[aletarw]

I had out-of-town visitors and took them to the tree lighting at Lake Sumter. It was very disappointing. I've never been before and maybe my expectations were too high. The vendors were great, but the actual tree lighting was very anticlimactic.

In order to improve it
• they could have had something like sing-along music just prior to the actual lighting, which would engage the audience
• by considering the presence of children who get bored with opera/symphony music
• giving the audience heads-up when the tree lighting is going to occur so they won’t go away and miss it

It turned out to be a very dissapointing anti-climatic event.