This past Saturday we spent a wonderful day in the Woodlands. We did some Christmas shopping and then went over to the new area called Town Center that is just the neatest little patch of shops you've ever seen. As usual, I forgot to bring my camera, and after dining at Johnny Rocket's we learned that the 50' Christmas tree was going to be lit at 7:00pm. So we decide to stick around to see what else was going on.
There was a dancing/singing troupe performing all sorts of Christmas Carols and one song from Rent (don't ask me why.) There was a brass quartet called Festive Brass whose lead trumpet player played with Frank Sinatra...they played great reneditions of many classic Chrismas Songs including a Jingle Bells that was very much like the arrangement playing behind Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby (oh have a lotta fun). And there was a big choir singing carols as well.
Well, I wanted to say how much fun we had partaking of all of those festivities and since I had no camera, I thought I'd find the Woodlands website and surely they'd have pictures of this event. Much to my surprise, I see that their opening page for the "Holidays" says, "The Twelve Days of the Holiday Season."
What?
The last I heard, the song is called the Twelve Days of Christmas. I laughed to Kim and said, "On the first day of the Holiday Season my true love gave to me..." and then I clicked on their link and, no kidding, that is exactly what they've put on the site. I shouldn't be surprised, but I am. This kind of thing really makes me mad.
I should have known. Between performances at the tree lighting event the Emcee said, "Don't go away, we've got lot's more things coming up. We have a brass band and then we're going to light the tree. We have this beautiful holiday tree, uh, Christmas tree that we are going to light...
Someone else said it best: The more money people make during Christmas, the more they are ashamed at the real reason for the season.
