Living Nativity

Every year since I can remember there being a Christmas, we have gone to Riverdale to the Living Nativity. It is a tradition that I remember and that I look forward to each December. We are carrying on the tradition with Colby and this year he got excited about it, too.
A local church uses the grounds around their building to re-create scenes from the Christmas story. Cars can drive through the scenes and listen to the story via a radio station in your car. It's a pretty elaborate undertaking and totally worth going to.
Cesar Augustus making the decree (please forgive the photos - they were taken from the car in the dark...)

Live camels and other appropriate animals roam around...

The city of Bethlehem. The people actually are baking bread, making candles, throwing pots on wheels, weaving blankets, doing blacksmith work, etc. Colby even got a taste of fresh baked bread from one of the merchants - yum!

You drive past an angel in the sky (really on a scissor lift) appearing above the shepherds on a hill with their flock (yes there's really a herd of sheep). I didn't get any of those pictures to turn out.

Then the grand finale - the manger scene and the choir of angels!

Me: "Colby, what was your favorite part?"

Colby: "The bread!"

Me: "The bread?"

Colby: "And baby Jesus, too!"