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Holiday calendar of activities in Seattle filled with shopping and travel deals: December 2009
November 25th, 2009 | 
Author: December 2009, the most wonderful time of the year, for shopping , entertainment, activities with family and loved ones, dining out and more, in downtown Seattle. Seattle has some of the best shopping, the best food, and the best entertainment in the United States. If you have not visited Seattle before, the holidays are a great time to make your list, check it twice and come to Seattle, whether you are naughty or nice. There is something for everyone in downtown Seattle. Read More…. Holiday calendar of activities in Seattle filled with shopping and travel deals: December 2009
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Holiday calendar of activities in Seattle filled with shopping and travel deals
Traveling into downtown Seattle for activities and shopping for the holidays? Check out this list of activities and opportunities for holiday shopping, dining and enjoyment. Updates to this list will be made through out the upcoming days so check back often or subscribe to Seattle Travel Industry Examiner by clicking the ”Subscribe” button above. Read more… Holiday calendar of activities in Seattle filled with shopping and travel deals
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Celebrate the 250th Anniversary of Guinness Storehouse on September 24, 2009
I actually have been drinking beer since I was old enough to sit with my father and sip out of his bottle of cold brew. My mother always frowned at him and we’d sneak around to allow me that cold sip on a hot summer day. I laugh when I say that we’d be out in the fields, my father working and me watching, and he’d send me to the house in the late afternoon to bring him a beer. I would either open it there at the house and get the first sip, or manage to get 2 bottles out and drink one on the way to the field. There was a sink hole on the way and I would dump my empty bottle into it to “hide” the fact I had had one. Did I really think he did not know?
So I am telling you this story because I just found out about the Guinness festival in Dublin on September 24, 2009. It celebrates the 250th anniversary of Arthur Guinness signing a 9,000 year (yep, that is right, 9000 years) lease on St. James Gate Brewery. You can read all about it in my National Romance Travel Examiner article. Now we were not drinking Guinness when I was a child. We were drinking a domestic bottled beer, but I have in adulthood learned to enjoy many different kinds of beers and I intend to figure out what time it is in Seattle when it is 17:59 in Dublin and be lifting a glass of Guinness just because!
The pictures below are compliments of the press gallery on the Guinness Storehouse website. I hope you enjoy, and think about reading my article and join me in lifting a glass, no matter where you are, on September 24 at 17:59 Dublin time!
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Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween!
Halloween has always been my “New Year’s Eve”. Halloween translates into “All Hallow’s Eve”. According to Halloween in “Wiki-pedia”:
The term Halloween (and its alternative rendering Hallowe’en) is shortened from All-hallow-even, as it is the evening of/before “All Hallows’ Day”, also known as “All Saints‘ Day”. It was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions, until Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV moved the old Christian feast of All Saints’ Day from May 13 to November 1. In the ninth century,the Church measured the day as starting at sunset, in accordance with the Florentine calendar. Although All Saints’ (or Hallows’) Day is now considered to occur one day after Halloween, the two holidays were, at that time, celebrated on the same day. Liturgically, the Church traditionally celebrated that day as the Vigil of All Saints, and, until 1970, a day of fasting as well. Like other vigils, it was celebrated on the previous day if it fell on a Sunday, although secular celebrations of the holiday remained on the 31st. The Vigil was suppressed in 1955, but was later restored in the post-Vatican II calendar.
Even as a child, I enjoyed dressing up in a costume & being “scared” by the other participants in the festivities of the evening. Perhaps being raised in an Irish-Catholic environment and attending a parochial school influenced my enjoyment of Halloween – the next day was a “day-off” from school, and it was my birthday. It was like having a 48 hour birthday celebration!
Think of all the places one can go to celebrate the All Hallow’s Eve/Halloween event! Like Tombstone, Arizona or Cape Fear, North Carolina. So “Trick, Treat or Travel!”
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