Category: special events
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Franklin Square Holiday Lights
If you love Christmas lights, one of our family’s top 10 suggestions is to visit the Franklin Square Holiday Lights show. The park’s free annual Electrical Spectacular boasts 75,000 twinkling lights. Twice every hour, at the Kite Fountain centerpiece, the park comes alive with a high-energy music show. Colorful LED lights pulse in rhythm to a…
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Sakura Sunday
Fairmount Park’s Cherry Blossom festival on Sakura Sunday has become our annual rite of spring. It was gloriously warm for mid-April with 1,000 cherry trees lush with blooms. The event price is reasonable: it includes live music and dance, Japan House admission, fashion shows, hands-on culture demonstrations and rampant cosplay. Prettiest in Pink We headed straight to one of our favorite events,…
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Chinese New Year
This was our first year joining the Chinese New Year celebration in Philadelphia’s Chinatown. Happy Year of the Rooster and Gung Hay Fat Choy. Philadelphia Suns parade We headed to Chinatown to see the Philadelphia Suns‘ annual Lion Dance celebration. We arrived 10:30am on Sunday to an almost deserted street. As we took a walk around the block, the…
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Ghost Ship Tour
I’d recommend a Ghost Ship Tour as a uniquely spooky way to celebrate scare season. Battleship Olympia The USS Olympia, commissioned in 1895, is the oldest steel warship still afloat anywhere. It’s part of the Independence Seaport Museum. Our motley tour group was greeted at the Penn’s Landing gangplank by a proclaimed sailor’s daughter who would not share her name. She was…