I can't bring myself to drive the kids up to the snow solo, but Ballard is easy and fun. The principal harpist for Pacific Northwest Ballet lives this cute house near Golden Gardens, and he displays up the figures from the retired Sendak/PNB production every year. So cool! Story here.

Olympic Manor is less than a mile east, and walking around that neighborhood was way better than any of the ticketed holiday light drive-throughs we've seen this year.

To the people who live in Olympic Manor and created these incredible light displays, THANK YOU. It took a lot of work to set them up (and it'll take an impressive SPU bill to keep them going). We loved them all.