Turner Tradition

In honoring a Turner tradition that we have been doing for the last 4-5 years during the Christmas season, we took a trip to East Peoria to see the Festival of Lights. We picked Brandon up from school and headed up to Peoria on Friday. We started off at the FOLEPI's Village where the kids got to play some games and ride some rides and Santa was there with one of his reindeer!

From there we headed to Avanti's Restaurant for dinner until it was nice and dark to go see the Festival of Lights Winter Wonderland. Brandon and I had the Gondola sandwiches, which are our favorites! (Special thanks goes to Tim Britton for introducing the restaurant to us!)

After dinner, we drove back to FOLEPI's Village and watched while they attempted to inflate a hot air balloon in the parking lot and then headed off to drive through the lights. The pictures don't do it justice. It is a great time and there were a lot of new displays this year. Looking forward to doing it again next year!