Our Visit to the "Garden of Lights" in Maryland

Rob, Tom, Desiree and Lyle

On Saturday night we joined our friends Lyle and Desiree for a great dinner and walk through a festively decorated county park in an event called "Garden of Lights."  In this blog you'll see pictures of it and find out it's a pretty cool place to go to get in the holiday spirit if you live in the Washington, DC metro area (on the Maryland side). 

We kicked off the evening with a great dinner at Lincoln BBQ in Silver Spring, MD. If you're looking for good BBQ, it's a good place to go. Now, on to the Garden of Lights! 

The gardens are lit up

WHAT IS IT? Garden of Lights, Brookside Gardens’ holiday outdoor light exhibit, celebrates its 19th season as a Baltimore/Washington, DC area family holiday tradition!
WHERE: The Brookside Gardens are public gardens located within Wheaton Regional Park, at 1800 Glenallan Avenue, Silver Spring, Maryland.

Lyle sitting a desk in outdoor classroom set

ABOUT IT: The park was illuminated with more than one million dazzling colorful lights shaped into hand-crafted, original art forms of flowers, animals and other things like mushrooms, storm clouds and rainbows!  There was also a classroom display with little school houses and desks outside (where Lyle took a seat for a picture). 

Tom, Lyle and Desiree

MODEL TRAINS! inside the Conservatory to enjoy watching G-Scale model trains wind through a seasonal landscape. A

DATES/TIMES: 11/25/2016 to 01/01/2017
Sunday - Thursday 5:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Friday - Saturday 5:30 - 10:00 p.m.
Closed December 24 and 25

Desiree and Lyle 

INFO: For more information about Garden of Lights: 301-962-1400
COST: Sunday - Thursday $25 per car/minivan
Friday and Saturday $30 per car/minivan
*Note: you can get a coupon on www.groupon.com

WEBSITE: https://www.montgomeryparks.org/events/garden-of-lights/

Rob and Tom

lit-up Frogs on a bench

Schoolhouse display with a Frank Lloyd Wright quote

Rainbow and thundercloud

Model Train display

Model town in RR set up

Railroad station model with man and dog

Railroad bridge and waterfall

model town at the Railroad tracks