Christmas Caroling with the Boston Pops

Saturday Job and I were able to attend a wonderful baptism of a man who has been investigating and that Job has befriended. I always love going to baptisms and we are excited to have a new member of our ward :)

After the baptism Job and I booked it over to the Prudential Center downtown. Keith Lockhart ("He is a rockstar!" -Job) who is the Boston Pops Maestro, and members of the Tanglewood chorus led a huge group of carolers in singing Christmas carols in an effort to break the world record for the largest group of carolers gathered in the same place at the same time. The current record-7,514 carolers-was set by singers at South Carolina's Bob Jones University in 2004.
In addition to attempting to break the record, for every participating caroler, the Boston Pops contributed $1 to purchase Holiday Pops tickets for children in under served communities.

We had such a blast!! There was a great group there and we sang our little hearts out :) I am not one to usually sing that much (unless I am in the car ;) but I love Christmas songs and have no problem belting them out :) There was a great mix of both spiritual and secular Christmas songs which I liked. There was also free hot chocolate, an awesome band to accompany us, Santa and Mrs. Clause, Rudolf, the whole gang.

Later that night we checked the news to see if we had won. We had a group of 3,239 carolers so we didn't beat the record but I know that everyone had a great time anyways and trying to break the record was only a part of the overall fun :) It was nice to gather together with community members and was such a fun way to start off our holiday season!