Christmas Lights

 Those Christmas lights Light up the street  Down where the sea and city meet

May all your troubles soon be gone Oh, Christmas lights keep shining on

Widmer World

As the Holiday Season shifts from Christmas Present to Christmas Past, let's look back on some of the shimmering shining sparkly sights of the season. This season gave us the unique experience of checking out the amazing light displays in both northern and southern California.

Early on, we walked through the lights at Widmer World in Pleasanton. This has been our go to lighting fix since moving north. Sadly, last year they were closed due to Covid. So glad to see them back and bustling.

 

We visited this sparkling display just as we learned we would be moving back down south. So happy to have been able to fit in a last?!? visit!!

Victoria Gardens

Just over 24 hour back in Rancho Cucamonga, we took time to drive through Victoria Gardens to see their Christmas display. 

Greg and I went back a couple of nights later to walk through the Plaza. Just a week before Christmas, the place was filled with last minute shoppers. Shrek Santa has been replaced with the more traditional Santa while we were away. Sadly, Greg was not up for visiting Santa and giving him our list of happy thoughts for Christmas.

Lights on Thoroughbred

One of the things I missed the most during the Holiday Season up North was visiting the lights up on Thoroughbred Avenue. I loved when we were able to walk through all of the beautiful lights. They have changed their rules so that there are only a few days where walking is allow. Coming down so close to Christmas, those walkthrough days are already over. 

It took almost exactly two hours to drive the couple of miles from Baseline up the where the lights began on Carnelian Avenue. It was very much worth the wait!

 

Again, arriving just two weeks before Christmas, with moving, unpacking and normal Holiday events, there were a couple of things we missed. The Balboa Boat Parade and going through the flowery floats after the Rose Parade in Pasadena. Absolutely on the list for next year!