A couple of weekends ago, we did some more fun Christmas stuff! That Saturday afternoon we drove to Burlington for "Christmas at Glencoe Mill." Glencoe Mill is the same place I have written about in a previous post from last year when David and I visited the Textile Museum in Burlington. This little mill village offers some really cool things for this Christmasy weekend. Of course, coming from an extended family that worked heavily in the textile industry, it's all super cool for me.
We got to tour the Textile Museum as always, and even got a special tour of the downstairs area that they have restored to look like a turn of the century dwelling. So cool! Then we got to go in a couple of the old mill houses. They have also been restored and have people living in them now. SOOOO pretty!
I also got some awesome pictures around the village and the old mill. The 1800s textile mill on the Haw River is also being renovated for mixed use.
When we got back to Greensboro that evening, we went to the Living Christmas Tree, one of our favorite annual events. It is a Christmas concert held at Friendly Avenue Baptist Church, just up the street from our house. The decor and music are just beautiful!
ONE more tradition from the weekend that I wanted to mention (this was done on Friday night, before these other events that I posted). Last year David and I were riding around looking at Christmas lights a few weekends before Christmas Day. David was wearing his Santa hat, and I took a very funny looking picture of him. It was so funny that when my 90 year old grandmother saw it she burst into laughter and said, "You look like a bloomin' idiot!" Hahaha! She LOVES David, so we found it especially funny that she just came right out with this. It has continued to crack David up, so he insisted we take ANOTHER "bloomin' idiot" picture each year now. So here it is for this year. Yes, he was driving, but had pulled over for me to take this picture, thank goodness. Enjoy! :)
