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Oh you better watch out, don’t pout and don’t cry — why? Surfing Santa is coming to town. This weekend in Dana Point the annual Stand Up Paddle and Surfing Santa Competition (Nov.17-18, 2018) raises funds for Surfers Healing, a surf camp for children with autism.<\/p>\n
Eye candy abounds throughout this November weekend with events such as Cathedral City’s Hot Air Balloon Festival<\/a>, along with a Food Truck Mashup with the best food trucks from across the state of California.<\/p>\n Pasadena Doo Dah Parade<\/a>, one of the world’s craziest and most colorful, includes floats and participants you gotta’ see to believe.<\/p>\n If the color orange is your thing, head for Auburn’s annual Mandarin Festival<\/a>. Not only do the healthy fruits look enticing, but they smell so fragrant. Buy bags of locally grown mountain mandarins as a natural choice for your sinuses.<\/p>\n Gourds are delight when carved right.\u00a0Gourd Festival<\/a>\u00a0in Yucca Valley amazes the most creative with original art made out of a fruit.<\/p>\n The awesome\u00a0Fashion Island Tree Ceremony<\/a>\u00a0and lighting of what’s billed as the tallest holiday tree in the nation, doesn’t disappoint in a two day event so more can see it. Here’s a little secret: upon past inspections we’ve noticed that they used a real, cut tree and bore out limbs and branches, inserting artificial greenery and garland to keep it looking lively during Southern California’s dry, Santa Ana winds.<\/p>\n Finally, nothing beats an outdoor ice skating rink in California where you may see people gliding in shorts, tanks tops and even bikinis. This weekend the opening of\u00a0Downtown on Ice<\/a>\u00a0at Pershing Square (Los Angeles,) and\u00a0Ice Rink<\/a> at Liberty Station (San Diego,) offer great settings and old-fashioned fun.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Oh you better watch out, don’t pout and don’t cry — why? Surfing Santa is coming to town. This weekend in Dana Point the annual Stand Up Paddle and Surfing Santa Competition (Nov.17-18, 2018) raises funds for Surfers Healing, a surf camp for children with autism. Eye candy abounds throughout this November weekend with events […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25557"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25558,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25557\/revisions\/25558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}