holiday goodness coming up

so the end of 2008 is upon us but the cool events keep comin':
-tomorrow, thursday december 4, sheila dixon and co. will kick off the holiday season in baltimore with the annual lighting of the washington monument in mt. vernon. festivities start at 5:30 and include fireworks!
-parade of lighted boats in the inner harbor, this saturday december 6 from 5-8 pm
-merry mart, the creative alliance holiday craft sale, will be held on sunday december 7 from 11-5 at their lovely highlandtown space.
-also on december 7, local t-shirt company squidfire is hosting their DIY art mart at the lyric opera house in mount royal from 12-6:30.
-and also on sunday december 7 is the 37th annual mayor's christmas parade in hampden! even if you can't make it to the 2:00 function, make sure you stop by hampden's legendary 34th street to see the wonderful lights!
-binge, a letterpress printing demo, open studio and sale on december 14 from 12-8 in hampden.

now if only we didn't have finals to deal with...