OUR VISIT TO THE PINK PIG! 12/29/2010

Today was the day we decided to get with the program and finally ride the Pink Pig.
This is Pricilla or "cilla" as Brooke calls her! :)

Pricilla, Mommy and Lindsay.

Here is a shot of the train from the line as we waited.

What the original Pink pig looked like.

Mike on the Pink Pig for the first time in about 40 years!

According to Mike the Pink Pig was WAAY better, "back in the day". He said this is obviously from a 5 or 6 year old perspective of memory.

A view from on the train.

They take you around twice for $3.00 so that's not bad. However, they try to charge an arm and a leg for the photos they take of you with Pricilla!

The ride has old pictures of what the pig used to look like. Here is one of them.

Here is the original pig snout.

The Pink Pig only runs through January 2, 2011.

Another older picture of the ride.

Brooke being a sweetie and waving to the people in line.

Lindsay and Brooke all strapped in. We ended up riding around twice, because of course they were squeamish about the first ride, but then it was "we want to ride again!"

Brooke sporting her "I rode the Pink Pig 2010" sticker.

Lindsay now happily wants a photo with Pricilla!

Daddy and the girls on the last time around.

Mike says this is exactly how the old Pink Pig used to look.

One of the signs that described who should not ride, ie...heart conditions, pregnant people etc. had a funny at the bottom it said "You should not ride this ride if you have a fear of Happy Pigs, Pork or Pork Products. :) This one made us laugh.

Mike looking like he is at Disney World! LOL! J/K honey!

"I like Cilla", says Brooke.

I get a photo of the family with their souvenirs sitting on the billboard outside which shows pics of the way it used to be "back in the day"...

The girls wanted everything in the gift shop, most things were 50% off and the Christmas ornaments were 75% off which made them 3.00 bucks. So we went ahead and bought each girl an "I rode the Pink Pig 2010" button as a last resort. Mike promised me a sweet little piggy charm for my charm bracelet to commemorate my first ride on the Pink Pig instead of me spending any more money!

The Lighting Of The Macy's Tree

Due to unfortunate circumstances of sickness we could not attend our regular holiday Thanksgiving, so we made the best of it and attended the Lennox annual Macy's great Tree lighting something that we have never done before. We had fun!
Brooke hanging out in her camp chair.

Daddy brought the chex mix!

The girls each have their own bowls and Brooke was nice enough to share with Mommy.

Here is the GREAT Macy's tree unlit.

Lindsay making her fashion statement in pearls.

Brooke is dancing with her baby.

Brooke watching the show from Daddy's lap!

Brooke standing up on daddy so she can see Pricilla the Pink pig who was walking around and waving. Brooke called her "cilla" because she could not say "PRICILLA"

Lindsay in her new Christmas sweatshirt.

What a Lindsay face!

Clapping for one of the performers.

Daddy takes a "self-portrait" shot of him and Brookie, I SO remember when that sweater fit my Lindsay!

The beautiful Katharine McPhee singing a song from her new Christmas album, that I am now dying to own.

This is how close we were to her!

Here she is singing O' HOLY NIGHT and that is the song that she lit the tree with the high note at the end.

Here is Chuck Wicks who did a pretty good job with Jingle Bell Rock.

We had Katharine right on our side every time she sang.

Here is The Macy's all Star Choir singing Carol of the Bells and they were phenominal!

Here is Bobby V. singing Santa Claus is coming to Town.

Here is SANTA on the stage with all of the dancers. The crowd and girls went WILD when Santa came out!

WAHOO! Merry Christmas! The tree is lit and the fireworks were incredible!!

Brooke did not like the fireworks one bit!

The whole thing was so beautiful. I really enjoyed the fireworks and so did Lindsay!

My big girl Lindsay is feeling SO much better now!

The girls' really wanted to get their photo with Pricilla the Pink Pig.

Mommy and her girls!! :O)

Me trying to live out my MACY's dream vicariously through this balloon!

The girls' and I with Priscilla the pig. We are going to try to find time to take them to ride Priscilla one day soon. Which is an Atlanta past time that all children do apparently. I did not grow up here so it's new to me. My husband has told me he rode the pink pig many times as a child.

Here she is all by herself. We took this photo for our friends at JD's BBQ

One last photo of the Macy's tree!

After we did the potty thing and took all the photos we went back to the van and we had a little fun with some of our left over fireworks from July 4th, but we only let the girls do the snap pops instead of the sparklers so we would not get in trouble.