Originally Posted By kari12177 Have any of you been to DL for xmas. I have never been and was thinking about doing xmas there next year.
Originally Posted By Mrs ElderP DL in the Christmas season is awesome, DL on Christmas Day and the week between Christmas and New Years is insane. You better have a high tolerance for crowds!! We like the first week of December best, especially Candelight. The second week of December is also good. By the third week of December it's getting really crowded.
Originally Posted By mele I've gone to Candlelight weekend twice and it was a nightmare, crowd-wise, both times. Never again!
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains It snow's but don't taste it... yuck! we every year - last year our first for Candlelight - it was amazing - worth the crowds - it was just beautiful...
Originally Posted By mele gottaluv beat me to it. You definitely don't want to eat the snow...it's really soap foam/bubbles.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains Candlelight is a ceremony done the first whole weekend in Dec. It is a huge choir singing songs that match passages from the Christmas Story - A celebrity reads a passage and then the choir sings. Totally amazing - You can buy tickets for reserved seating that include dinner - the dinner was amazing at Steakhouse55 and we sat in front - I think those tix were $100 each (not sure as mine were comped)
Originally Posted By mele Here's some LP coverage from 2005. I've never attended the actual processional.
Originally Posted By mele Oops: <a href="http://www.laughingplace.com/Lotion-View-176.asp" target="_blank">http://www.laughingplace.com/L...-176.asp</a>
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains I should say - you don't have to do the dinners as they are pricey -- They do have other seating and standing areas.
Originally Posted By Mrs ElderP It a Christmas program. At WDW they do it every weekend in Dec, but at DL they do it only the first weekend in Dec. There is a massive choir, made up mostly of local high school students and cast members. They follow the parade route singing Christmas carols carrying candles, then arrange themselves on huge choir risers at mainstreet. Then a celebrity reads the Christmas story from the bible, pausing for the choir to sing. Once the Christmas story is read some other songs are sung and another short piece is read. Overall it's pretty religious, so if Christmas isn't that much of a religious holiday for you, I don't know how you'd like it. Christmas stuff: the "snope" on mainstreet after the fireworks. (Snow that's really soap bubbles) Special Christmas fireworks, and a Christmas Parade. Holiday decorations everywhere, including a massive tree on mainstreet. Small World and Haunted Mansion had special Holiday decorations on the inside. Special Holiday eats. (Pepermint and Pumpkin Fudge--yum!!) For the past couple of years they've had a reindeer round-up at the Woody's round-up area, where you can see real live reindeer and if memory serves, meet santa. I could be wrong about Santa, I forget. I'm sure there's other stuff, but that's what I can think of off the top of my head. Oh, you can pay extra and go to Mickey's Holiday Party some nights. I've never paid, so someone else will have to tell you about that.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains I thought the Mickey's Holiday Party was only in WDW?? Santa is in the Log Cabin along side Woody's round-up. The line gets long so get there early for that!
Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove Crowds or no crowds, I hope to be able to go someday. Music, and especially Christmas music, makes my heart melt into one big ol' puddle o' love. I'll be "home" for Christmas, if only in my dreams....
Originally Posted By smedley STiL, you had better be planning on being there to see it in '09!! Sounds fabulous
Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove I shall, my dear. Excellent idea. Goodnight, smedley. And to all, a good night. xoxo
Originally Posted By kari12177 We will be in DL this Sept, and when I catch my family having the most fun. I will bring it up about going for xmas in 2009.
