Glendale Glitters

On Saturday night Jenna and I went downtown to Glendale Glitters  (check out the link).  It is the kick-off to the Christmas season here in Glendale.  The city decorates the downtown in over 1.5 million Christmas lights and has live entertainment, food, and all sorts of other activities.  It is similar to the Toledo Zoo's Lights Before Christmas but free-of-charge, without the animals, and a lot warmer.  The temperatures were in the mid-to-low 60's on Saturday night when we went.  It is a huge event in Glendale that draws hundreds of thousands of people downtown.  As always, I had my trusty camera with me and snapped a few photos of the festivities.  

First, I decided to avoid trying to drive and park downtown and take the free shuttle busses.  This was the line at Glendale Community College as we were waiting to board the shuttle busses to take us downtown.  Surprisingly, there were enough shuttle busses running that we only had to wait about 5 minutes to get on a bus:

And once we made it downtown we were instantly greeted with the spectacle of lights:

We were able to make it to the upper levels of the municipal building to get a birds-eye view of the live entertainment and the crowds gathered below to watch in the downtown amphitheater.  The mini-Mickey mouses were performing a Christmas song on stage in this photo (I think...):

So what do you decorate in the desert for Christmas?  Why a palm tree of course!  I think it looks quite nice :-)