By Alli Schieber
Features Editor
The holidays can be stressful for people with family coming to their homes, shopping to find the perfect gift for their loved ones and cooking big meals for everyone to enjoy.
The holidays are also a time where families get together and reminisce on good times they have had with their loved ones and have many different traditions families do each year.
Some of my favorite Christmas traditions are helping my grandma cook for the holidays, eating cheeseburger and tortilla soup on Christmas Eve and also moving my three sister’s mattresses to the same room and sleeping in there together on Christmas Eve then waking up super early and opening our stockings before waking up our parents.
Other things that people do during the holidays include ice skating, looking at Christmas lights and watching Christmas movies.
According to an article from Entertainment Weekly, these are the top five best Christmas movies, the 1966 version of “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” “Elf,” “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” “A Christmas Story” and “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
All of these movies are Christmas classics that many people watch every year.
There are several things to do in Oklahoma during the Holidays including going to the one Christmas tree in Enid.
Opening night for the one is Sunday, there will be free burgers, chips and drinks starting at 4 p.m. and food trucks for other options as well as an ice rink and of course the tree lighting ceremony at 5:30 p.m.
There will also be a light and music show of the tree at 7 p.m. and will be playing three songs at the top of each hour until midnight.
Other Christmas events in Oklahoma include the Nutcracker Ballet in Oklahoma City and Tulsa. As well as several walk and drive through Christmas lights all over Oklahoma some notable ones are Yukon Christmas in the park and Chickasha Festival of Light.
You can also ride the Polar Express, which is a train that departs from Stillwater and is an hour round trip that recreates the movie magic.
Kingfisher also has a train that goes through their drive through Christmas lights known as Kingfisher Winter Nights. I love going to this every year and have been several times with my family.
