The Seattle Lantern Light Festival

There's a new light show in town this year, The Seattle Lantern Light Festival.  It's a bit of a misnomer as the venue is in Puyallup.  Puyallup Lantern Light Festival doesn't quite have the same ring to it though.  Anyway, to celebrate the solstice and our anniversary this year, we attended the festival.  It's a bit different from the other light shows in the area  but was lots of fun.  

The Space Needle with Seattleites, easily identified because they don't have umbrellas, they're looking for a Starbucks,  and their skin appears green from the moss growing on them.

The signs by every display were entertaining.

A four-hundred foot dragon.

That's a lot of happiness. 

It makes me tired just thinking of all the work it takes to put these together.

Thirty-foot panda.

So many huge walk-through lanterns. 

The trunk of this tree is one of the fair rides. 

 There were all sorts of things for kids to do like play in this dragon bouncy house, walk through the Forbidden City maze, mine for emeralds, play miniature golf, and ride dinosaurs.

There were a number of vendors selling and creating Chinese artwork.

One of my favorite things was the way they'd lit the wooden roller coaster supports. 

Something for Danger.

Spring Festival.

 Bamboo Shoots for Alan.

There were Chinese acrobats and other entertainment on the stage every hour and fireworks on New Year's Eve.

All in all an enjoyable way to spend an evening.  If you'd like to attend, the festival will stay at the fairgrounds until January 14.

For more information on this show, look here. For more about the company that does these shows, look here.