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My wife and I are looking for some new ideas to celebrate the Christmas season with our grandkids. We've done quite a bit of the regular stuff over the years. Alpenrose, Lights at PIR and Peacock. Zoo ride, Grotto,Christmas ships etc.

Would you have an idea to share?

Thanks
 
I might be showing my age, but there was a Street of Dreams light show somewhere around the west side of Tabor. Maybe 50th or so? They put a lot of work into the show--at least, when I last saw it as a teenager they did.
 
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My wife and I are looking for some new ideas to celebrate the Christmas season with our grandkids. We've done quite a bit of the regular stuff over the years. Alpenrose, Lights at PIR and Peacock. Zoo ride, Grotto,Christmas ships etc.

Would you have an idea to share?

Thanks

Head downtown for the Proud Boys/antifa show. Fun for the whole family.

barfo
 
Head downtown for the Proud Boys/antifa show. Fun for the whole family.

barfo
You used to able to take your family downtown and check out the train at M&F and windows.
Not any more though. Really yo bad
 
My granddaughter was already abused by antifa commies fir wearing a Youth for Christ shirt.
Scum bag Brown shirt nazi
Thanks for bringing it up though!

maybe it was a false flag operation, i hear those are popular these days.

barfo
 
My wife and I are looking for some new ideas to celebrate the Christmas season with our grandkids. We've done quite a bit of the regular stuff over the years. Alpenrose, Lights at PIR and Peacock. Zoo ride, Grotto,Christmas ships etc.

Would you have an idea to share?

Thanks
We used to always go to Peacock Lane. Been doing that since I was a tot back in the early 50s.
When I was in better health, I would always put up Christmas lights. You and your grandkids could do that as well as decorate the tree.
I used to live up in the hills overlooking Alpenrose but I've never been there since our field trip when I was in about the third grade and I got to squeeze a squirt of milk out of a cow.
 
maybe it was a false flag operation, i hear those are popular these days.

barfo
not sure I understand what a false flag deal has to do with my granddaughter getting physically harassed by an anarchist? Man, id be just as pissed if it was by a right wing neo nazi.
 
We used to always go to Peacock Lane. Been doing that since I was a tot back in the early 50s.
When I was in better health, I would always put up Christmas lights. You and your grandkids could do that as well as decorate the tree.
I used to live up in the hills overlooking Alpenrose but I've never been there since our field trip when I was in about the third grade and I got to squeeze a squirt of milk out of a cow.
lol..Thanks for the idea. We do Peacock every few years, its still nice. Im 68 and my folks used to take us there.
Great idea about having them help with the lights. I have a ranch style house which it has made it easy to do.
We did Alpenrose last year the first time in a while for me going there it was fantastic, they ad the Storybook Lane for kids that used to e at Lolyd Center back when it was new.
We are thinking about either the Oaks Park Christmas Express or the one in Hood River.
 
How old of kids?

There will be some Christmas carol specials of stripper karaoke at Devil's Point.
 
How old of kids?

There will be some Christmas carol specials of stripper karaoke at Devil's Point.
lol...between 4-14

Where's Devils Point?
I used to go to Taylors View Point decades ago....I was a sky pilot from hell then!
 
Shit is it December already!!? How long was I in Europe?!?
at my age the planning process takes as long as congress under Obama & Trump, but I get stuff done, within budget.

Like Ive always said, If you doing know her you are going, you WILL end up somewhere else!
And what gets measured, gets DONE!
 
not sure I understand what a false flag deal has to do with my granddaughter getting physically harassed by an anarchist? Man, id be just as pissed if it was by a right wing neo nazi.
If I had been there even at 68 I would kick some ass and probably would have ended up in jail! It wouldn't have mattered what politics,race,religion!
They are prevalent in down down portland these days infact they think they occupy it. Whimpy Progressive mayor!
 
lol...between 4-14

Where's Devils Point?
I used to go to Taylors View Point decades ago....I was a sky pilot from hell then!

