Lights!

 One of my most favorite things about the Christmas season is getting to see all the warm and cozy lights everywhere. (I also love it when people don't take them down immediately after Christmas, so I can continue to enjoy some extra sparkle and twinkle on those long, dark, cold winter days in January and February!)

Because of our schedule, it hadn't worked out for us to go looking at lights yet this year (sadness!) so Saturday night, after we finished all our grocery shopping and such, we drove around Fort Wayne, looking at lights. I'd actually seen a list of some of the best-of-the-best residential light displays, so we just plugged in those 10 or so addresses and drove around!

(Fort Wayne does have the Fantasy of Lights display in a park, and we did drive through it the year we came to Fort Wayne for our anniversary trip, but we didn't go this year. I've heard the lines are long, ,and we didn't have time enough to do both that night.) 

But here! Take a look at some of the other fun we had!

We got gift cards to Common Grounds from Gateway Woods at the Christmas party, so we stopped in before we left town and got ourselves some Christmas coffee:

Then we did a couple of Christmas shopping stops, and as we headed to get our groceries, we made an impromptu stop at Wendy's. I honestly can't even remember the last time we had Wendy's! I feel like it was still warm weather! October, maybe? September? That's crazy because it is one of our most ever favorite fast food stops.  

Before he ordered at the drive-thru, Ryan asked if their dining room was open (we hadn't seen anyone in there when we drove in) and they said yes! I'm fairly certain we haven't eaten INSIDE a Wendy's since February. Around here, anyway, though most sit-down restaurants have a partial capacity, the only fast food restaurant we've seen allowing dine-in is Culver's. So this was a huge occasion! We sat in there by ourselves and dined away!

It was as good as we had remembered. ;)

Then it was off to grocery shop for ourselves and for the WillowBridge Christmas - and then we could go look at lights! I'll share a few of the pictures I snapped from the car. 

See Santa peeking out the window?

And now...Christmas is a little more complete!