When we found out they were going a tree lighting downtown we just had to go.
My husband and I only moved to this area about 3 months ago and we still feel like tourists.
We hadn’t really been downtown yet so we dressed up in our warm clothes and made a day of it. There was so much to do and see. We ended up walking over 9 miles all around the city. The only downside was that it was so cold. We are not used to such a cold climate. We would go into the strange shops and places just for a change to warm up a bit. Thankfully, every shop had a good working furnace and it would get us just warm enough to brave going back outside again. As the day wore on, it got harder and harder to pull ourselves away from the warm stores and back out into the freezing streets though. To make matters worse, most of the stores started closing up after the tree lighting. Then it got really dark and kind of scary. We finally made our way back to our car and headed for home. It took 20 minutes before the heater worked in the car though. An hour later, we were home and warming our frozen bodies in front of our own heater vents and swearing that we were never going back outside again. It took me hours for my toes to thaw out again. We clearly need some warmer clothes if we ever do plan on walking around in this cold again. Our southern bodies are just not used to these northern winters.
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