The Cedar Rapids Downtown District and Freedom Festival are presenting this year’s Fire & Ice Festival on Saturday December 6.
Things to note for this year include a new parade route, free carriage rides, children’s train rides, huge balloons in the parade, and much more!
Entries Tagged as ‘Celebrating the four seasons’
December 3, 2008
Kick off the Holiday Season with Cedar Rapids’ 4th Annual Fire and Ice Festival
Filed under Celebrating the four seasons, Community Events
October 21, 2008
Leaf-peeping in the Corridor
Here are some pictures from the beautiful fall foliage we’ve experienced here in the corridor the last few weeks.
If you haven’t had the chance yet, get out and enjoy this beautiful October!
Filed under Celebrating the four seasons, Why it's great to live here
October 17, 2008
Fall Foliage Hits the Corridor
So many people travel to New England to see the amazing colors of Fall, but if you haven’t noticed, it’s quite gorgeous around here right now.
I heard on the news that this weekend will be Eastern Iowa’s peak in terms of color, so let’s all go out and take some pictures of the beautiful reds, [...]
October 16, 2008
Corridor Area Pumpkin Patches and Other Kid-friendly Halloween Activities
Looking for something to do this fall with your little pumpkins? The corridor offers a ton of fun activities from apple orchards, to pumpkin patches, to safe trick-or-treating. Here’s a list of activities I compiled. Feel free to comment if you’ve visited any of these, and let me know if I missed any good ones!
Knight’s [...]
September 29, 2008
Apple Picking and Pumpkin Patches
Recently I had the opportunity to take my Girl Scout Troop to a local apple orchard, Honey Creek Acres. I have lived in Cedar Rapids for 8 years now, and was unaware that this great opportunity was less than 5 minutes from my home on the SW side.
Honey Creek Acres has just recently re-opened. The [...]
Filed under Celebrating the four seasons, Stuff for kids to do
Tags: outdoors, Stuff for kids to do
