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November 25, 2007 at 11:31pm

Zoolights review

ZooLights at Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium is as much of a holiday tradition as the choking down an eggnog latte that contains never real egg or real nog. It just seems something everyone with children has to do this time of year.

Well, now that the holiday light display turns 20 this year, I was expecting to be wowed tonight. I was not wowed. I was remotely impressed.

There were few visitors along the trails and visible dark patches where light displays would otherwise go when I went earlier tonight. The grand display in the center of the zoo had a tennis-court sized grassy patch with not so much as a sparkler to be found. It was just odd.

The show might boast seven miles of extension cord and 27 miles of lights totaling 525,000 bulbs, but I have gone every year on record and this was the first year I was left wanting more.

Zoolights runs from 5 to 9 p.m. through Jan. 1, except for Nov. 26, 27, 28, Dec. 3,4,5 and 24. Tickets are $5. Visit the Zoo’s Web site for more information. â€" Steve Dunkelberger

Zoolightsnarrows2007 The grand overview shows a bald spot along the right side where lights should go.

Zoolightsdjohnsons2007 The Johnsons of University Place find themselves signs instead of looking at an empty field where lights should have been.

Zoolightssharks2007 Sharks and kids chat about the lack of lights

Zoolightsdaughter2007 Kathryn Dunkelberger and Arden Johnson remain chipper after an ordeal of Zoolights without lots of lights.

Filed under: Holidays, Tacoma,

November 23, 2007 at 9:58am

Light up their lives

Have your kids â€" turkey-stoked, released from school and spinning amok with mounting visions of sugarplums, Barbie dolls and Yu-Gi-Oh! action figures â€" drilled a hole through the roof yet? There's a reason they switch on the holiday light exhibits the day after Thanksgiving, so why not take advantage of the thoughtful gesture? â€" Suzy Stump

Zoolights.

Fantasy Lights.

Lite-Brite.

Filed under: Holidays, Tacoma,

November 19, 2007 at 11:27am

Join me at Tacoma Art Place

I’m feeling holiday-like. Is it the paraphernalia I’m seeing in all the stores, or the calendar that’s putting the pressure on?

I don’t know which it is, but being that I’ve got this yearly tradition of making my own cards, I guess I need to get a move on.

The beautiful thing of it is, this year I won’t have to do it alone, thanks to my friends at the Tacoma Art Place.  I’ll be holding a class on Sunday, Dec. 2, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and I’ll share some ideas and techniques from cards I’ve made in the past, and a boatload of supplies and refreshments.  All I want from you, dear friends, is to show up with $10 and any supplies you might have to share (though the latter is not necessary.)

And because I’m feeling that holiday spirit welling, I’ll donate any profits from the event right back to Tacoma Art Place.

Can’t wait to see you there! â€" Jessica Corey-Butler

Filed under: Holidays, Tacoma,

November 18, 2007 at 7:47pm

Fantasy Lights preview

Fanlights8 It gets cold out there, but it sure is fun and the crisp air sparks the holiday spirit in even the most curmudgeon among the walkers.

A family tradition in the South Sound is walking through the Fantasy Lights displays at Spanaway Park. The 2.5 mile route is open to walkers on the first night of the season. I walked it tonight, but you wimps can still drive the loop to see some 300 light displays that range from a skiing snowman to a tank firing snowballs to a pirate ship and jumping rain deer. Fantasy Lights, now in its 13th year, is the Northwest's  largest drive-through holiday lights display.

Driving through the loop as the colored lights zoom passed the window can be fun. Tune your car radio to 93.7 FM to hear holiday carols performed by local high school choirs and don't forget to bring hot cocoa with mini marsh mellows. A wool blanket for the snugglers in the back seat doesn't hurt either. It's not a bad idea to have the children dress in their jammies so they are ready to go to bed by the time the drive home starts.

Fantasy Lights runs nightly Nov. 22 to Dec. 3, including Christmas and New Year's Eve, from 5:30 to 9 p.m. Admission is $13 per car or $45 for a bus. $10 tickets are also available at Lakewood Community Center, Sprinker Recreation Center and Garfield Bookstore. More information is available here. â€" Steve Dunkelberger

April 14, 2006 at 10:43am

Egg-citing

Certain traditions adapt themselves as time travels on. Take the Easter egg hunt. It was fun when you were a kid - watching your parents crawl around, trying to hide a bright pink egg behind a sprinkler head. And there was always the added joy of finding one (hopefully unbroken) three months later. But now you're a parent, and well, its lost its charm. Or has it? The lovely folks at the Puyallup Rec Center Tracy Aviary host an Adult Flashlight Egg Hunt Friday night. You can now have an egg-ceptional (no, really, ceptions of eggs) time hunting for the eggs hidden on the Puyallup Rec Center ball fields.  Maybe someone will even paint your face.  Friday, April 14, 10 p.m., 18 and older, $3, Puyallup Rec Center Ballfields, 808 Valley Ave. N.W., Puyallup, (253) 841-5457. - Suzy Stump

Filed under: Holidays, Puyallup,

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