a lot of them starting with the tree lighting at BYUH tonight. if you are wishing you could be "home for christmas" like i am - here are some local and general christmas festivities to make your season bright. we're gonna hit up as much of this as we can:
Ala Moana Center:
Mele Trees of Light: A display of Christmas trees light up in sync with holiday music at Center Court; 10 minute shows begin at 6PM daily and repeat hourly until the mall closes
Candy Cane Train: Keiki under age 12 can ride the 30-ft. Long train on a five minute sing-along journey throughout the mall- operates every 20 minutes- $7 per ride Call 955-9517
Windward Mall:
Dear Santa Letter Writing Station thru Dec 24th at Center Court during mall hours. Keiki write a message to Santa and receive a reply in the mail; 44-cent postage stamp required.
Snow Flurry Tree: Through Dec 24th Keiki will be delighted by a simulated snow flurry at Center Court. The daily 15 minute shows begin at the top of the hour from 1 to 8pm.
Other events:
DEC 6th: Christmas Keiki Hula Performance- 11:30am to 12:30pm at the Ward Warehouse Amphitheater- free.
or
DEC 13th same time, same place, same performance if the other one won't work for you
DEC 12th: Mililani Shopping Center- 11am-2pm following the town parade (which is that morning) face painting, balloon art and Santa photos....etc....
or
Dec 5th: Windward Mall Borders- 11am Celebrate the holidays with Dr. Suess “Grinchfest”- classic holiday stories such as “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” and holiday crafts...etc.
DEC 12th: same Windward Mall Borders kinda event but this time “Beckett the Bear Holiday Storytime”- also 11am.
WE LOVED THIS ONE LAST YEAR!: Honolulu City Lights
Opening Night: Dec. 5th 6PM Honolulu Hale 768-6622 Also features food booths and keiki rides beginning at 4PM, Kawaiaha'o Church music concert at 5pm and a holiday concert at 7:30PM
Honolulu City Lights Trolley: Tours: View the dazzling Christmas lights and displays at City Hall and in downtown Honolulu. --From Ward Warehouse, Dec6-30th non-stop rides last about 25 minutes and departs nightly. Presale tickets (while supplies last) $4.50, limited to 10 per adult, cash or checks only. To purchase visit the common area near T&C Surf Designs from 11am-7pm thru DEC20th. Keiki 3 and under are free but must sit in the cabin with a parent. Wow, that was lot of stuff to type out. :)
Ok, one more Windward Mall- haven't tried this yet, but got the flyer and it sounded like fun: Winter Land
Visit: The North Pole
See: Santa's Elves and Workshop
Dance in: Bubble Land
Experience: The Snow Fall and MUCH MORE!
Showtimes:thru DEC11- mon-fr 6pm-9pm, sat 12noon-9pm, sun 12noon-5pm
dec12-18: mon-fro 5-10pm, sat&sun 12noon-10pm dec19-23 mon-fri 12noon-10pm
$7 and I think she said kids 3 and under were free and “she” was a decked out mrs. clause!
And of course: VANS TRIPLE CROWN OF SURFING - REEF HAWAIIAN PRO & VANS HAWAIIAN PRO / O'NEILL WORLD CUP OF SURFING GIDGET PRO SUNSET BEACH
Oahu
Address: North Shore
Haleiwa, HI 96712 Beginning Date: 11/12/2009 Ending Date: 12/20/2009 URL: http://www.triplecrownofsurfing.com and www.bigwaveshawaii.com Ticket URL: Description: The Super Bowl of Surfing; the Wimbledon of the Waves; Mecca to those with a passion for mountainous surf. The Vans Triple Crown of Surfing pits the world's top-ranked surfers against the world's biggest and most famous waves: Haleiwa, Sunset Beach, the Banzai Pipeline, with more than $800,000 and prestigious titles up for grabs. As the final stop on the ASP World Tour, it also casts the last dice on the battle for world titles with the champions crowned right here on the North Shore of Oahu.
Reef Hawaiian Pro (men) & Vans Hawaiian Pro (women), Nov.12-23, Haleiwa Ali'i Beach Park
O'Neill World Cup of Surfing (men) & Gidget Pro Sunset Beach (women), Nov.24-Dec.6, Sunset Beach
Billabong Pipeline Masters (men) & Billabong Pro Maui (women), Dec. 8-20, Banzai Pipeline (men), Honolua Bay, Maui (women).
Please note that each event takes approximately four days to run to completion. Competition is held on the biggest and best days of surf available within the designated event timeframe. For daily updates call (808) 596-7873 or log on to triplecrownofsurfing.com
and i loved this list from jordan of oh happy day:
(obviously we will have to make some of these work for us… like we can go to the Laie temple visitors center instead of Oakland temple….etc.)
