Apparently Christmas is almost here. I know it must be coming soon because my wallet is hemorrhaging cash. But in the spirit of the holidays, we decided to take Clayton downtown with cousins Olivia and Casey to see the Christmas lights at Temple Square. I think it was the first time I have gone to see the lights since probably before I was in high school. We thought Clayton would like all the lights, but he was kind of tired and cold and didn't think it was such a big deal. You can get a pretty good sense of how excited he was to be there in the picture above.
All the lights are pretty elaborate, and it must take an insane amount of work to put them up. But Temple Square isn't as big as I remember it being as a kid. It was a pretty quick walk through. Mostly I just walked around thinking that wrapping lights around the tiniest tree branches is a crappy job. There are other jobs I would enjoy even less than that (like phlebotomist, Ikea assembler, or "community organizer"--whatever that is), but Christmas light hanger is right near the top of the list.We took this picture of me and Tina in Temple Square. And Tina observed that we look exactly the same in every picture of the two of us. Which is pretty true. So we've got the consistency thing going for us.
