*Kalightoscope*

The key attraction of KaLightoscope Christmas, KaLightoscope is a landscape of larger-than-life, lighted holiday sculptures inspired by ancient Chinese art. Made of sheer, painted fabrics, each towering sculpture is enhanced by light, color and an imaginative setting. Some even reach 24 feet high!

Santa’s Midnight Flight over the World, Toyland and the breathtaking Nativity are just some of the twelve areas designed to awe and delight. Holiday music, aromas and little surprises make it an unforgettable experience for anybody. And it's all inside a temperature controlled, 16,000 square foot pavilion.

This is one of the world’s largest, life-sized Gingerbread Villages, and yes, it’s fully edible. Inside a 3000 sq. ft. area stands a 20 ft. high Gingerbread Castle, a classic North Pole Gingerbread House, Santa’s walk-through workshop, 10ft.-high lollipop trees, a photo area with Santa and hot chocolate carts.

Before & After

There will be a continuation of this post (I hope) that includes pictures of our bedroom. BUT it's currently the 'catch-all' place for anything that we can't find an actual spot for in our apartment.

The Living Room
Before


After


The Kitchen
Before


After


The Bathroom



I also got out my good camera one afternoon and took some pictures out our living room and bedroom windows:

New Apartment!

Our view during the day


Our view at night


The windows open alllll the way up...


Our first Christmas tree!


New kitty, Lila


My building

Cincinnati

Happy December!

I am officially Kristina Wallace! Finally...5 months late. I tried to go a couple months ago to get my name changed and ended up leaving after about 30 minutes and no names being called. Today it was completely different. There were only a few people there and I literally sat down in my chair and they called my number! It took 10 minutes, if that. :) I'm thinking the weather helped...it's been snowing ALL morning!

We also found out today that we got approved for our apartment! 14th floor here we come!! The official move in date is Monday, Dec 13th, but they think we may be able to get our keys and move in next Friday, the 10th!

Jobs!

11/17: I get a call from Humana and have a phone interview the same day which leads to setting up an interview on site...in person the next day.

11/18: The on site interview.

11/22 @ about 2pm: Brett calls me to tell me he just got an offer from Humana for an accounting position. -- We get excited about being able to move out/actually afford things. :)

(3 hours later) 11/22 @ about 5pm: I get a call from Humana offering me the position I interviewed for on Thursday. -- We get completely overwhelmed and excited and can't believe what just happened!


We're moving here sometime next month! It's right in the middle of downtown with awesome views (and a pool on the roof)! Aaaand we'll be able to walk to work!

This weekend was my first time alone in Louisville without Brett since I moved here! Brett's weekend consisted of this:


I actually ended up having quite a lot to do this weekend :)

Friday night I was supposed to go bowling but Jessica and I ended up staying at work until 8:00pm. Yeah, on a Friday night. We know we're lame.


Saturday, I finally made it to the bank. I don't know why but the past couple Saturdays I've been awake before noon...just have not had enough motivation to drive a mile down the road to the bank. So I finally got that done and then managed to watch 4 episodes of Nip/Tuck. I went over to Natalie's around 3:30 to check out the photo book she had made of the pictures I took of Josh's family. Then I drove to Bardstown Road to meet Jen for dinner before heading to the Roller Derby!


Today, I got up and went out to a gorgeous park to take some pictures just for fun of two sisters. It was a beautiful day except for the wind. After the pictures Brett and I headed up to Indiana for an early Thanksgiving dinner.

Our trip to The Natural Bridge was a success! It was so much fun. I absolutely love Kentucky...it's so easy to just drive off the main highway for a mile and see beautiful scenery in every direction! This was a road that we took to Lexington that basically paralleled the highway. I love the back roads though because you get to see things like this!

The fall colors in this area are gorgeous. Apparently the colors weren't as good this year as they usually are but I was still amazed.

We decided to hike the original "easy" trail up to the Natural Bridge and then take a more difficult/interesting trail back.

The bridge!

This is how you get to the top of the bridge. It was a reeeally tight squeeze.

On top!

This was the more difficult trail...Sooo glad we decided to take it back instead of up. Going down was difficult but not quite as exhausting as I would think going up them would be. These were definitely the steepest steps I've ever had to go down though

After we were done hiking we drove a couple miles to Campton to stay with some of Brett's family. I loved our room...and the first thing we saw when we looked out the window...

Their dog, Nana, had puppies three weeks ago and they were adorable!!

On Sunday morning we left Campton and drove to Paris, KY just to check it out. :)