{"id":25763,"date":"2019-02-11T12:44:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T20:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25763"},"modified":"2019-02-11T12:44:19","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T20:44:19","slug":"kilts-chaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/kilts-chaps\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilts, Chaps and Harem Pants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/scofests.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Is it the weekend yet? Not quite &#8212; but when it comes, it will flip your kilt at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/long-beach-scottish-festival.html\">ScotsFestival and Highland Games<\/a> Feb.16-17, 2019 on the grounds and inside the ship at Queen Mary in Long Beach. From tasty foods to high-spirited beverages, marching bagpipe bands to men (and women) in kilts performing tricks like caber toss, hammer throw and shot put, you and the kids will be amazed.<\/p>\n<p>Whiskey&#8217;s definitely a theme going on this weekend as you can also enjoy another type of entertainment with different sports, clothes and culture at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/kernville-whiskey-flat-days.html\">Whiskey Flat Days<\/a> in Kernville Feb.15-18. Themed &#8220;Boots, Chaps and Cowboy Hats,&#8221; highlights of this event held every Presidents Day Weekend include a Parade, Wild West Daze Rodeo, Wild West Encampment, Carnival Rides, Frog Jumping Contests, Whiskey Flat Mayor Contest, Epitaph, Costume and Whiskerino Contests, Line Dancing, Pet Parade, Gunfighter Skits and much more!<\/p>\n<p>If neither of these events appeal to your entertainment tastes, maybe you&#8217;ll enjoy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/palm-desert-greek-festival.html\">Palm Desert Greek Festival<\/a>, known for its signature Mediterranean foods cooked over open fires. Lamb is among our favorites at this event held Feb.16-17.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/chinese-san-diego.html\">Chinese New Year<\/a> is on tap in Downtown San Diego Feb.16-17, with the Lion Dance, Asian entertainment and something called Story Theater. Along those lines, Santa Monica Place hosts Lunar New Year Celebration Feb.16 with K-Pop and Korean Fan Dancers, music and Wishing Trees. In Ventura over 7,500 lanterns light up the night for the Lantern Street Festival Feb.16.<\/p>\n<p>African American entertainment includes Black History Parade &amp; Festival in Pasadena Feb.16, while Black Choreographers Festival Feb.16-17 takes place in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, don&#8217;t forget <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/indio-date-festival.html\">Date Festival<\/a>\u00a0Feb.15-24, paying homage to Arab culture with camel races and the veiled Queen Scheherazade dressed in harem pants appearing in Arabian Nights Musical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it the weekend yet? Not quite &#8212; but when it comes, it will flip your kilt at the ScotsFestival and Highland Games Feb.16-17, 2019 on the grounds and inside the ship at Queen Mary in Long Beach. From tasty foods to high-spirited beverages, marching bagpipe bands to men (and women) in kilts performing tricks [&hellip;]<\/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\/25763"}],"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=25763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25764,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25763\/revisions\/25764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}