Happy Holidays!  So much to see…so much to do!  Enjoy the festivities of the season by taking in any number of the following in the Greater Puget Sound area:

• Light displays…Garden D’Lights at Bellevue Botanical Garden, Point Defiance Park in Tacoma, Clam Lights at Gene Coulon Park in Renton , Space Needle, Zoolights at the Woodland Park Zoo, The Lights of Christmas in Stanwood
• Snowflake Lane…every evening at 7 pm at the Bellevue Collection until December 24th
• Bellevue Magic Season Enchanted Holidays at the Bravern – nightly lighting, visit Santa
• Enjoy the Holiday Star, Tree, and Carousel at Westlake Center in downtown Seattle
• Ice Skating…at the Bellevue Magic Season Ice Arena, Seattle Center
• Festival of Trees at The Fairmont Olympic Hotel
• Gingerbread Village display at the Seattle Sheraton and Bellevue Magic Season at Gingerbread Lane at the Hilton Hotel
• Reindeer Festival at Cougar Mt. Zoo in Issaquah and see Santa’s reindeer at University Village
• Arts and craft shows
• See the lights and enjoy carolers by ship
• Choose your tree at a tree farm
• Figgy Pudding Contest…but we missed it as it was yesterday
• Festivals of Lights at the Children’s Museum – Hanukkah, Diwali, Santa Lucia, Kwanzaa and Christmas
• Nursery decor – Molbak’s (Woodinville), Swanson’s (Seattle), Wights (Lynnwood), Squak (Issaquah), and more…
• Shop Shop Shop
• See the Sound of Music, the theater, or other musical performance
• Pacific Northwest Ballet Nutcracker and other dance performances around the Sound
• See the Seattle Men’s Chorus, the Northwest Boy’s Choir, and other fine classical music performances
• Give to Northwest Harvest, Salvation Army, or another charity…season of giving and goodwill
• Local lighting displays, tree lighting, and Santa…ex:  Redmond, Renton, Country Village in Bothell, Auburn, Langley, and many more…
• and take a drive (or walk) to see what your neighbors have been up to