Portland's Tuba Christmas

Went downtown this afternoon to meet my sister and her family and listen to Tuba Christmas, a collection of 200 tubas playing Christmas songs at Pioneer Square. Could have been cool.... but the truth is, it was pretty lame. The tubas never got uncorked and played everything kind of slow and dreary, and the MC talked too much and thought he was funnier than he really was. We left halfway through and went over the Nordstrom's, where we drank some iced tea and my nephew ripped open sugar packets and scrapped them up, until he turned cranky from the lack of a nap.