Seasons & Holidays (San Diego, Julian: to move, areas, places)

[breeze823]

Originally Posted by sav858

They are, not sure what the other poster was talking about. July 4th is probably SD's biggest holiday and usually hundreds of thousands of people pack the beaches every year and well over a million over the course of the weekend. But it was fairly tame this year in Pacific Beach, where the biggest crowds are, due to the alcohol ban on the sand. Memorial Day is big too but not as big as July 4th, the weather that time of year can be hit or miss and this past May it was a miss b/c of cool temps and rain.

I think that what the poster meant is that other parts of the country are way more patriotic than socal. Not to say we aren't patriotic there too, but it's just more celebrated, or at least that has been my experience since leaving. It's not just about partyin'!

[automag1313]

do they still have candy cane lane in chula vista

[breeze823]

Originally Posted by automag1313

do they still have candy cane lane in chula vista

Aw, Candy Cane Lane, I totally forgot about that! That is one thing different since leaving SD is that both places we have lived since, don't do the big Christmas light displays, like a whole neighborhood like CC Lane, and El Cajon has a good one on Mollison and Santee also has one (if you can brave "klantee"...lol, just kidding, everyone on this forum hates Santee but me

[hanna_house]

Originally Posted by breeze823

Aw, Candy Cane Lane, I totally forgot about that! That is one thing different since leaving SD is that both places we have lived since, don't do the big Christmas light displays, like a whole neighborhood like CC Lane, and El Cajon has a good one on Mollison and Santee also has one (if you can brave "klantee"...lol, just kidding, everyone on this forum hates Santee but me

So, does this mean that SD isn't completely void of the Christmas spirit after all? I'd like to know what Christmas is like there if someone wouldn't mind elaborating.

[breeze823]

Originally Posted by hanna_house

So, does this mean that SD isn't completely void of the Christmas spirit after all? I'd like to know what Christmas is like there if someone wouldn't mind elaborating.

Of course it's not without Christmas Spirit. Christmas in San Diego is just like Christmas anywhere, except for snow. You can do your Christmas shopping in shorts and flip flops. Like I said, that was a big factor in us wanting to leave San Diego because we'd never experienced 4 seasons before. People in SD are just as Christmas-sy as people everywhere else.

[hanna_house]

Originally Posted by breeze823

Of course it's not without Christmas Spirit. Christmas in San Diego is just like Christmas anywhere, except for snow. You can do your Christmas shopping in shorts and flip flops. Like I said, that was a big factor in us wanting to leave San Diego because we'd never experienced 4 seasons before. People in SD are just as Christmas-sy as people everywhere else.

OK glad to know, because I've heard several people say how Christmas is the hardest time to live in SD and I didn't know if it was just because of the lack of snow or the lack of festivities. Thanks for clearing that up!

[CrissCT]

I forgot about the couple that opens up their home at Christmastime in Rancho Bernardo -"Santa's House". Definitely worth seeing even without kids. Every evening for about 2 weeks before Christmas they open up their home, and it is all free. They have hot cocoa and coffee. You may have to wait in line about an hour but it is worth it (there are plenty of decorations to look at while you wait).

Yes it was the weather that made Christmas difficult - not the lack of Christmas spirit. But after Christmas, when all your friends and family back home have bad weather you won't mind so much.

[breeze823]

Originally Posted by hanna_house

OK glad to know, because I've heard several people say how Christmas is the hardest time to live in SD and I didn't know if it was just because of the lack of snow or the lack of festivities. Thanks for clearing that up!

You have to have at least one Christmas at Disneyland, it's beautifully decorated for Christmas, crowded, but so worth it.
Also, Wild Animal Park always is very festive for Christmas and Sea World as well. We always had memberships for Sea World and the Zoo (which is also good for Wild Animal Park) and every Christmas season we'd go to both (can't remember the zoo doing much for Christmas, or we just didn't do the zoo for Christmas) but Santa always shows up at the Shamu show, in fun and different ways, by helicopter, motorcycle, etc...It was always one of our favorite things to do to start off the Christmas season!

[sav858]

I think it's mostly the weather that makes it feel less "Christmasy". When it's sunny (and winter is REALLY sunny here, the sunniest time of year actually) and 70 degrees it's hard for it to feel like a typical Christmas. I'm always in the Bay Area during X-mas and it feels more like X-mas b/c its colder but it's not anymore festive really with decorations or celebrations. But at least it's not Australia where it's basically like X-Mas in July b/c it's summer down there. There are X-Mas events going on though, Pacific Beach has a X-mas parade. And there are these wiener dog races that around X-mas as part of the Holiday Bowl celebrations that I've always wanted to go to but I'm always up in the Bay Area at that time visiting family. Also they have this huge Balloon Parade as part of the Holiday Bowl.

[jksouthbay88]

Originally Posted by automag1313

do they still have candy cane lane in chula vista

Candy cane lane has been gone for about 8 years now.Maybe even more.
Christmas Cir. on Mankato btwn 1st and 2nd is still here though.