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It's not Christmas without lights, a Festival of Lights
Holiday decorations, Christmas tree, cookies, Christmas market, mulled wine, Christmas songs, Advents calendar, Christmas lights... it's not Christmas without any of these! To be honest, the most wonderful time of the year for me is the prep work: the decorating, the baking, the perfect gift hunting, the parties, the ugly sweaters (and pretty ones, too), the music, and all the Holiday festivities. 
In Silver Spring, MD and beyond there's no shortage of Holiday activities, beginning just around Thanksgiving and lasting until the New Year... from Holly Jolly Food Truck Festivals to Tree lighting ceremonies; from Holiday Open Houses to Santa's workshops; from Holiday performances to ice-skating; from Christmas tree farms to Holiday trains & trams; from Holiday themed Happy Hours to Festival of Lights. 
Visiting one or more Festival of Lights has become one of the annual must-do activities for my little family... especially when the weather is perfect (read: a just-cold-enough-winter's-eve that makes it seem like the stars are an extension of the Holiday lights), and we have a cup of hot cocoa warming our hands and bellies. 
There are a quite a few Festivals/light displays that we have admired over the years (Downtown Columbia, Wheaton Botanical Garden, Sandy State Park, Zoo Lights, ... more

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