For the second year, the Brig filled up their parking lot with snow and let kids more accustomed to boogie boards and sand fly down the icy, snow covered hay bales that stood in for the real sliding hills that these kids have mostly never seen.
Carolers belted out a catchy tune about Christmas on Abbot Kinney, the food trucks rolled in - as usual, they covered up the infamous Brig camel-toe with a bow for the occasion ...
... there was a little holiday craft area for kids ...
... and the cutest, happiest Santa Claus ...
... listened as the kids made their toy requests and pulled on his beard.
Neighbors stopped and talked, shoppers juggled their bags and their coffee cups, dressed up dogs went on a parade up and down the boulevard ...
and wound up back at Robin's Sculpture Garden for music and aerial circus fun.
Fun, in fact, was the entire day's m.o., and it was evident everywhere you looked.
Michelle the Elf greeted you at the decked out Zingara, where we popped in to get some apple cider and look at all the great gift ideas. Firefly, Ananda, Huset, and Principessa were also tied for trying to kill me with cuteness the most. Most of the shops were decorated by now for the Season, and added to the festive atmosphere with their twinkling lights as the sun set ever earlier.
These magical times fly by in the hustle and bustle of trying to get everything done, and it's days like this that remind us to stop and enjoy it all, and indeed have some FUN.
As I stood on the corner and looked at it all going on around me, I stopped and thought the thought that I so often do ... I love Venice.
Happy Holidays!! May they be merry and bright wherever you are.
Lovely as always:) xxoo
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