![]() Nick is flying into town in just a week on the tail end of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. (That's my daughter looking deceptively innocent in the Santa pic by Big Apple Portraits above.) If you didn't make it, that's okay since St. I had a panic attack the other day when I saw that El Museo del Barrio already put its three kings out when Three Kinds Day is in January! While we can't do your holiday shopping for you we can tell you about the best ways to celebrate Thanksgiving, Hanukkah (which overlap next week) and Christmas with kids in NYC, New Jersey, Westchester, Long Island, Connecticut and beyond.Ī big thank you to all of our readers who attended our Holiday Photo Event last weekend. We hope you and your family have a happy Thanksgiving, Hanukkah or whatever you're celebrating!Īlready feeling some seasonal stress? We hear you. Here's what else we covered on the NYC site this week. Since we're giving away 20 of them, your odds of winning are pretty good. Our giveaway this week is also good for families everywhere: one-year subscriptions to the meal-planning service Relish. You can cut your own Christmas trees on LI and in NJ, see amazing holiday displays in Hartford, CT and check out tips for having an eco-friendly holiday from our Boston site, some specific to the area but easily adapted for families everywhere. There's lots of holiday fun in New Jersey, Westchester, Long Island and Connecticut, too. Our Thanksgiving and Holiday Guides are packed with plenty of ways to celebrate the season including the best places to see Santa like Macy's must-see Santaland festive Christmas tree and menorah lightings such as the big Friday night shindig at the South Street Seaport and the kickoff weekend for the jaw-dropping Dyker Lights displays in Dyker Heights. There's a lot going on this holiday weekend in NYC beyond Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. And our Travel site has a wonderful post about spending Christmas in Dublin, Ireland. Got a car? Then you may want to plan a night trip to see some of the best holiday displays in the outer boroughs, Long Island, New Jersey and Connecticut. The sheer number of activities in December is overwhelming and we hope these Go Lists help you plan out your family's calendar so you don't miss the really special stuff.Īnd a couple of cool odds and ends: There's still time to enter this week's awesome giveaway: a family-four pack to Sahara Sam's indoor water park in New Jersey. Since it's a new month, we also posted our December Go Lists highlighting the absolute best things to do throughout the month in NYC, Westchester, Long Island, New Jersey and Connecticut. ![]() There are some seasonal experiences you can only have outside of the five boroughs, like Polar Express Santa trains and cutting your own Christmas tree. Our NYC Holiday Guide includes all kinds of festive fun in the city as well as links to our tri-state-area Holiday Guides. We're not crazy enough to try to get close! Admittedly, we experienced that last one from the comfort of an MTA bus. Over the past week, my daughter and I have been rushing around playing tourist, seeing all of NYC's iconic holiday sights like Santa at Macy's, the spectacular department store holiday windows and the tree at Rockefeller Center. Here's what else we covered on the NYC site this week: We also added some great posts to our Holiday Gift Guide like at-home DIY presents, great new kids' and YA books and our favorite educational construction kits. ![]() Cool new posts this week include roundups of the best holiday light displays in Southern Westchester and Connecticut, a list of holiday train shows in Westchester and historical Christmas celebrations in New Jersey. So we keep filling our Holiday Fun Guides with the best ways to celebrate in NYC, Westchester, Long Island, New Jersey and Connecticut. Of course the season isn't all about stuff, it's about spending quality time together, too. Enter to win one or all! We're ending one giveaway a day starting next week so don't miss out. You can find all of the prizes on our giveaway page. We're giving away more than $3,000 in awesome prizes including tickets to see A Christmas Story and the Radio City Christmas Spectacular, packages from Disney and Hello Kitty, and lots of other cool swag. They say that giving is better than receiving so we're testing out that theory with our second annual Biggest Holiday Giveaway.
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