When I say it was a tight week time-wise, I am not kidding. 
My 50th birthday was Thursday and it was only from 5PM-7PM we could do dinner and celebrate…

Because I really wanted to go to the Christmas Tree lighting and fireworks in the Fountain Inn Commerce Park. 

I got some yummy peppermint coffee.  There was some live music.  It was balmy and dry and festive. 

After the mayor read from the Book of Luke (really) the tree was lit and then the fireworks knocked my socks off.  They were every bit as nice as the ones in Busch Gardens Williamsburg this summer.  Just wow.

We headed back home and had some of the most amazing hummingbird cake ever.  John made it this year.