lights and cutting the line

Thankfully, I took my BIL off of my email delivery list, because he doesn't like boring posts, and I am sure I will be hearing about this one eventually.

So, sorry people, you can click away if you don't want to see a few pics about something cool we did this weekend.

So we went to this big park in Albany, where they have this thing called the Holiday of Lights.  Typically, I would never pay $25 bucks to drive around a park and look at Christmas lights, but we got in for free because my husband had some sort of VIP pass or something from a client.  Gotta love the perks!

So pretty much, we rounded the punks up and hopped in the car with cups of hot chocolate, and drove to the park.  You know, for something to do on a Sunday night with the kids.  Now, before I post a couple cool pics of some of the lights, I have to just tell you about the best part of the whole thing.

I have to set the stage though.  The Holiday of Lights is kind of a big thing to do around here - even if it sounds lame.  There are like over 125 light displays and they are pretty cool.  So typically, by the time 5:45 pm rolls around (it begins at 6:00), cars are lined up at the gate and winding all the way through the park.  As you can imagine, a ton of cars rubbernecking at all of the light displays might turn this into a pretty lengthy affair.

So we were sitting in the line, because we weren't exactly sure how it all worked, and this attendant guy comes up to our car, and my husband is like, "I am Alex with blahblahblah, and we are guests of blahblahblah.  Where should we go?"

So the attendant guy says, "Follow me," and we follow him, because like, obviously.  So this guy brings us past all of the other people waiting in line and pulls this barrier away and says, "You can go ahead."

So we essentially got to butt the entire line and drive around the park at our leisure for free.

I was so excited!  I never butt.  I always wait my turn, I swear!  But the VIP-ness of it all was so cool, I couldn't help but be all excited about it.  Mind you, it was just a 25 minute drive through a light display, and cutting a line is hardly worth getting excited over.  In fact, it may be worth getting your car egged over, but it was legit, so I didn't feel guilty.  Well, sorta, but we were allowed to butt.  

So without further implicating myself as a butter, I'll share a few of the favorites:

linking to alphabethursday at Jenny Mattock's.