The holidays have been WONDERFUL! I’ve been having such a lovely, relaxing time.
One of the things my boyfriend and I did to celebrate the holidays was to attend the Luminaria Holiday Lights at the Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix. It was gorgeous fun. Basically, you walk through the gardens at night where they’re lit with fabulous holiday lights. Along the walk at different spots they have live music playing and snack/drink bars. The highlight of my evening was when we were drinking a sassy Hot Apple Pie made from warm apple cider and tuaca liqueur beverage (not Raw, but definitely festive). The drink normally comes with whipped cream, which we passed on since we’re vegan. We took our warm drinks and sat by a fire with some other people and we were “oohing and aahhing” about how delicious our drinks were. This caught the attention of others and they inquired as to what we were drinking. We told them what it was and made sure to tell them it was without whipped cream, because I’m always looking for a reason to talk about being vegan (hoping it conjures up vegan conversation)…which it did! Here’s the highlight…a teenager joined the talk and volunteered that he was vegetarian. When I inquired as to why, he replied, “because eating animals is mean.”