Christmas Stroll, 2011

General feeling of Christmas cheer?  Check.
Quickly chilling cider or cocoa?  Check.
Seven layers of clothing and still frozen extremities?  Check.
Visions of draft horses and people in odd costumes?  Check.
Strains of Christmas music floating through the air?  Check.

Congratulations, you must be at Bozeman's 31st annual Christmas Stroll.  Here's some things you might see.

The Spiders.  It's not Christmas until the Christmas Spiders are up.  

Families bundled up for a chilly evening.  

This is HOW chilly.  (That's about 26F, fyi.)

Cake Boss, eat your heart out.  We have Gingerbread houses by 7 year olds. 

And sometimes we have Gingerbread Pyramids.  

People admiring the children's handiwork.  

Starting at one end of downtown Bozeman, heading to the other.  

Elves warning that Santa's home is melting.  

You can count all the different types of hats.  

There might be a carrot caroling.  

Or marshmallows roasting on an open fire.  

Or small ones hitching a ride on dad.

There's Norwegians... 

...and Bobcat fans.  (GO CATS! :)

A living Nativity Scene with a choir...

...and, of course, with animals.  

And awed children who try to pet said animals.  

You might catch a ride on a "sleigh" pulled by draft horses.  

Or run into dozens of women drumming on buckets!  (That was almost a Seuss moment.)

Some bikers sport (very little) athletic clothing...

And musical groups abound.  

All this, and more, at the Bozeman Christmas Stroll!  See you next year?