Refuel at Friesen’s Bakery and Bistro with “Spokato” soup (potato, kale and sausage), sandwiches on homemade breads, and desserts including killer moon pies, berry scones and over-the-top slices of pie baked into a cake (1-50 ). Newcomer Whimsy & Weathered opens extra weekends in December to sell creative upcycled decor. mixes oils, vinegars and sauces, and Salvage Sisters brings together local art, home decor and baby clothes and accessories. Gallery 512 sells women’s fashions, Arizona Oil Co. Curiosi-Tea pours tea samplers and sells loose teas such as the popular pistachio shortbread, while Mary Lue’s Yarn and Ewe draws knitters to its shelves of soft skeins near the Nicollet Bike Shop. Several boutiques dotting Mankato’s Old Town on Riverfront Drive reported their best Small Business Saturday ever last month. Admission is free, but donations are encouraged (). Sunday through Thursday and until 10 p.m. Kiwanis Holiday Lights opens from 5 to 9 p.m. Sibley Park sits at the confluence of the Blue Earth and Minnesota rivers and also offers a stellar sledding hill. Schell’s Brewery in New Ulm is decked out for the holidays. Mrozek said he was looking forward to a blanket of fresh snow, which adds an element of magic to the display, where almost a dozen wedding proposals occurred last year. Others arrived on foot for a more leisurely stroll, a chance to visit with Santa, watch four reindeer in temporary residence, and walk a loop that includes a 55-foot-tall Christmas tree, a tunnel of lights, a skating rink, a farm-themed playground and more than 75 themed trees decorated by local nonprofits. Visitors arrived by the hundreds on a Saturday night, in a steady flow of cars doing a drive-through tour. The event, in its sixth year, requires about five intense weeks to install, plus plenty of bucket trucks and volunteers who aren’t afraid of heights or surprised squirrels, said Kyle Mrozek, vice president of the Kiwanis. Other lights tightly coil around tree trunks or zigzag like Lite-Brite scribbles through towering branches, creating an almost Seussian wonderland. Red, green and blue bulbs shaped into deer seem to trot up the park’s hillside. It outshines a July 4th grand finale, with an estimated 1.5 million lights. “Whoooa!” yells a little girl.Īdults are known to blurt the same thing when they first see the explosion of color from Kiwanis Holiday Lights. As they round the corner to Mankato’s Sibley Park, reactions ripple from preschoolers scrambling ahead, then stopping in their tracks.
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