Home for the Holidays - USA 2014

 Our time in the states over the past 2 months has been really fun and really busy.  It has been especially fantastic to spend the holidays with my family and have a white Christmas!  I thought I'd post a few pictures of fun things we've done in the last few weeks.
We went to Bentleyville in Duluth.  It is a huge walk-through Christmas lighting display village.  It is free to go there, and they give out hot chocolate, cookies, marshmallows to roast, and popcorn (and we tried them all!)  We went on a night that wasn't too cold, I think it was actually just above the freezing point.  I'm glad we went when it wasn't any colder because after an hour of walking around, even being all bundled up, we were freezing.

 We took a self-guided Christmas tour of Glensheen Mansion in Duluth.  There was a tree in pretty much every room.  We walked around the grounds outside and down to the boathouse on Lake Superior after the inside tour.  JP was happy to see a lot of books in French on their many bookshelves.

 Here is JP perched upon a gigantic Belgian horse.  It was his first time ever being on a horse!  We got to go on a sleigh ride over the fields and through the woods just north of Duluth.  The horses wore jingle bells. :)