My mother and I attended the Christmas pageant at a local church. Thank goodness we had purchased tickets, because those who had not were turned away. Apparently, those wanting to attend the 7PM service were in line by 4:30...in the cold. We had to park too far for her to walk uphill, but a van was kind enough to stop by for us. It was like a Hollywood production and she was very impressed. We had pretty good seats, last row, aisle seat. The production included: a human 20" Christmas tree, a scene similar to the Nutcracker finale, a Nativity Scene with live animals (elephant, ponies, 2 camels). In this last part, the animals walked from the back to see Baby Jesus on stage. When the camel went to his knees so that one of the actors could climb on his back, he almost fell on me. Did I move fast! All in all it was a great performance. BTW, I am done with Book 5 of the Left Behind series. 7 more to go.