Day 80

Be ready, this post is going to be very picture heavy.

Every year on the weekend after Thanksgiving, my mom and I go to the Craftsmans' Christmas Classic (CCC) in Greensboro, NC.  It is perfect.  It's a day for Mom and I to spend just the two of us.  We get up early in the morning so that we can be there right when it opens.  There's hundreds of vendors with things from cream cheese dips to pottery to hand-carved and hand-crafted everything!  Unfortunately, I won't be home for Thanksgiving, which means no CCC for me :'( for the first time in I don't even know how many years.  But don't worry.  There is good news.  There is a similar thing up here in Boston and it's called the Boston Christmas Festival.  The downside: it's before Thanksgiving.  So I went to it today, in search of that perfect Christmas present that I always find at the CCC.  There was also a gingerbread house contest going on.  So here's some pictures of some crazy awesome gingerbread houses:

 I didn't find the perfect Christmas present for anyone and CCC is much better than the Boston Christmas Festival, but I did come away with one good, and oh-so-adorable purchase for me.