Your guide to Thanksgiving Week fun around RVA
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Thanksgiving week is here, and if you've got family coming in town, we've got some ideas to get them out of your house, and hair, if only for a few hours.
- Here, six ways to entertain your Thanksgiving guests:
🖼️ Hit up VMFA: Richmond's art museum is open 365 days a year and free every one of them.
- While you're there, pop into "Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys" ($12) or their Floris tearoom in the building behind the museum.
🦃 Turkey trot your way across the James with the River City Run Club's annual run/ walk across the T. Potterfield Bridge.
- Meet on Brown's Island at 8:30am. Free.
⛸️ Get on the ice at Stony Point Fashion Park's ice skating rink, now open every day but Thanksgiving.
- Skate tickets (with or without skate rentals) are $16.
🎢️ Get a thrill at Busch Garden's Christmas Town, running select dates through Jan. 4.
- There'll be light displays, festive music and food, and some roller coaster rides open for kids of all ages. Tickets are $86.99, but as of press time there was a flash sale bringing the price down to $29.99.
⛲️Take in Dominion Energy GardenFest of Lights at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden.
- It was voted the best botanical garden holiday light display in the nation by USA Today. Open daily except for holidays. Advance tickets are required and start at $22 for adults.
🥂 Toast the season with a visit to one of the holiday pop-up bars happening around town this year.
- *Some won't get started until early December.