Christmas Eve at Enchant

Andrew, his family and I spent our Christmas Eve in Washington DC at a new holiday event called Enchant. "The World's Largest Christmas Maze and Market." We had a lot of fun! It was open from November 22nd through December 29th. There's also locations in Seattle and Florida, so definitely check it out next year if you're able.

It was located in the Nationals Park baseball field, so for some people being able to walk on the field was already cool enough (me, I don't do sports). The entire field is filled with fun and unique light displays set up as a maze for you to work your way through. There's also some sort of scavenger hunt for the kids, but I opted out of that, hard as it was to retrain myself. There was even an ice skating trail, if you'd rather skate your way through. It looked pretty dang festive; but the week before I attempted ice skating at the The Wharf and learned that twenty-eight year old Natalie CAN NOT ice skate, so I decided to pass on that portion of the night. Strange, how much easier it seemed when I was thirteen at an ice rink birthday party...

Not my photo! I nabbed this from the website.

Ice skating failures aside, the lights more than made up for it. Looking back, I wish I had taken more pictures to show off, but I was trying to do that whole "living in the moment," thing. So I guess the lack of pictures means I did that fairly well...except now I wish I had pictures? It's hard to find that happy medium. Anyway...it was really cool walking through all the lights, looking up at them towering over you. It was also a Christmas selfie nirvana. Trying not to bump into all the people taking pictures did get a little annoying, but I couldn't really blame them.

After you work your way through the maze, you can head up to the market. It was full of handcrafted goodies, and more importantly - warm food and drinks! They even had deep fried Oreo's, so I was definitely pleased. Near the food stands were lots of tables to sit at to enjoy your treats, while listening to a live band that was playing upbeat jazz renditions of Christmas songs.

Andrew made me wear earmuffs DON'T LAUGH AT ME or this blog is OVER (jk...maybe, best not to try, tbh)

I think everyone had a great time. Back in California my family has their own list of Christmas Eve traditions, which I was sad to be missing out on for the first time. Being out and having fun despite that really helped. Everyone is already talking about going next year, so maybe we just made a new Christmas Eve tradition.