What kinds of holiday events happen where you are?

[Scarlet]

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[phoenixblayze]

we have something called christmas in the park, we have a huge park with a lake here, and they set up so that you drive through a bunch of light displays....thats about it

[raminda]

As far as light shows for Christmas, we just have a few fancy neighborhoods who are all required to put up decorations so that the whole street makes a story & there's many different Christmas stories in the neighborhood.

If you want, you can rent a carriage and have horses take you through the streets to see it.

I have no idea what goes on other than that, or even anything exciting before Christmas.

[IvyWitch]

I am close to the city, so I like to go for the tree lighting and the Turkey Day Parade.

[DixieWitch]

There's a thing called "A Dicken's Christmas" out at the "mall" my husband works at. (I put "mall" like that because I don't reall consider it a mall, it's more like a huge strip center, but they call it a mall. Everything is only acessable from the outside and there is no mall type food court) It happens the first weekend of December only. There are 2 horse drawn carriages that you can wait in line forever to ride, people dressed in the Dicken's style sing Christmas carols and free hot chocolate and cookies. There is also an area with fake snow, since ya know, Alabama rarely gets snow, much less at this time of the year. I'm not sure if there is a parade. But in my parents town about 10-20 minutes from here, they put decorations up in the city park and have a lighting celebration. I know they have a small parade there too.

[TaysatWesir]

In NY Rockefeller annual Christmas tree lighting and ice skating there too. :)

[dragonprincess]

Over on this side of Michigan, there's the festival of Lights, but I don't go, I can get enough holiday excitment from my two year old, and I see it as mainly a popularity contest and consumerism push.