Enchanted

The city of Dallas puts on a festival of lights each year in Fair Park called Enchant. It’s a giant display of Christmas lights and oversized ornaments. It has a maze of lights, ice skating, a food and artisan village, and visits with Santa Claus.

We decided to check it out while my mom was in town. We invited Troy’s girl friends too, but neither could make it. The worst part was the number of people. We stood in line for half an hour just waiting to get through security. Then, we fought the crowds of people everywhere we went. We couldn’t even find a table to have some food. Luckily, a nice family let us sit with them.

We didn’t do the ice skating or shop at any of the vendors. We spent the majority of the time in the maze, which was pretty cool. They had different sections with different themes. So you could walk through lighted tunnels with dangling lights, high five a giant lighted T-Rex, gape in awe of the myriad of giant lighted ornaments, stand inside a massive lighted Christmas tree, or interact with a dozen huge lighted toys. In case you missed it, there were lights…lights…and more lights.

But Troy’s favorite part wasn’t any of that. To our immense surprise, he thoroughly enjoyed the sausage on a stick. He attacked that thing with the ferocity of a half-starved wolf. And somehow, he still had room to eat most of the funnel cake we procured too!

Troy spent the majority of the time on my shoulders, so he could both reach more things and look around without having to worry about bumping into people or things. Other than carrying 45 lbs around all night, it was nice for me too, so I could enjoy all of the sights instead of constantly wondering where he was.

All in all, I’m not sure it was worth the money. It was a nice experience once, but I’m not sure I’d do it again. There wasn’t really enough for kids to do.