2014 Washington Monument Lighting!

Hi!

Tonight was the 43rd Annual Holiday Monument Lighting at the Washington Monument, which is just a few blocks south of our apartment!  It is put on by the Downtown Partnership of Baltimore and it started as a small celebration and has grown into a huge event!  Here's a video about it I saw on Facebook yesterday.

When Alex got home from school, we walked down there to see what was happening!  It took place mostly in the West Mt. Vernon Square and there were tons of vendors lining both streets!

This hardly shows it, but there were food trucks and booths, people giving out candy canes, mittens, and glow sticks, lots of places with hot drinks, performances on the stage, and even a booth where you could take pictures with Santa! :)  

The photos were by Pixelated Photo Booth, which I wrote about here the first time I went to CreativeMornings.

When we first got there it wasn't super crowded or cold but the later it got, the more people there were and the colder it was!  There have been protests around the city the past week or two and there were some protestors during the event and also marching up our street once we were home again.  

We got pizza at one of the booths and finished it right before they lit the monument and set off fireworks!  It was a great show!  The monument looks so pretty with all of the lights on it :)

We walked home pretty much right after show ended because we were so chilly!  We're warm now and watching Peter Pan Live :)

Speaking of CreativeMornings, the next one is tomorrow morning!  I'm excited!  It sounds like it's going to be another great one.

Thanks for reading!