Your a Mean One, Mr. Grinch!

Our Christmas festivities began Saturday night with a trip to Candia, New Hampshire to Charmingfare Farm to go on a Lighted Winter Wonderland sleigh ride. We got there just in time (or so we thought) and walked to the area where the sleigh would pick us up. Along the way there was hot chocolate, an indoor petting zoo, and a huge bonfire. Once we arrived to the sleigh area we realized we had to wait. The information posted on the website and the confirmation email was quite vague about the timing of the whole thing. Needless to say it was worth the wait! We learned what to do and what not to do for next year! We got on the sleigh and rode through the farm on trails and saw all sorts of lights. They had lighted houses, trees, characters and once the ride was done they dropped us off at Santa's baby reindeer barn, where we were greeted by Frosty and Santa and his real live baby reindeer. Now I must tell you that we have watched the Grinch movie (not the Jim Carrey version, but the original) every night for at least a month. Colin is slightly obsessed, so when I read online that one of the characters we might see on the sleigh ride was the Grinch I figured we have to go! Well after waiting a while, almost losing Colin to fatigue, we were lucky enough to see the Grinch. Let's just say he won Colin over way more than Santa and even jumped onto our sleigh...then jumped off and fell into the snow which Colin thought was hysterical! It was a great start to Christmas and really put us in the spirit!