Ogelbay...or bust

My husband is one of those retail warriors...so as much as I love the holidays and am a self proclaimed Little Miss Christmas...I always cringe a little because I know I wont be seeing much of my hubby. This year...he got 1 (yes, o-n-e) weekend day off the month of November & December (yikes!). So what did we do? Fled the state of course. 

Now I have always heard and seen commercials about Oglebay Festival of Lights. A whole place dedicated to christmas lights?! Sign. Me. Up.  

It is only 2.5 hours from where we live, so we figured we would leave around 3pm. We got some snacks, and packed up some games and headed on the road. 

 We guessed we would arrive around nightfall...perfect.

We got on the exit ramP at 4:20 pm. Annnnnd thats pretty much where we stayed....

for

the

next

SIX

hours

......

At first it was fun, we talked joked and were generally excited to see the lights, being that all these cars were going, it had to be cool right?!

Wrong. We finally arrived at this entrance to the park at 10:22pm (they close at 11pm)after sitting in bumper to bumper traffic (up a mountain), I was so excited picture me in the car with my santa hat rocking out to N*Sync Christmas!! This was one of the top ten destinations for Christmas lights in the county!

And then my husband and I burst into laughter.

The lights were horrible. 

We have better lights in our neighborhood at home.

This is probably the best lights we saw all night:

Brakelights.

Moral of the story: Ogelbay might be a cute place to stay, but the traffic you sit in and in my opinion the quality of the light display is absolutely not worth it. But. I can say that there is no one in the world I could spend 12.5 hours in a car with than my husband...and he was such a good sport about it!

Anyone else get stuck in this traffic?!