What's your favorite Holiday and Season?

[Anonymous]

Mine is Christmas and Winter.

[Adogdog]

I like Christmas and Winter too!

[Iron_Man]

Christmas

[Asker]

Same

[Iron_Man]

Nice

[Iron_Man]

Thank you for most helpful award

[Asker]

Your welcome

[nightdrot]

Easter Sunday and Spring/Summer by a million miles. To the former, it is like Christmas only in far better weather and without the blaring in your face intensity.

To be sure, in our family growing up it was a huge holiday. My mother decorated the house. She had a little Easter village with Bunny figurines, she had a wreath on the front door with an Easter there - flowers and colored eggs and a couple of Bunny figures, and suchlike.

We would get up and look for the Easter baskets that the Bunny had hidden. These had always been hand made by my mother and were wrapped in colored celophane with a big chocolate bunny in the center - in the Bicentennial year of 1976, I still remember this, it was "Peter Patriot." The Bunny also brought us a few wrapped presents as well - and again these were all hidden all over the house and we hand to hunt for them.

Then we would go to church - which to be fair as little kids we were not all that keen on. Then to my mother's parent's house for brunch and --- guess what? ------ the Easter Bunny happened to have visited there and we got another smaller basket and a couple more presents.

Then after that to my Dad's parent's house where there was a huge dinner party - probably 60 or so people, friends and cousins - that would go fairly late into the evening.

On top of all that, in those days the public schools actually gave you an Easter break that ran from Good Friday through the whole week after Easter Sunday. So you got home late on Easter night but knowing that you had a whole week ahead of you to do whatever you want. The weather was finally - we lived in Michigan - turning warm after a long winter and as little kids we were out to run and play all day. When I was I high school, my friends and I would make day trips to local parks and such.

Suffice to say I have nothing but fond memories and my girlfriend and I do essentially the same things with our own children. Plus we have the extra advantage of living in the Washington, DC area so the weather is generally even better than it was in Michigan.

(We also added our own tradition of driving across the Chesapeake Bay bridge - and then back across - "breaking the seal on beach season" we call it - and then going to Annapolis to walk around and maybe take a bay cruise. Then we go to her parent's for a dinner party.)

As I say, it is all the fun of Christmas but without the blaring in your face television commercials, the lousy cold weather, and the garish colors. (I much prefer Easter pastels to Christmas primary colors.)

So as far as I am concerned we can dispense with all the other holidays. As to my kids, (ages, 9,8, and 6) I have to admit that seeing their excitement at any of the holidays warms my heart - but I still have to admit that when I think back, even to my own surprise, it is the Easters that I get the most sentimental about.

As to Spring/Summer - In fact, if the universe were just and merciful, and man was not being punished for his sins, the year would begin on April 1 and end on August 31. Fall and Winter being the penalty Adam must endure because he ate of the Fruit of the Tree.

CONT.

[nightdrot]

Long days, beautiful flowers, pretty girls on the beach, the splendid fireworks display that come with a thunderstorm, the sounds of crickets filling the night, backyard Bar-b-q's, the smell of freshly cut grass, Easter Sunday - my favorite holiday, visits by the ice cream man, the rush you get from plunging into the pool on a sweltering day, beautiful long sunsets, the sight of dew glistening on the lawn in the morning light, walks in the park... the list goes on.

Keep your dreary dark - and short - days. Keep your bone chilling cold. Keep the icy roads as you risk life and limb getting to work.

Oh, and Fall? Those pretty colored leaves? They're dead. That's they look that way. The days get shorter as all hope is lost.

So put me down for Spring or Summer. Oh, and as you can tell, I don't have especially strong views on this one.

[TheLastRhodesian]

Winter, because there is more rain and everything turns green.

[Asker]

Same

[Horse-girl]

My favourite holiday is the summer break, my favourite season is summer. I do love Christmas and winter too though.

[exitseven]

I like 4th of July. Cookouts, nice weather, fireworks and going to the beach.

[IsoUser]

To be perfectly honest I have always preferred Fall and Winter months but then again that's just me.

[FunkyMonkee]

4th of July, Christmas and Halloween.

[Ringstretch]

Summer, I love feeling warm

[Dat-Alpha-Lion]

Holiday: Thanksgiving. Season: spring.

[whereismyjohnny]

Christmas and fall.

[BCRanger10]

Easter and summer.

[XXblack88]

Christmas and summer

[Avgbrisbaneguy]

Summertime