holiday lights and miami hurricanes

today stella's preschool class took a field trip and i was a chaperone. we all walked many blocks from their school to the hyatt regency, downtown SF. it was quite cute with all the little ones hanging onto their "rings" and walking two by two down along the streets of downtown san francisco. we passed the hall of christmas trees and lights in One Market plaza, and checked out the ice skaters at the embarcadero center... then we made it to the hyatt where we rode a glass elevator up and down 17 floors - like our own personal 6 flags ride! we ran into the miami hurricanes football players, who were staying at the hotel for their bowl game this week against Cal. the thousands of lights hung from the 17th floor all the way down to the lobby were gorgeous and the elaborate holiday displays with trains, planes, santas, reindeer, "snow", christmas trees, cars, people, etc. were quite fascinating for our group of 3 year olds!
they did a great job walking back and never whined about their little feed being tired - until we got back to school and they all needed a rest...