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At the St George temple, the day after Thanksgiving, is the annual Christmas lighting ceremony.  Several organizations and, obviously, the church, get together and have some choirs sing, have a couple of speakers and then light all of the thousands of lights on the temple grounds.

Surprisingly, a lot of people show up for this annual event in St George.  All types of people.  This is only a very small portion of the crowd.

We couldn't get a good view of the speakers so had to walk around the backside to get close to them.  It was the typical St George evening.  Probably around 60 degrees.

 

There were seats there but we had to get there a lot earlier in order to get any of those.  Far more people than seats.  I guess this is a really big deal in St. George.

 

The Visitors' Center was open and all of the lights are on.  We clean here on Thursday nights.  They have lights all over the temple grounds.  Nothing spectacular but just pretty.  Just the outskirts of the temple grounds. 

  

One morning as I was walking between the buildings over at the ROC, I glanced over at the temple and saw this beautiful sunrise.  We get there pretty early and sometimes are treated to beautiful pictures painted for us before the day starts.  We have some very early starters at the ROC so I usually try to open things up for them.  We can now see the temple because most of the leaves from the trees have fallen.  Well, there are a few left but most are gone.  

 

With most of the leaves gone now, we can actually see the temple from our apartment door in the mornings as we walk over to the ROC.  We w=should be able to see it a td bit better in a couple of weeks when everything has fallen.  

 

I saw this in a custom brewed soda rack at an Albertson's store here in St George.  There are River City's in all parts of the US so I just had to check it out.  Yep, it was brewed in Sacramento, CA.  No, I didn't buy it as, well, I just didn't.  I'll get it next time we are in the store.  They have a lot of sodas in that store.   I'm not all that crazy about plunking down nearly $2 for a bottle of soda.  But it was good to see something from hometown, USA.