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Festival of LightsNov 8, 2014
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We all enjoyed this beautiful display of lights...
We drove through the Branson Festival of Lights Drive-Through today. It was a one-mile drive along a path illuminated with more than 175 displays. The theme was "The Twelve Days of Christmas" a cumulative song, meaning that each verse is built on top of the previous verses. The lights represented each of the twelve verses, each describing a gift given by "my true love" on one of the twelve days of Christmas. I managed to get pictures of each of them, some are better than the others. The first three verses run, in full, as follows:
On the First day of Christmas my true love sent to me
a Partridge in a Pear Tree.
On the Second day of Christmas my true love sent to me
Two Turtle Doves
and a Partridge in a Pear Tree.
On the Third day of Christmas my true love sent to me
Three French Hens, Two Turtle Doves
and a Partridge in a Pear Tree.
Subsequent verses follow the same pattern, each adding one new gift and repeating all the earlier gifts, so that each verse is one line longer than its predecessor:
4 Calling Birds
5 Golden Rings
6 Geese-a-Laying
7 Swans-a-Swimming
8 Maids-a-Milking
9 Ladies Dancing
10 Lords-a-Leaping
11 Pipers Piping
12 Drummers Drumming
Branson is the perfect place for us at Christmas, they start celebrating the day after Halloween. :-) We loved it and hope you enjoy seeing all the pictures. Check back later for more from Branson.