Monday, November 10, 2008

Shipshewana Christmas Lighting

We recently went down to Shipshewana, Indiana for their Christmas Lighting festival.
It was a funfilled night starting with supper at the Blue Gate.
The kids favorite meal here is the fried chicken drum sticks with fries. And we all love the fresh made bread, apple butter and Amish peanut butter they serve!Waiting for the parade of lights to start... birr! It was cold!!! But it didn't rain or snow - thank you Lord!

My attempts at taking pictures in the dark...


After the parade of lights everyone gathered on main street for carols, prayer and the lighting of the town.
It was so amazing... the whole town coming together to sing hymns, traditional and spiritual Christmas carols & to pray together. There was a live nativity, and a huge tree that lit up, as well as all the buildings in town. The kids were so excited. There was tons of candy, free hot coco & coffee... just a really amazing atmosphere. We are so blessed!

1 comments:

Irene said...

That sounds like so much fun, don't you wish you could live in a town like that? If we ever get out to Michigan, please take us there!