Christmas

This year on Saturday December 5 2009, the Christmas tour at Casa de Rancho Cucamonga (The Rains House) will have self-guided tours, cookies, cider, holiday music, and the gift shop will be selling Christmas ornaments.

Tours will be from 3pm to 8pm.  Kids under the age of 5 are free, between 6 and 11 years of age are $2 (suggested donation) and over the age of 11 are $3 (suggested donation).

The Rains House is at 8810 Hemlock, Rancho Cucamonga - that is the corner of Vineyard and Hemlock.  For information call (909) 989-4970.

I Thought I Would Summarize Some Of The Local Small Town Christmas Activities, Not That They Aren't Important But Rather That There Are So Many Of Them. You Could Spend The Entire Christmas Season Driving Around To The Various Light Displays, Parades And Community Displays And Not Finish Till They Started Taking Them Down In January. I Know Some People Who Will Do That.

Kolde Christmas 2993 Gertrude st Riverside Hours: 5:30 to 9:00

This year they are going all out. They have added more lights, for a total of 18,000 lights that are synchronized to music, using the computer.

There will some one out front passing out cookies and candy and I bet you can guess who that will be.

44004 Terraza Ct. Temecula

This is a single home that was decorated about 8 years ago on a cul-de-sac and now almost every home in the complex is lighted in one way or another.

I was happy to find this guy still around and doing what he has been doing for the past 21 years. When I was down in the Palm Springs court complex I would make it a point to pay a visit to this young mans display. I was never disappointed by his efforts that he started when he was 13 years old. He started off with a few hundred lights on a few trees and by the time I last saw his place in December 1998, it had now grown to over 2 million lights on a 4 acre property.

San Diego's favorite kick-off to the holiday season, will take place for the 31st consecutive year on Friday, December 5, 5:00-10:00 p.m. and Saturday, December 6, noon-10:00 p.m.

On December 9th, the City of Chino will once again host its annual Youth Christmas Parade and Fair in the City’s downtown.  The parade route begins on Riverside Drive at Yorba Avenue and then turns south on Central Avenue, ending at City Hall.