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Downtown Rochester Lights

So last night – Pete and I headed to Downtown Rochester for the Festival of Lights and Lagniappe.  Lagniappe stands for a little something extra.  If you go shopping that evening (which we didn’t) each store gives out a little something extra.  We go to see the official lighting of downtown.

Each storefront has these entire sheets of lights, and at 7pm, they do the official lighting.  It’s really spectacular.  We just love it.  Then everyday at 5pm, they light up downtown until sometime in January.  This pictures doesn’t do the scene justice, but it really is quite beautiful.

So what has everyone been up to?  In November we celebrated our 5th Wedding Anniversary.  We took a weekend trip to Chicago and had a fantastic time.  We ate a some wonderful resturants – Heaven on 7th, Roys, Billy Goats, and went to the Art Institute.  The rest of the time we spent wandering around Michigan Ave and other streets.  It was such a beautiful and relaxing weekend.  We loved it.

Pete spent most of the month traveling.  He spent a week in Chicago for a training for work, then a week with My Step-father, Uncle and some buddies Pheasent Hunting in S. Dakota, then a week in Evansville working out of their office.  So we didn’t see each other much.  But overall it was quite productive!

We spent Thanksgiving Day with my mother’s side of the family. Somewhere around 30 of us in my Grandmother’s home with a fantatstic fest, Trivial Pursut (The origional Version) and Euchere!  It was fun.  Then we had My Dad, Step-Mom, Grandmother, Aunt, Uncle and their 2 kids to our home on Saturday.  I cooked a fantastic Turkey with Port Gravy, Cornbread Stuffing and had tons of other food.  It was a really good time.  Sunday was spent relaxing.  We took a quick trip to the mall, then Pete played video games while I napped on the couch.  We got about 3-4 inches of snow (LOVE IT), and have had flurries ever since.  It really is quite beautiful. I just love Winter!!!

Okay – back to work!!!