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Check out my facebook page . You will find music, story, and pictures to make your holiday even better. There is also a toy store and t-shirt shop.
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It's impossible to escape the Yuletide spirit on a trip to Iceland during the holidays - a visit to Reykjavik will be full of an awesome quantity of Holiday season delight. The city goes crazy for an excellent Christmas festivity, and starts ringing in the season in the beginning of December, with the illumination of the town's X-mas tree at Austurvöllur square. The celebration includes choirs singing carols and the arrival of the first of the "Holiday Lads," 13 Santas who perform all through town at the time of Lent.
Other favorite vacation sights also include the Christmas Village in Hafnarfjörður town, a small, merry town chock-full of stores offering for sale vacation presents and traditional foods amidst live entertainment, and a visit to Reykjavik's main Xmas Market place in Ingólfstorg Square, which fills with vendors selling holiday souvenirs, mulled wine and performances from a variety of musician and performers.
Finally, to experience an old-fashioned, Nordic Xmas, check out the Christmas event at the Reykjavik City Museum, where exhibits demonstrate how fried bread is produced, tallow is used to make candles, and vacationers can get to know traditional Yuletide verses and dances.
For a really special take on Xmas festivals, consider a vacation to Taos during the course of the holiday. The town's Native American and Hispanic influences prevail, bringing a multicultural twist to the holiday with entertainments like the illuminating of Ledoux Street, where the delightful street's stores, galleries, museums and studios offer beverages, food and music, and bonfires to passersby's, and the avenue is lined with farolitos, or little lanterns, warmly shimmering.
Taos's X-mas tree lighting comes about at the end of November in a ceremony that features carol singing and the appearance of Santa Claus in an ancient fire engine. During the few days prior to Christmas, the town additionally celebrates the Hispanic tradition "Las Posadas", a candlelight processional at Ranchos de Taos Plaza, in addition to a display of "Los Pastores", a Spanish morality play. The height of the holiday season traditions occurs on X-mas Day, on the Taos Pueblo. The pueblo dwellers take a processional through the pueblo's plaza while bringing the statue of the Blessed Mother. Bonfires are additionally lit and time honored tribal dances performed.
For numerous Americans, the beginning of the vacation season is identified with the lighting of the tremendous Christmas tree in Rockefeller Center Plaza, new york City's veritable vacation hq. Tourists and natives go to the plaza in flocks, where they can ice skate on the rink developed under the plaza's Prometheus statue, or just goggle in enjoyment at the incredible Christmas tree, strung with roughly 30,000 LED lights.
Get the kids and hotfoot to every child's dreamland, FAO Schwarz, the immense toy shop where it genuinely is possible to play the piano with your dancing feet on the giant floor keyboard, a la the Tom Hanks' motion picture, Big. Later, you'll desire to roam to Macy's Santaland, a real winter wonderland packed with toy trains, pixies, Xmas trees and many other vacation scenarios bound to conjure up marvel in the entire family. Last of all, in case you have not overloaded on the holiday crowds, don't forget to reserve tickets to the Radio City Music Hall's X-mas Spectacular, in which you'll not only see lots of dancing Santa Claus', but also the high-kicking legs of the renowned Rockettes.