Longwood Lights

Have you missed Longwood? It's been like, a month. Or more! We missed it, too, so we were happy to have Grandma and Grandpa come down for the express purpose of going to Longwood to see the lights. It's my favorite time of year there. Minus the crowds of people...

While it was still light out, we stopped by the trains. Which now have lights on them. Fun!

Dex, Daddy, and Grandpa check out Thomas the Train, til Dex got bored and decided he'd rather go see six trains running on the other set of tracks.

Inside the nice warm main conservatory, with the big gold Christmas tree

The big gold tree

Poinsettia galore in the conservatory

Dex with Grandma and Grandpa in front of the tree in the new conservatory

Hmmmm. Dex and I will have to come back some morning to get some better shots. New conservatory.

We ended our time inside at the Children's Garden

Running wildly after the traveling water, cackling with glee. We kept giggling as parents walked by with their kids, warning them not to touch the water and get wet, because they would be cold when they went outside. We know better. We come prepared.

He was so focused on the water that he ran head-on in to another kid his size, banging heads.

I made the boys sit still for a second for a cute shot

After a change of clothes (wet child, too much splashing) we headed outside to see some lights. John always likes the pretty blue trees.

The main fountain garden is all lit up

Pretty white lights. Longwood went green this year - 100% LED lights. That's got to be quite the up-front investment.

Some cute multi-colored tree trunks by the Tree House

The red trees are always striking

We went to a fountain show, which Dexter LOVED. He wanted MORE MORE MORE when it was done. Here's a few billion shots from there. I kind of watched the show through the lens of my camera. It was still good that way.

Very cool, right boys?

PS - If you want to see all 200 photos from Longwood, and a quick video of Dex chasing the traveling water around, see this link.