law took Christopher anyway, but we didn't get any pictures. This year, we carried on the tradition. This is one of those events that always seems like it will be a lot of fun prior to, but ends up being slightly over-hyped and overrated upon arrival. It wasn't all too bad really, just incredibly crowded and people tend to be more than just a little on the rude side...definitely not "in the spirit", which rubs me the wrong way, but that's neither here nor there. On a down-note, Christopher wanted to go for a walk, so he and I went trekking around "the circle" where the Christmas lighting was about to take place. It was completely dark, however, aside from the lights emanating from the storefronts windows. We tried to go around the whole circle, but there were just too many people and too many strollers and people were less than friends about "giving up their spots" to let us through, so I hiked Christopher up on my shoulders and turned around and started back the way we came. It was so dark that about half-way back, I accidentally went off of the brick-paved sidewalk and into the grass center of "the circle". I didn't realize it until it was too late and when I tried to turn back to return to the sidewalk, there was a seeming flood of people...I couldn't break back to the sidewalk that way. So we turned back around. The other thing I didn't see because of the darkness was a tree right in front of me, so when I started walking again, with Christopher on my shoulders, I ran him into the bare branches of the "invisible" tree. Two ladies saw it go down and yelled towards me that he was caught, and I stopped immediately and brought him, crying and screaming, down to my chest and we returned back to Colleen and Matthew with no more harm done. He has a couple of scrapes and dings, but he's relatively unscathed.
We ended up having a great night with the boys. Christopher got to see Santa turn on the Christmas lights there and helped everyone count-down...totally recovered from his battle with the invisible tree. Matthew initially freaked out a bit, but came to after we took him from his stroller and lifted him up to see all the lights. His eyes were as wide as saucers. We walked around Peddler's Village for a bit, bought some coffee from one of the local merchants and headed back to the car to get the boys home and to bed. Aside from the one incident, a very successful and pleasant night for all of us.
(pictured below: some of the lights from around Peddler's Village)
Pictures: Right - Colleen and Christopher
Below - Matthew and Me
Large Pictrure - Christopher donating to the Salvation Army....for a candy cane.
Bottom left -The Peddler's Village String Band playing Christmas Songs
Bottom right - Col's Family
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