Three days before Christmas, I found a red letter addressed to me on the kitchen table from "Santa." Inside was a cute Christmas card and three tickets to the Kennywood Christmas light show for the next day.
The weather was perfect. Since mid-November, a solid blanket of white has covered the ground. Then a week before Christmas, warm weather returned and all the snow melted. The night we went to the light show, it was a balmy 56 degrees. It was crowded to boot. We waited in a line for an entire hour. - This was our first time in the park and it was not a good experience overall. There were no signs to identify where to go if you already had tickets vs. buying tickets, and then several lines were closed but you couldn't tell until the massive line you were in merged with another. It was pandamoneum and people were getting rude and grumpy. It was a frustrating start to the evening.
Once we got past the turn-stile we saw things like this....
And this...
And this...
Every ten minutes two different light shows rotated. There were Christmas carolers and an ice-sculpter. I found the ice-sculpter frustrating as well. We happened to get there early to get a seat, however, people just crowded up in the very front, so if you were sitting, you couldn't see anyway. So we just left.
The rides in Kiddie-land were up and running.
Both kids were able to ride which was nice. Dylan did much better waiting in lines than he did at the carnival this summer.
Dylan really enjoyed the merry-go-round. It was a parents-free one. It seemed like he was such a big boy riding this carasel without me.
Both kids rode in the mini Ferris Wheel together.
We stopped for some snow-man pretzels and hot chocolate.
The lights were pretty, but in my opinion,I had a much better experience overall at Overly's light show, where we went last year. Overly's was really about the light displays and they had bobsled and horse-drawn carriage rides. They also had a cute little Christmas village to buy fudge and kettlecorn. They had a bonfire for marshmellows and carolers also. The lines at Kennywood were simply too long and it really wasn't about the lights, although they were numerous and pretty....it was more about the rides...and the lines for the rides were time consuming and just simply not ejoyable for me because it was so busy. If I do end up going to Kennywood again, I'll be going on a Monday when school is still in session. For the lack of effieciency I experienced, I just really don't even want to go again.
It was OK, but we'll be going to Overly's next year!
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