Longwood Gardens

Good evening everyone! Looks like we have almost made it through Tuesday! Yesterday went by in a blur. Like I said in yesterday's post our weekend was full of events, so while sleeping in on Monday was probably what the Dr. ordered, it didn't/couldn't happen.

Our "weekend" events started on Thursday night last week. As some of you locals may know Longwood Gardens has an amazing light show every summer and it ends next week. While it was on our list of things to do, we never found time to go over the summer and since the show was ending we knew we would have to go or we would miss out! So we booked tickets online for Thursday night [it sells out quickly so this is a must].

On the way, we took a little detour over to Woodside Creamery, a local ice cream spot with the most amazing treats! I had a sugar cone with the most decadent black raspberry ice cream and Matt got peach. Both flavors were great, but mine was so better than his, which never happens!! Don't worry I was nice and I shared!


[Woodside Creamery]

From there we headed strait to Longwood Gardens and were filed into one of the few remaining parking spots. We had hoped to arrive by 7:00, but we were running late and were only heading to the entrance at 7:40. We had also planned to have dinner at the gardens, the problem with that was the restaurant closed at 8:00 and a small ice cream cone does not qualify as dinner for me! So we ran over to the restaurant directly from the gate with 20 minutes to pick out our food and eat it in time to make it over to the fountain show. Fortunately, we up for the challenge and managed gobble down our food in time to get a good spot with only a few shoulders away from the prime viewing area for the show.


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The show way beautiful. It was a half our light/fountain show set to Rachmaninoff: Power and Passion. It was incredible how lights, water, and music were able to evoke so many emotions.

As time went by some of those shoulders that were blocking our view before left and we were left with the best view in the house for the final 5 minutes!

After the show was over we strolled through the park and looked at all of the other light displays. They were absolutely incredible!


[Forest of Lights]

By the time we had looked at all the displays it was 10:30 [well past my bed time, especially on a school night!!].

Well worth the trip, but I think next time I would try and get there a little earlier or have dinner beforehand, but that was just bad planning on our part! The show itself was spectacular!