A McKinney Christmas – McKinney, TX

We made it to Dallas Texas for Thanksgiving this year to visit family and friends. We decided to check out “A McKinney Christmas” in the historic downtown of McKinney Texas, a fun filled three-day holiday event. McKinney is a cute little town about a 45-minute drive northeast of Dallas, it reminds me of what I think an old town back in the 50s or 60s would feel like. That small town feel. We have never been to this Christmas event and thought it was a good time to meet up with some friends and check it out. I was very surprised as to how many others decided to do the same thing. To start off their first day of holiday celebrations, at 6:15 they were doing the Christmas tree lighting, we wanted to watch that. It was packed, lots of people out enjoying the somewhat mild late November weather between down pours that were plaguing the Dallas area this week. People were out and about, eating dinner at the many local restaurants, browsing through the local shops in the square. The kids were having fun at the carnival rides and events that were set up in the side streets. They had a Ferris wheel, a carousel, a few bouncy houses, a climbing wall and a petting zoo, even some goats. The town was very nicely decorated with Christmas lights and decorations around the square. All the streets were blocked off so that you could just walk around the courthouse and enjoy the festive event. Which was a good thing since there were so many people.