Amtrak usually has very cheap tickets to Seattle during December. Take them up there to see the Christmas decorations downtown. The Nordstrom mothership still has the killer window decorations. Also the remodeled Space Needle is now open.
 
lol..Thanks for the idea. We do Peacock every few years, its still nice. Im 68 and my folks used to take us there.
Great idea about having them help with the lights. I have a ranch style house which it has made it easy to do.
We did Alpenrose last year the first time in a while for me going there it was fantastic, they ad the Storybook Lane for kids that used to e at Lolyd Center back when it was new.
We are thinking about either the Oaks Park Christmas Express or the one in Hood River.
Either of those train rides sound great.
I remember when they first opened the Lloyd Center, that's where I shook the hands of Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy. Kennedy had a more firm grip. I try to make my grip the same as whoever is shaking my hand. We have a thing during every church service where we all go around greeting each other. I have to remain seated but some people such as most of the women, have a very weak grip so I do the same with them. One guy has a grip that reminds me of ZBo, it's like gripping a catcher's mit. This grip feels exceedingly powerful.

Did I ever tell you about my massive hands? And we all know what that means. Big hands, big . . .
 
Amtrak usually has very cheap tickets to Seattle during December. Take them up there to see the Christmas decorations downtown. The Nordstrom mothership still has the killer window decorations. Also the remodeled Space Needle is now open.
The opera house is there. They used to have "Der Ring des Nibelungen" every year. I took my wife there once. Damn, we thought we would be the best dressed ones there but we were just average. Beautiful experience.
They also used to have an amusement park. That would be a great place for kids.
The seafood market at Pike Place Market is spectacular. http://pikeplacemarket.org/
Also, they have tours of an underground part of the city near Eliot Bay. They explain the origin of Skid Road. The original Skid Road was in Seattle. http://www.undergroundtour.com/
 
If I had been there even at 68 I would kick some ass and probably would have ended up in jail! It wouldn't have mattered what politics,race,religion!
They are prevalent in down down portland these days infact they think they occupy it. Whimpy Progressive mayor!
I think you wouldn't have had to even spend a night in the slammer. You would have done the same thing I imagine that most people would have done. I once punched a guy for denigrating my wife's Asian accent and broken English. He didn't know I had been parking the car and catching up with her just as he said "You no reedy signy?" Pow, he saw I meant business and he apologized immediately. This was in spite of the fact that he was bigger and had his two large brothers with him. I didn't care. Now, imagine someone harassing your young loved one, they'd be toast. Had I been there, I'd have helped you. Well, that's not entirely true. For the last three and a half years I've been pretty much an invalid, still I'd have assumed a menacing stance.
 
Amtrak usually has very cheap tickets to Seattle during December. Take them up there to see the Christmas decorations downtown. The Nordstrom mothership still has the killer window decorations. Also the remodeled Space Needle is now open.
I think you wouldn't have had to even spend a night in the slammer. You would have done the same thing I imagine that most people would have done. I once punched a guy for denigrating my wife's Asian accent and broken English. He didn't know I had been parking the car and catching up with her just as he said "You no reedy signy?" Pow, he saw I meant business and he apologized immediately. This was in spite of the fact that he was bigger and had his two large brothers with him. I didn't care. Now, imagine someone harassing your young loved one, they'd be toast. Had I been there, I'd have helped you. Well, that's not entirely true. For the last three and a half years I've been pretty much an invalid, still I'd have assumed a menacing stance.
I know you stand against punk that harasses and gets physical with any ones wife, kids etc. This just being a man with backbone, imo! We need more of it these days also!
 
I know you stand against punk that harasses and gets physical with any ones wife, kids etc. This just being a man with backbone, imo! We need more of it these days also!
In my younger days, I've been known to intercede when I saw a defenseless woman get harassed. I would want someone to intercede if my wife got harassed and I wasn't around.
 
In my younger days, I've been known to intercede when I saw a defenseless woman get harassed. I would want someone to intercede if my wife got harassed and I wasn't around.
Right on!
 

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