Cultural Opportunity #3 (Yule Walk)

The friday after Thanksgiving, one of my guy friends decided to take me on the Yule Walk in downtown Peoria. Not really knowing what I was getting into, I went along with it. The Yule Walk is an annual Christmas celebration thrown by several different businesses in the downtown area such as the Caterpillar building and the local banks. Mostly it consisted of different kinds of art showcases all over that part of the city. There were choirs singing in almost every building possible. One bank had featured a guitarist who played Christmas music, and another had Richwoods madrigal singers, where I got to see one of my friends singing. They were all lined up on a staircase in their extravagant medieval clothes and sounded incredible. Up by the courthouse (?) there was an ice sculpture exhibit. There were presents, reindeer, candy canes (which were arranged as such that I had mistaken them for a sculpture of an elephant...), and this massive throne that seemed worthy of St. Nick himself. My friend that I went with dared me to go sit up on it, so I did, and had to walk around the whole downtown area with a wet bottom. He still has the blackmail pictures.