It's beginning to look a lot like... well, you know. Over the past week, my daughter and I have been rushing around playing tourist, seeing all of NYC's iconic holiday sights like Santa at Macy's, the spectacular department store holiday windows and the tree at Rockefeller Center. Admittedly, we experienced that last one from the comfort of an MTA bus. We're not crazy enough to try to get close!

Our NYC Holiday Guide includes all kinds of festive fun in the city as well as links to our tri-state-area Holiday Guides. There are some seasonal experiences you can only have outside of the five boroughs, like Polar Express Santa trains and cutting your own Christmas tree.

Since it's a new month, we also posted our December Go Lists highlighting the absolute best things to do throughout the month in NYC, Westchester, Long Island, New Jersey and Connecticut. The sheer number of activities in December is overwhelming and we hope these Go Lists help you plan out your family's calendar so you don't miss the really special stuff.

And a couple of cool odds and ends: There's still time to enter this week's awesome giveaway: a family-four pack to Sahara Sam's indoor water park in New Jersey. Got a car? Then you may want to plan a night trip to see some of the best holiday displays in the outer boroughs, Long Island, New Jersey and Connecticut. And our Travel site has a wonderful post about spending Christmas in Dublin, Ireland.

Here's what else we covered on the NYC site this week: