Christmas on the Prado #9

I think I mentioned last year how much I love Christmas on the Prado. This was our 9th time. Crazy! I absolutely love it.

In past years (as you can see in the link above) we have worn green elf hats. They are getting very thread bare, so this year I decided to step it up and make new hats. It is a lot of pressure to make a hat for Maria as she is so stylish and I wanted to make something she would like. Plus it needed to be Christmassey and not look too homemade. I was so excited with how they turned out. We tooks lots of pictures, mostly becuase I was so excited about them. Plus, Maria and I have never avoided taking pictures, and we were waiting for Gunnar to finish talking to my dad about shade structures so we could go.



Our first stop was Starbucks. Grace has a matching hat too, but Starbucks was really the only place we got her to wear it. It was really warm (notice I never needed a sweater), so I don't blame her. I was determined to wear the hat since I had just spent two days crocheting like a mad woman.
We didn't take a stroller, which was a good call since there were SOOO many people. It is much better when it rains.
Grace was trying to ride piggy back. It was pretty tough thought becuase she is so tiny she barely fits. Maybe next year.
We sat on the curb to eat our international food. Gunnar and Grace got schawarmas and Maria and I got Paella.
We went by the Old Globe theater display in honor of Gunnar's mom who is in the Globe Gilders. We saw the grinch and all the Hoo-Ville decorations.

We managed to get Grace to wear her hat for just a few more pictures.
My favorite thing is a room full of Christmas tree displays put on my the San Diego floral socity. The trees are so beautiful and unique. There was one with dried grapefruit slices that was super cool. Grace liked them too.
There are Gunnar and Grace taking a breather. Grace kind of had that shell shocked look a lot. It was either all the people/lights/noise or maybe the fact that she was too excited to take a nap earlier.
Trying to get out of the parking lot there was a TON of traffic. I took pictures of the girls in the back seat. They crack me up.




Cheers! And Let the Christmas season begin!! :)