Get out: weekend starting 11/30

What's happening this weekend in Columbia City?  Well first and foremost, snow!  (err..well...maybe).  I'm sure there will be enough to cause our very own Danger Jim to pontificate on the airwaves about how we're all going to die as our driving skills are overmatched by natures fury of five snowflakes.

Other less dangerous activities happening this weekend:

• Musica Entertainment's Santa's North Pole Wonderland Extravaganza and Toy Drive.  10:30 am on December 1st at the Columbia city Theater.
• Give the kids something to do with a free ornament making party at Retroactive Kids from 3 to 6 on Saturday, and see the tree get lit up from 6 to 7:30.  I hear Santa might make it over to KC Flowers later in the evening.
• Graham Hill work party.  On both saturday and sunday from 9 to 1, they'll have a crew painting the interior, one making bulliten boards for Kindergarten tours, one outside weeding, pruning and planting. Childcare and food stuffs will be provided. Sweat equity and/or financial donations to cover the cost of paint appreciated.
• The verve wine bar and Andaluz boutique present the first annual Columbia City Sip and Shop.  Sample a vast array of festive wines while perusing some of the most eclectic gift items in Seattle compliments of Andaluz.  Sunday, from 2 to 7 at the Verve Wine Bar and Andaluz, $10 for wine tasting, appetizers, and shopping.
• The Mt Baker Rowing and Sailing Center is having their grand opening celebration for their newly finished expansion and renovation.  Sunday starting at 4.
• There will also be a luminaria at Seward Park on sunday.  Setup starts at 2, with candles lit at 4:20.
• The christmas ships are coming!  The christmas ships are coming!  You should be able to see them at either of the above two events.  They're scheduled to hit (well, not literally) the Ferdinand street boat ramp between 5:50 and 6:10, and Stan Sayres park (where mt baker rowing and sailing club is) between 6:25 and 6:45.

And one last dangerous one:

• Coyote sightings!  They've been all over the place in our little neck of the woods, with one of the more recent sightings being at the corner of 46th and S Hudson.  Just remember not to pet strange dogs!

There are so many interesting things going on in the neighborhood, don't let your weekend go to the dogs!