Your Town

[Cafe Jenn]

Hi Everyone!

On Sunday the town I live in will be having their tree lighting ceromony as well as a telant show.

Does your town have any special activities for the Holidays?

[Aurorasmom]

OMG a huge part of the reason i LOVE LOVE LOVE my town is BECAUSE of all the awesome things they do, especially around the holidays!!!!!!

Old Poway Park is doing a tree lighting festival shortly, which also includes turning their little train station into a christmas village where the kids can ride the train with santa and mrs. clause!!  i am SO excited! the park is always beautifully decorated with holidays treats for sale and live christmas musicy bands.

Then, the next weekend at the community center, they IMPORT SNOW (socal LOL) and have a little kids area for the little ones to play in it and build a little ramp kinda thing for the bigger kids to go sledding! its AMAZING! they have a ton of free arts and crafts for the kids to do, and have a life-size version of the board game candy land, dressed characters and all, for the kids to play.  santa, mrs. clause, the snow princesses, and local pageant winners are all present at the event.

they also randomly decorate the whole city as well...miscellaneous trees, all the street lights on the main road =)

simple amazing

[itsnotaboutm765]

Nope :O( the town we live in is kinda bah hum bug on all holidays

[mdmom]

 they are having a parade in town tonight... the do a city park lighting where light the whole park up i think that's tomorrow... they did the town square tree lighting on Tuesday :)  we wont be going this year since my 2 year old and 7month old are both sick and it is cold out :)

[MomToBeISaMom]

Santa will be at the community center tomorrow and the community club pays for every kid to get a picture with him.  If they want to order more, they can do so.  There are door prizes, cookies and punch, crafts, hayrack rides, and candy. 

The senior citizens center is writing replies to Santa letters this year.  I think that's adorable!

[auroragold]

Last night we went to our annual Tree Lighting and Holiday Stroll.

It's a small town but it's fun - a very community oriented and family friendly event. It's nice to see friends and politicians and businesses all out for the evening.  We always have a good time! 

[ohwrite]

I'm near the Los Angeles Harbor, and we have a Christmas Parade on Sunday, then Santa comes in his sleigh (which is really like a decorated parade float) up and down the streets in the evenings at scheduled times to see the kids. In the next town over Torrance, there is a nighborhood that is so decorated that cars line up to drive through it. We will park our car, bundle up and walk through the neighborhood, then go home and have hot cocoa and Christmas cookies. Torrance usually has a couple of places that import some snow like aurorasmom said!! I love this time of year!!

[princeNpryncess]

 WE HAVE A HUGE PARK AND THEY DECORATE THE WHOLE PARK WITH CHRISTMAS LIGHTS!! WHEN WE GO SEE THE LIGHTS I WILL ADD PICS!! SANTA IS AT THE MALL EVERY YEAR IN OUR TOWN ALSO.

[shygurl3166]

My hometown in NY has a holiday train that goes through town all lit up with christmas lights and garland.. Its really pretty. Here in Alaska where the army sent us, we can drive about 30 minutes and get to The Santa Claus Shop in North Pole, where Santa visits for nov. to dec. They have santa's Reindeer, Candy Cane lamp posts (year round) and  roads name after santa.. (example.. santa claus Lane)

[mommybug77]

I live in Chicago so there is always something going on.

[Kim24kids]

 Well our town did them last night but it was a bad night because my hubby got fired for someone elses mistake so he was "fit to be tied" and it just wasn't good timing=(

But we have been driveing around looking at lights =)