Downtown

Every year on the second Saturday in December, my mom’s family goes downtown to Philly to see all of the attractions they have for the holiday season. We have been doing it since all of us cousins have been little. And no one hated each other. But it is still a fun thing to do and now I can bring Jul with me so I finally have someone to walk with! But he has never been downtown and last year’s was all mixed up. So he didn’t get to see everything that we normally would do.  Normally, we meet up at Macy’s and have breakfast and wait for everyone to get there. My family is always late. Then when everyone arrives, we go upstairs and walk through the Charles Dickinson Christmas Carol. Then we watch the light show and go eat. We used to go to Bertucci’s every year, but the one downtown closed down. So now we go to Maggiano’s- a little bit more high class and expensive.  After we eat, we take a walk over to the “huge” Christmas tree. Now that I’m older, it is not huge at all. But being a young kid, you think it is the tallest tree in the world. We go to some other places too, but those ones hold the best memories. Not as many people go anymore, but it’s always my favorite part of the holiday season. And sometimes less people is more fun.