Go Ice Skating
Watch It's a Wonderful Life, make spiced cider.
Exchange gifts
Make Christmas Cookies for friends.
Find Mistletoe, hang it in our house and kiss under it.
Address and Mail Christmas Cards
Go to Borders and Pick out one new Christmas CD.
Go to The Nutcracker
Handel's Messiah Sing Along
Leave out wooden shoes on December 5
Go to the Oakland Temple to see the Nativity
Make Thick Hot Chocolate and Homemade Marshmallows
Host a Christmas Sweater Party
Put up a ribbon sash for Christmas cards
Donate canned goods
Give neighbors a present
Put up a wreath
Make a Gingerbread house
Make a popcorn garland
Make hot chocolate and read The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
Sing (or listen) to favorite Christmas songs
Drive around to see neighborhood lights
Go out and see public light display
Read Christmas story from the Bible and the Book of Mormon
Open a gift (new stocking or pajamas or pillowcase)
Make a family traditional dessert
Eat out at a festive restaurant
Go to a seasonal movie
Tell stories of childhood Christmas around the fire
Have a romantic candlelit dinner by the Christmas tree
Make decorative sugar cookies
Sign up to purchase gifts for a needy child
Host a Christmas dessert party
Write out a Christ-centered goal to start early for the New Year
Have a movie party (classic Christmas clips)
Go to a Christmas Concert
Attend City tree lighting event
Have a full traditional breakfast while listening to Christmas music
Let's see, this is starting to get crazy buuuut: there are choir concerts at BYUH and a bell choir on Dec10th that we will be going to here in the community cuz Linda is in it and Ambrose likes bells :) and of course we have been listening to 95.5 non-stop for our Christmas music fix in the car and I have a couple holiday stations on Pandora.com- one is a sufjan stevens holiday station for my indie christmas needs, one is a Disney station for the classic cheese-fest songs we all love, and I have another that is Bing Crosby Jingle Bells inspired for the old time holiday stuff I love.... sometimes a Nutcracker one as well.
We were thinking about some Christmas crafts like a paper chain but instead a fabric chain with velcro (thank you Liko) of some felt lights on yarn (thank you Jonna) or some round felt ornaments (thank you mom)...etc. And of course it is not Christmas without a good homemade sugar cookie!
WHAT ABOUT YOU? Anything I missed? What else can we do?? :)
15 comments:
this is great, thanks!
OH MY GOSH SISTER YOU'RE NUTS. i don't know why i found this very resourceful list so funny...maybe it's me, not you...but i'm still laughing.
oh no, it's definitely me.
we're gonna need a whole year to recover from christmas if i have anything to say about it! hehe
I like this very thorough list, thanks for taking all the work out of it for me! :)
mahalo friend!
Kaneohe has their parade on Saturday the 5th as well- Kahuku band usually marches in it and then the Honolulu City Lights parade that evening. Busy day already though!
My kids only like Laie parades cause you get all the candy.
oh, well, i like you a lot, too. and i like basically everything you write, even giantly long list of fun things to do thousands of miles away from me. so. yeah.
ok, when i said "basically" i meant definitely, certainly everything. except talking about living in hawaii far away from me. so there.
yay! You're coming to the tree lighting tonight! Brooklyn will be a special dancer for the 1st graders. I have some cute patterns for embroidering felt ornaments if you're interested!
Woah, after re-reading what I wrote, i realized I used an ! after every sentence. Sorry, it's just all so exciting...
I'm tired just reading your list. haha My poor kids!
yes your poor kids indeed mrs. homemade everything, but more importantly donuts! :)
haha!! you are nuts, woman!!!
i read that same list on 'oh happy day', and every year growing up our family tradition was to hit up the Christmas lights in town (honolulu hale) on some sunday night in december and walk around, taking pictures of ourselves.
i have some Christmas stories i will read on certain nights in my advent (the mitten, the night before christmas, the nutcracker, the twelve days of Christmas, a shorter more kid-friendly version of a Christmas carol, the grinch, the best Christmas pageant ever)...make cookies for friends and neighbors, or something sweet, make gingerbread houses out of graham crackers...so many fun things to do!
you sure know how to live friend. way to make the best.
I love your list. We're trying to do something Christmasy every day, but I feel like we may fall short. But this is making me think that one of my projects this next year is to make some fun advent calendar so it will all be organized beforehand.
thanks for compiling all this!
it is going to be a fun christmas season!
wowzers what a list!!
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