Go on a luxurious ride via horse drawn carriage in Highland Park! This is the perfect Christmas and Thanksgiving family activity. Only $70 for your entire family (up to 6 adults and 3-5 children, provided children can sit on adults’ laps). Your 45 minute journey will begin in the parking lot of Kokomo Country Club and take you through Highland Park to see the beautiful Christmas lights. Make reservations early as rides will book up fast for the holidays. To book click on the “book now” button under the carriage ride information at: www.crownhavencenter.com

What: See the Highland park Christmas lights via luxurious horse drawn carriage.
When: Nov. 25 – Dec. 31, 3pm to 11pm
Duration: Rides are 45 minutes
Where: Meet in the parking lot of Kokomo Country Club (1801 Country Club Dr., Kokomo, IN 46902)
Cost: $70 for your entire family (up to 6 adults and 3-5 children, provided children can sit on adults’ laps).
What to bring: Warm clothes and blankets
How to book: https://www.crownhavencenter.com

Christmas at the Seiberling; Seiberling Mansion; Open Tuesday-Sunday 1-4 p.m. through Dec. 31 and select evenings; Tickets $10; Celebrating the “Different Decades of Christmas”, each area will be imaginatively decorated to show a different decade; And a free virtual tour of the decorated mansion with music and more will premier opening night, November 27, on https://www.facebook.com/HCHistory; For more details, call 765-452-4314 or visit
https://howardcountymuseum.org/programs/christmas-at-the-seiberling.

Kokomo Civic Theatre presents “The Game’s Afoot (or Holmes for the Holidays)”; IU Kokomo Havens Auditorium; Performances: Friday & Saturday 7:30 p.m. and Sunday 2 p.m.; It’s December 1936, and Broadway star William Gillette, known for playing Sherlock Holmes, has invited fellow cast members to his Connecticut castle for a weekend of revelry. But when one of the guests is stabbed to death, Gillette must assume the persona of Holmes to track down the killer before the next victim appears. The danger and hilarity are non-stop in this glittering whodunit set during
the Christmas holidays; Single tickets available online at www.kokomocivictheatre.org or call the KCT ticket line at 765-454-8800.

Journey thru Bethlehem is an interactive walk through the story of Jesus’ birth. Follow a guided tour of Bethlehem while traversing the many scenes related to His birth at First Evangelical Presbyterian Church. Open 5-8 p.m. both nights.

This is a free event, however donations of toiletries and/or canned goods will be accepted to be distributed locally.

What was the first Christmas like in Bethlehem? We invite you to step back in time more than 2,000 years, to experience the sights, sounds, smells, and atmosphere of the first Christmas.

Tour guides will lead walking tours, approximately every 15 minutes, through the bustling marketplace to Herod’s palace, to the dark hillside to meet the shepherds and their flocks who first heard the news of Jesus’s birth, to knock on the door at the inn, and to the stable where Mary and Joseph took shelter for Jesus’ birth.

Enjoy an Old Fashioned Christmas Parade through Main Street in downtown Kokomo on Saturday, Dec. 4.

Parade route begins at Walnut & Market Streets and ends at Main & Sycamore Streets.

Entries will include local marching bands, lighted floats featuring service organizations, local businesses and personalities, and of course Santa & Mrs. Claus. Parade starts at 6 p.m.

Christmas carolers will be singing on the “Stage on Main” from 4:30-8:30 p.m. Santa will visit with kids immediately after the parade until 9 p.m. in Santa’s house outside on the Courthouse Square.

There will also be a street train providing free rides around the Courthouse Square, free carriage rides downtown, and don’t miss Jingle John with his live reindeer after the parade! Kids can also write a “Letter to Santa.”