Cold, tired but had a little fun too

[peternap]

After going to the funeral home and taking care of a few details for my neighbor, Jane and I went to Williamsburg for the Grand Illumination.

Near froze my butt off but it was awe inspiring. There were 148000 people there by ticket sales and the town isn't very big.

They had 3 unbelievable fireworks shows going at the same time.

I took over 800 pictures but here are a couple:

[Homegrown Tomatoes]

Nice pics, Peter.  Looks like it would've been fun even if cold.

[Whitlock]

Wow fireworks in december

[MountainDon]

...Williamsburg...  Grand Illumination.

All right, I could Google that but then I'd be the only one here with the answer... what is the Grand Illumination in celebration of, Peter?  Sure appears grand.

[peternap]

It's the official start of the Christmas season for Colonial Williamsburg, Don.

[glenn kangiser]

hmm There goes my theory about the Illuminati...