Blessed Christmas!

We went out for dinner on Christmas Eve and then drove out to look at Christmas lights.

One of the Williams' family traditions was to go out for steak on Christmas Eve...

... so we went to Longhorn Steakhouse...

The wall-mounted Longhorn had a mask on!

One of our friends here at Venture Out had recommended some Christmas lights in the north part of Mesa -- we weren't exactly sure where they were, so I looked at the internet for popular lighting sites in Mesa and found one that was highly recommended:

It was a townhouse that had nearly every inch lit with Christmas lights!

Since I had not found anything about a neighborhood in the Recker/202 area that our Venture Out neighbor had told us about, we decided to just drive up Recker. When we got there, we immediately saw the lights at the northeast corner of Recker and 202:

The Red Mountain Community Church had a wonderful light display with a broadcast on an FM radio station that you could listen to as you drove through.

The trunks of the trees were lit and then there were large clusters of lights in the trees as well.

There were various lit up displays and the radio broadcast gave the meanings behind the displays.

Then there was another area that we could walk through...

Lots of lights created a snowflake-like display.

Lots and lots and LOTS of lights created a light waterfall!

The video is a short part of the lights and music that played while we were in the walk-through part of the lights display.

When we got back to Venture Out, we stopped to take pictures at the entrance.

It is really pretty!

The resort had posted "official" pictures of the entrance on Facebook a few days ago:

I don't know if this is a picture from 2020 or a previous year's decorations.

Our "Christmas tree" and presents - you may notice that "Santie Claws" left a can of cat food for Miss Kitty.

We've had a great day -- our Christmas dinner came out well -- a little bit easier than Thanksgiving. Carl said that if we make this dinner 40 more times this year, we might know exactly how to make it without any problems!