December has been the usual busy season. I love Christmas and always get butterflies in my stomach as the season approaches. I kept on thinking to myself during the start of the month that i have been too busy with a lot of things and have not truly felt that lovely Christmas feeling yet. Christmas was fast approaching and it felt like i was in a race to finish a lot of things.
Last December 20, our family scheduled our first family Christmas activity for 2011. We parked our car in Greenbelt and trekked to the much talked about light show at the Ayala Triangle.
We got there around 6:30pm and decided to have dinner first. There's a row of nice restaurants in the area but since most people were waiting for the show, the line to get a table anywhere was pretty long. We finally got a table at Amici and had dinner until around 8:30pm. The light show ran every 30 minutes so the next one to catch was at 9pm. That was the last show for the night and was a good one to catch since the lights would stay on after the show. This meant more photo opportunities.
The waiting did not feel so long as we enjoyed the park and cool weather (as cool as it can get in Metro Manila). I have to hand it to Ayala when it comes to developing and maintaining real estate projects. The park at the Ayala Triangle was pretty well maintained considering it is public and free.
The show started at exactly 9pm and ran for about 15 minutes, i think. It was a pretty awesome show of lights and sounds.
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| The green leaf things turned into bright stars |
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| Dancing LED lights in multiple colors |
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| Touch a falling star... |
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| ...and poke your hand inside |
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| View from Ayala Avenue |
I don't know if it was the magical musical score, the blinking LED lights, or being surrounded by my family and seeing other families embrace their kids and take pictures endlessly...but i finally felt the Christmas spirit that night. As my daughter, in her favorite baby sling, rested her tiny head on my chest and as i took pictures of the rest of my family, the butterflies came. I had that nice tingling feeling in my stomach once again. Christmas is here.
Awesome.
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