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  Social Event: 6th Annual Social Wave Holiday Lights Bus Tour
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A 4 Hour Bus Tour , Campbell
Date: Fri, Dec 14th
Time: 6:30pm - 10:30pm
Cost: $20

6th Annual Social Wave Holiday Lights Bus Tour (public event)

About the Host
Sheldon
Sheldon
Lives: Campbell, CA
Work: Freelance Web Developer
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This event has passed and RSVPs can no longer be submitted, but you can still post a message to this event's discussion thread.

UPDATE: We are fully booked! Sorry! If you're interested in coming, please post a message here or email me directly and I'll put you on the waiting list.




Get in the holiday spirit and come join other Social Wave members on our most unique social event of the year! It's our annual Winter Wonderland Bus Trip. We'll cruise around town in a 40 passenger fun bus, checking out some of the best Christmas light displays in the South Bay. Halfway through, we'll take a 1 hour stop at Christmas in the Park in Downtown SJ. After that, it's back on the bus for more light displays as we zig zag our way back to Sheldon and Mary's house for an easy going after hours mingler with hot drinks and desserts, and assorted diversions.

Our bus has an interesting seating arrangement!

Check out pictures of houses that may be in this year's tour:
2007 Photos2006 Photos2005 Photos

icons_xmas_wreath.gif Winter Wonderland Bus Itinerary: icon_xmas_ornament.gif
  • 6:30 - 6:50pm: Mingle, have drinks at Sheldon & Mary's. BYOB.
  • 6:50pm: Boarding Call!
  • 7:00 - 8:00pm: Lights Tour Leg 1 (with stops to get out)
  • 8:00 - 9:00pm: Have fun at Xmas in the Park SJ
  • 9:00 - 10:30pm: Lights Tour Leg 2 (with stops to get out)
  • ~ 10:30pm: Hot Chocolate, Cider, Desserts, Diversions at Sheldon & Mary's

Ticket Price: $20

To reserve a spot on the bus, please make your payment online or contact me to arrange to pay by check or cash.



Event Tags: Culture, Entertainment

A 4 Hour Bus Tour , Campbell

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posted by Sheldon on 11/12/07

  YES (42 guests)   MAYBE (4 guests)   NO (2 guests)
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  • Guest: Murali - (guests: 2)


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ArsNova
Domestic Goddess / House Elf in Campbell, CA
Of course I'll be there!

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empresslaura
Sales for Residential Elevators & Stairlifts in Campbell
Alexandra was asking about it :-) And we are bringing our foreign exchance student from Hong Kong. Thanks for the opportunity of sharing this with her :-)

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Bhaney
Technician in San Jose, CA
Rebecca and I will be there.

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Sheldon
Freelance Web Developer in Campbell, CA
Ok everyone, you can go ahead and pay for your seats now and confirm you spot on the bus. Look for the payment buttons in the event posting.

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mobyfan
Sales Support in Campbell, CA
Glad to see you're doing this again, although I probably won't have the energy to join you. I don't think I can brave the cold either! It's 41 right now, and it's not even winter yet!

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Sheldon
Freelance Web Developer in Campbell, CA
I'm adding me Pa and his wife to the bus.

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jsherred
microprocessor circuit design/analysis CAD in Campbell, CA
Looks like a load of fun! Would likely bring a friend if i attend.

- jonathan

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Sheldon
Freelance Web Developer in Campbell, CA
We're experiencing some problems with getting messages posted that that are entered in when RSVPs are being made, but they're getting through to me, the event organizer. I should have this problem fixed within a day or two. In the meantime, if you click on the "Add Reply" button at the bottom, you message will get posted to the event discussion thread.

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Sheldon
Freelance Web Developer in Campbell, CA
Email Update:

Ok, we have 28 RSVPs made for the Winter Wonderland Bus Tour so far. That means that I'm going to change the format of the event slightly to accomodate everyone. Instead of that 21 passenger executive bus, we're going with a 40 passenger fun bus. The 40 passenger isn't as plush as the other bus, but it's plenty comfortable and it also allows me to drop the price to $20 a head.

For everyone who's paid the $30 price through PayPal, I'm issuing you a $10/per ticket refund today.

If you haven't paid yet, please pay online via PayPal now or make other arrangements with me to help me cover my costs of doing this.

We have 12 seats left. Feel free to invite some friends along to come see dozens of unbelievable Christmas and Holiday light displays that I'll have spent weeks scoping out.

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Sheldon
Freelance Web Developer in Campbell, CA
Email Update:

Hi everyone,

Due to a couple of cancellations and a couple of pending cancellations, we've got plenty of room on the bus. If you've thought about inviting friends, but didn't want to take up too many seats, don't worry. We've got at least 14 seats available right now. Go ahead and invite away to anyone who you think would enjoy an evening of touring some of the best Holiday and Christmas Displays in the South Bay.

Sheldon

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Sheldon
Freelance Web Developer in Campbell, CA
A number of people have been confused about how to make the online payments for the tickets because it only allows you to purchase one at a time. That was a big oversight on my part. I've now fixed it so that you can purchase more than one ticket at a time. You no longer have to go through multiple checkouts just to get a ticket.

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Sheldon
Freelance Web Developer in Campbell, CA
UPDATE: We'll have a visit with Santa again as part of the first leg of the tour.

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empresslaura
Sales for Residential Elevators & Stairlifts in Campbell
bringing another friend :-)

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ArsNova
Domestic Goddess / House Elf in Campbell, CA
Whoo-hoo!!! The more, the merrier!!!

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trumpman
Software in Campbell, CA
Thanks Sheldon for hosting such a great outing. Just got a cold today, so will have to see if I'm feeling better by Friday.

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Sheldon
Freelance Web Developer in Campbell, CA
UPDATE: Please note the slightly changed itinerary. The first leg of the tour will be a bit shorter because one of the stops from previous years is not running this year and because we need to leave Christmas in the Park by 9:00pm to make it to a special treat in Sunnyvale.

If all goes well, the bus should be back by 10:30pm instead of 11:00pm.

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Sheldon
Freelance Web Developer in Campbell, CA
FYI everyone, I'll be sending out directions to our house tomorrow to everyone who's RSVP'd.


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Sheldon Laura and I are there! Hope my card went through!

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pamzella
Stuff and Things in San Jose, CA
WHeee!

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Is there still room? This is Susan from the book Group. My daughter and I would like to go. How do we get to the meeting place?

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i am interested in this bus tour, please drop me an email on what dates are available. 1 adult and 1 kid

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Sheldon
Freelance Web Developer in Campbell, CA
Email Update:

Hi everyone,

I hope you all had as much fun on our annual Christmas Lights bus tour as I had hosting it. It's my favorite event to do all year not just because the light displays are amusing, but because it's terrific to get familiar with parts of the South Bay landscape that I've never seen before while I'm planning the year's route. Thanks for joining us for it this year. The event was a full sell out and we had the most number of people on the trip since the first time I did this seven years ago.

A number of people asked me during the evening for the event route and info about some of the houses we saw. I've made several different versions of my driving routes available online. You can check them out here:
http://www.socialwave.net/topics/4196/

If you're looking just for a specific house, there are photos of most of the places we saw in the photo gallery section here:
http://www.socialwave.net/gallery/user/386/view_album/

Finally, if you'd like to see some pictures taken during the tour, there's an album of them here:
http://www.socialwave.net/gallery/user/389/view_album/

Thanks again for coming and I hope to see you all again next year!

Sheldon

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