First Night

We were really excited to go to First Night with the kids, downtown. We took the smaller stroller, hopped on the bus, and rode up with several other families from the area. We got to see The Asylum Street Spankers sing from their children's album, including the title song "Mommy Says No!" the first "hard-core punk rock" children's song. It was awesome! I missed "Boogers" because Elena needed to use the bathroom, but I loved "You Only Love Me For My Lunchbox," and "Superfrog" was great too. It was at about this time that we realized that Jonathan had taken the camera out of the diaper bag to show his mom something, earlier in the day, and it hadn't made it back in. Oops... I'm trying to dig up pictures online for you, though. Anyway, after the Spankers, we got to see the giant black-eyed pea, and the huge jackalope. We drew chalk pictures on the pedestrian bridge, cruised the food vendors (no corndogs?!?), watched the parade and counted down to fireworks with the Mayor. It wasn't one of the better displays, I have to admit. We knew it was the smaller of the evening, but still. We had a great time chatting with people on the bus back home, and the kids were in bed well before 10. At midnight, we stepped outside to watch the spectacular display the neighbors (at least 5 families on two different streets) were putting on. You gotta love crazy Mexicans with a ton of small explosives. It totally made up for the weak display at City Hall. All in all, it was fun, clean, and a nice hassle-free evening.

Happy New Year, everyone!!!



(pictures are from the Statesman)