Festival of Trees Farmtown Park

At 66 I thought maybe I’m too old to sit on Santa’s lap? But he insisted and who am I to argue with Nick lol.

We have so many Christmas festivals, entertainments, you name it. There is always so much to do in our area. I will probably have another Christmasy Stuff post in 2-3 weeks.

I love Festival of Trees. Do you have them where you live? Every little community has one. So what happens? Business will supply a fully decorated tree or sometimes just gifts like BBQ’s or lawn chairs and then you can buy tickets, write you name/phone number on them and stick them into the box by whatever tree or item you hope to win. I do not win, sadly, but I still enjoy going. Our two favourite Festival of trees are at Farmtown park in Stirling and at Isaiah Tubbs Resort in The County (aka Prince Edward County) We are going to that one next weekend.

Farmtown is a wonderful place, a huge building and down either side (inside) are boardwalks and old timey stores and for the Festival they put the trees and other items down the middle on either side.

Just outside the building
I love this old gas pump
Another view
You can stroll down the boardwalks and look into the old stores
We did put a ticket in the box for this one
So many trees

A week or two ago, on a Friday night, Stirling also has an outdoor Christmas market. I love going to that one too. This year it was raining as we drove there but as soon as we parked, it stopped ! It is all outside but also the downtown stores stay open late as well.

Covered bridge to enter the downtown area
More lights
Christmas Lights
So many vendors
I look as though I hate this Snowman but I don’t lol
Inside the local coffee shop

This afternoon we went to the Old Church. If you read my Blog, you know it is my favourite entertainment venue. They always have such great entertainment and at Christmas they go all out.

Today we went to see Heartlight Band, they were terrific and next week we are back to see Bassett band as well as the Weber Brothers, Seventh Town and a fantastic reading of Charles Dickens Christmas Carol. I will post about these events after we go to them!