Silver Bells

In case you haven't figured it out by now, it is definitely Christmastime in the city! In addition to the various tree lighting ceremonies, I've also been to these fun holiday activities:

Stake Christmas concert. Turns out we have a REALLY talented stake. I was a little surprised when I saw the length of the program, I was expecting an hour of calm Christmas carols. But they went all out, it was 2 hours of both calm and fun Christmas carols- even the Grinch was included.


The looooong program. Good thing it was all good!

Elf Extravaganza. These girls are impressive- in addition to watching Elf (one of my holiday favorites!), we ate the four basic food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corn, and syrup. They crafted the 7 levels of the Candy Cane Forest out of candy canes and truffle cake pops, the Sea of Swirly Twirly Gumdrops out of gumdrops (of course!), and the Lincoln Tunnel out of Rice Crispie Treats. So Fun. In addition we also had spaghetti with syrup (they made up these spaghetti and egg quiche thing so it was edible- wasn't too bad actually!),  Funfetti buddies (like muddy buddies but with funfetti- yum!), and lots of candy.

Countdown. Guess what? I am excited to come home for Christmas!!! (No, I am not ready to move back yet!) So when you have no paper or anything crafty, this is what you get for your countdown:

 

Holiday Window Strolling. You have to go look at the department store windows if you're in NYC for the holidays. Of course. We started our little stroll at Macy's (which were some of my favorites- just because they were about Christmas in NYC :).

 



Stewart/Davis kids- remember re-enacting the escalator scene from Elf while we were at Macy's?

 

After Macy's we made our way to 5th Ave, which we followed until we reached Central Park. Here are some of the highlights:

Lord & Taylor. My other favorites.



New York Public Library. One of my favorite buildings. . . it just happened to be on the way :)



Saks.

Bergdorf Goodman. Crazy cool windows, but not very Christmassy.

 

 

As promised, I made it back to Rockefeller Center for pictures of the tree from the front view. . .