With the impending release of the new Star Wars movie “The Force Awakens”, Star Wars mania even spread to the 23rd Annual Gingerbread Village at the Seattle Sheraton. This annual charity event serves as a friendly competition between a select group who go all out in creating food-based sculpture.
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Macy’s sponsors and runs its famous Thanksgiving Parade the day after Thanksgiving each year. It’s Black Friday shopping day after all, so it gets lots of people downtown. The parade offers a classic range of sights and sounds: waving people, candy throwers, the mayor, dancing troupes, marching bands, […]
The Renaissance Fair at Greenbank Farm on Whidbey Island is a fun, eclectic day of small town performances, music, food, crafts, and occasional surprises. There are also wandering people in costume, animals, and good people watching. Check out the messy pie eating contest, corny jokes from the announcers, […]
The Oregon Country Fair, located on a forested farm west of Eugene Oregon, is a great weekend spectacle of low tech camaraderie, performance, and art. It occurs each summer, powered year around by a devoted group of artsy and outgoing celebrants.
The fair occurs mostly along an interconnected series of […]
The Enchanted Forest is a mini Disneyland within a private forest of Turner Oregon, just south of Salem. Fairytales, nursery rhymes, and storybook characters come to life as displays, fun houses, small amusement park rides, theater performances, and activities throughout.
The park begins with a winding path through many colorful […]
Ape Cave is a fun and unique introduction to spelunking. The total length traveled is almost three miles long, with the lower level an easy walk and the upper level involving more boulder scrambling and an occasional wall climb. Good lights, food, water, and warm clothes (no matter how hot […]
If you are exploring around the caves and hiking trails of south Mt St Helens National Volcanic Monument park, then consider Beaver Bay Campground as a sleeping and launching place. It is a nicely laid out and appointed campground owned by a timber company yet open to the public […]