What now?
The relatives are all arriving-or you're descending on their house-and you don't know how to keep the kids amused.
Of course you can:
Check out the amazing light displays nearby.
Visit a local museum, zoo or aquarium where there are special holiday 
festivities. Chicago's Museum of Science and industry celebrates Christmas Around the World with more than 50 trees decorated to represent various cultures and traditions, for example. The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, CO is decorated with over one million holiday lights.
Go back in time at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut where you can walk through an illuminated 19th century maritime village on the Lantern Light Tours.
Head to the nearest sledding hill or ski slope-assuming there is snow.
You can also head to a theme park where you'll find plenty of holiday cheer and even snow in California and Florida. Across the country, theme parks are adding new and bigger holiday attractions every year, enticing more and more families to come through the gates, even though it can be a costly afternoon or evening.
If you are lucky, you may get a deal. Pay for a day now at SeaWorld San Diego and get 2015 free; in nearby Carlsbad, LEGOLAND California offers a free ticket to return when you come to see the giant LEGO Christmas tree and Winter Nights.
The town of Hershey does its own 2-mile Sweet Lights while HersheyPark's festivities include visits with Santa's reindeer and special entertainment.
People come from all over California for Disneyland's "A Christmas Fantasy Parade with the "Frozen" princesses, fireworks show that ends with snowfall, holiday tamales and the "It's a Small World Holiday" with more than 30,000 lights and children from around the world singing holiday songs.
Busch Gardens boasts Christmas town with more than a million lights-Tampa Bay's biggest Christmas celebration. (Look for deals online!)
Orlando, of course, is Theme Park Holiday Central. VisitOrlando.comreports the parks add new holiday attractions every year, making the holidays one of the most popular time to visit, whether you are at Universal Orlando, Walt Disney World, SeaWorld or LEGOLAND.
Every night at Universal Studios Florida, the Macy's Holiday Parade showcases the same balloons seen in the Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York and families flock to Universal's Islands of Adventure for the live retelling of Dr. Seuss' classic holiday tale, "Grinchmas Who-liday Spectacular."
Happy Holidays!
