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The sidewalks are covered in ice and the temps are sneaking down to the single digits. That's perfect weather for toting a toddler around, right? Here are three (free!) reasons to spend that extra hour bundling your kid up this weekend.
Christkindlmarket is a candy-cane striped Bavarian winter village deposited into Daley Plaza. Come to gawk at the expensive, often hand-made gifts, and snack on traditional German fare. The children's lantern parade is today at 4 p.m.; check out their performance schedule to see when some of the city's best choirs will perform.
Christkindlmarket is open daily until December 24th at 11 a.m.
Lincoln Park Zoo strings up their annual Zoo Lights and invites visitors onto their grounds after hours. Bring the family for dinner and hot cocoa (“spiced wine” for the adults), then decorate gingerbread people and watch ice carvers give you a new appreciation for the cold stuff. Our favorite part of Zoo lights happens indoors: the Big Cat House is open, giving you a rare look at what these nocturnal animals are like at night.
Zoo Lights festivities are on weekends from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., and from December 14 to January 1, they'll open every day except Christmas Eve and Day.
We think people singing Christmas carols with choirs at Cloud Gate is a scene meant for a snow globe; join in at 6 p.m. on Friday nights. Bring along your skates (or fork over $9 for rentals) and take your kids ice skating on the free rink before the show. Starbucks gets into the spirit by giving away free peppermint hot cocoas to warm little hands refusing to wear mittens.
Ice sculptures captured by Seg Fault.
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Oh, now we have to put up with kids at the Zoo?!?!
Christmas activities for kids?!? Can't we save anything for adults.
Next thing your going to tell me that Santa isn't real and I should stop getting my picture taken with him!
It was always a tradition for Le Spook to find some desperate chick, hop on ye olde blue line and head down to the Christkindlmarket to by Holiday Gifts ( mostly for me) while getting drunk. It’s the only time when I mix with suburbanites. But ever the years Christkindlmarket gets worse! it use to be international. I brought Shona soap stone statues from Ghana, lamps, sweaters, and incents, and bowls from Tibet , some of the coolest Belgium sweaters with two six foot scarves. Now it’s full of cheap Ecuadorian stuff and mostly over priced trinkets to satifisy tastes that range from between Berwyn to Schaumburg. And the food? Two tiny/skinny bratwurst on a bun WTF?
But that’s what happened when Daley charges ridiculously high vendor fees. This year its continued to decline. Next year they will probably get ride of the beer!
It was always a tradition for Le Spook to find some desperate chick, hop on ye olde blue line and head down to the Christkindlmarket to by Holiday Gifts ( mostly for me) while getting drunk. It’s the only time when I mix with suburbanites. But ever the years Christkindlmarket gets worse! it use to be international. I brought Shona soap stone statues from Ghana, lamps, sweaters, and incents, and bowls from Tibet , some of the coolest Belgium sweaters with two six foot scarves. Now it’s full of cheap Ecuadorian stuff and mostly over priced trinkets to satifisy tastes that range from between Berwyn to Schaumburg. And the food? Two tiny/skinny bratwurst on a bun WTF?
But that’s what happened when Daley charges ridiculously high vendor fees. This year its continued to decline. Next year they will probably get ride of the beer!