okay, okay the 5th day...

giving gifts 12 days in a row is harder than it sounds... i mean, i could have just followed the song and given those gifts but where would be the fun in that? also, i don't think Steve would have liked me spending the money on turtledoves, etc.

on the 5th day i took my true love to austin java AND to the trail of lights AND on a great shuttle ride on capital metro. footage of that to be added later. i honestly prayed i would find his gift along the way, feeling the pressure to keep this going. and with the eagle eye awareness of our great friends Rick and Michele Jacoby, i did.

gift on day 5: a multi-Christmas song performance by the Clickety Cloggers under the stars along the trail of lights.

i would have walked on by, eager to get to the yule log and some sort of warmth, but no... and if my hands had not been frozen in my mittens you would probably see a picture that was taken with care instead of this. but really no still photo could embrace the joy, the ecstasy of these cloggers. i mean look at how captive their audience is. i will never forget you, woman clogger with the red hair. as Michele so adequately put it: you really have to not care what anyone thinks about you if you're going to clog. good job!

coming up day 6, while it is still called today. i have until midnight.