Warm and Toasty Parade of Lights

Denver's Parade of Lights is this weekend, but with temps predicted to be 12F (-11C) we'll be staying home this year. That's OK, we got to see Tempe's parade of lights while we were in Arizona! And it wasn't cold at all.

Settled comfortably into our lawn chairs under the Christmas-light-bedecked palms, picnicking on Mexican food, listening to the nearby water feature, it was a pretty plush way to watch a winter parade. Next to the water fall were giant bronze bunnies that all the kids got excited about.
Wait! You guys aren't looking at the camera and Oscar-dog is hiding... Let's try that again.
Hmmm. Bad night for portraits I guess.

Better night for trippy light sabre shots. No parade of lights is complete without a light up toy, and Uncle Q and Aunt Karen picked out a flashing-star-mini-sword thingy for FFM. After he figured out he could 'make rainbows' with it he was much more excited about it. There was a lot of rainbow making, right up until the first giant fire truck kicked off the parade.

Of course at the end of the parade Santa arrived, and I think for the first time FFM put it all together and now suspects that the guy in the big red suit is up to something very very good...