Last year for Christmas, Carrie gave me 1 date a month for 12 months.
This year we’ve gotten to do lots of fun things like a night for a German game called “Mensch Aergere Dich Nicht” (a game like Sorry), and floating rubber Ducks down the Cherry Creek river!
December’s date was to go and look at Christmas lights.
But there was a twist – it was a Christmas Lights Scavenger Hunt!
Christmas Lights Scavenger Hunt
Here is the list of items that was to be discovered:
- Candy Cane
- Rudolph
- Life-sized Santa
- The Griswalds
- All One Color
- Gingerbread Man
- Deflated Inflatable
- Nativity Scene
- A Reference to the 12 Days of Christmas
So off we drove, hot chocolates in hand, to our Christmas Lights Scavenger hunt.
We found Candy Canes (in Plentitude)
A Life Sized Santa
The Griswalds (super decorated house) take 1
The Griswalds (super decorated house) take 2
Deflated Inflatables (Yes, I did ring the doorbell and ask the man to unplug his inflatables)
Christmas Nativity
A Definitive Rudolph
All One Color (Take 1)
All One Color (Take 2)
All One Color (Take 3) – Backup in case we didn’t find any others
Possible Reference to the 12th Day of Christmas
We also found what I would call “Christmas Oddities”
The Christmastime Burning Bush
Christmas For Texans Now Living In Colorado
Frosty the Cow/Snow Boy/Man
The Great Christmas Apple
Christmas Rex
Paratrooper Elves and Helichopper Santa (Complete with spinning rotors)
Chrookie Monstermas
And… ummm… what’s this guy sitting on?
The message didn’t self-destruct.
That’s because we found *almost* everything on the list (Gingerbread Man still yet to be discovered – I guess Gingerbread Men run as fast as they can, so we couldn’t catch them).
We also had to do some finagling to get the man to deflate his inflatables for us, but it was a good time for sure!
Thank you for a wonderful December date, Carrie!