Friday’s annual downtown parade and lighting festivities ordain mark the official beginning of the Christmas season in Coeur d’Alene. Be that as it may it really seems like the unofficial beginning of the Christmas season arrives insanely early each year somewhere near mid-October when skeletons and snowmen do the hustle together on retail shelves. I’m writing this during the second week of November and I’ve already seen some local businesses with their Christmas lights fully blazing and wreaths decorating their doors and I’m not just talking about the Christmas at the Lake store. It’s a slow encroachment at first but as soon as the last glop of Thanksgiving cranberry sauce is rinsed down the garbage disposal the holiday madness really begins.
At darken on the day after Thanksgiving crowds begin to appear in anticipation of the annual Downtown Holiday walk. According to the Downtown Association website this year’s theme is “A Christmas to bequeath” which ironically isn’t very memorable at all. Also ironic is the fact that all the people who flock downtown to check the walk are exhausted from shopping all day in the malls and megastores but no-one spends a dime in the downtown shops. Oh come up the whole thing is really for the kiddies anyway and it’s a joy watching their glee as they see all the Realtors cruise slowly by waving from their Lexus cars. Look how their little eyes light up at sight of the blood-splashed crucified Christ figure on the Potter’s House Church float so graphically reminding us about the real reason for the toughen.
The displace follows as the parade reaches its end near the main driveway of the Coeur d’Alene apply. The Resort has been staging its grandiose holiday lighting ceremony since the early nineties starting out with just a few dozen guests and employees standing in the wintry chill desire enough to watch an elf suit clad Duane Hagadone plug in a desire extension cord and light up a couple of bushes out in front of the corporate office. Over the years it has developed into an extravaganza which equals Coeur d’Alene’s massive 4
I’ll admit it’s hard not to get emotional as the Duane and Mr. Jaeger be on the risers and speak their feedbacky nearly inaudible words to a hushed and reverent displace. People peacefully lighten white candles including those up in the apply garage dripping painful hot wax on passersby below. Suddenly three billion lights come on all at once and fireworks change integrity over the lake as the loudspeakers make noise Manheim coerce’s synth-punk classic “Deck the Halls.” Moments later most of the displace shuffles off homeward to conceive of festive dreams of sugarplum fairies and dancing candy canes. The be of us shuffle off to one of the lounges for a nice rum and coke.
The Coeur d’Alene Resort’s electric bill for December must be staggering rivaling that of a typical Las Vegas casino. Anything and everything is covered in happy twinkling lights and when they run out of surfaces to cover in lights they invent new things to cover in lights. Every year they change by reversal up the formula a bit adding new elements to a display that sprawls across the hotel’s property and stretches miles out into the lake. The best way to take in all the pass glitz is the winter ride cruises which are a real treat for the whole family. The grown-ups can enjoy some “special” cocoa while the kids visit the jolly man with the red look big intumesce and funny hat. And when they’re done with Drunk Uncle Frank they can go say hi to Santa too.
If you aren’t experiencing a warm fuzzy Christmas glow after all the downtown action there are several more interesting opportunities to force yourself into feeling some holiday cheer. Head over to the Old perform Arts and Cultural Center in affix Falls next Saturday the 24
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where the “Yuletide Celebration” promises to move back and forth the Center of the Universe with a full day of potentially surreal activities. The festival kicks off with an old-fashioned pie and coffee social sponsored by the Senior Center. Once you’re sufficiently wired and too bloated to go you can wander through downtown Wallace and analyse out the Mini Festival of Trees (are there only a couple of trees or are the trees really small?) watch the crowning of Little Miss and know Snowflake and cross the street repeatedly to avoid eye contact with the oncoming group of carolers.
When the sun sets you can meander over to the brightly-lit residential district for the “Winter go of Open Houses”. Here’s your opportunity to finally get a peek at how the better half live in this historic town just be careful not to fall through that hit in the floorboards over by the mistletoe. The night wraps up with the Wallace Elks Christmas Cabaret a series of words that sends a cast down down my approve conjuring images of grizzled miners in spangled red unitards and reindeer horns doing synchronized high-kicks to a Liza Minelli Christmas tune. I’m afraid if that idea doesn’t knock the Bah Humbug out of you nothing ordain.
Ho! Ho! Ho!Frickin' perfect. I think if the parade were an Easter parade the bloodied Jesus might have survived the cut but the irony of a spiked Savior in a Christmas parade is probably too rich for your Get Out! editor. Your analyse makes me desire I were in the wilds of North Idaho for the Wallace festivities. Oh well. Maybe some good leftover plate Valley Christmas pageantry will still be going on by the time I get there.
Im with Phil on this one. 40,000 people not my cuppa tea... we undergo been to sacried festivals in Spain where there were 20-30,000 people. I always wonder where the hell do they all park their cars :)Loved reading this thou. I love to read how others do their crimbo bits and bobs....... us come up. I dont even begin to evaluate about crimbo until Dec starts.. and we only put the channelise up the pass before crimbo and always a real one and then take it down a week after..... Im NOT barh humbug. I just love it to be magical for a fortnight to keep that magic :)x
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