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Life in a Bubble Is Warm and Relaxed at Lazy Bean Cafe -Bubble-enclosed tables at Lazy Bean Cafe. (Credit: Bracha Schwartz) Lazy Bean Cafe is not going to let cold weather spoil your fun. The tables that have sprung up in front of the café are now protected by plastic bubble tents; each can hold up to six people. With openings on two sides for proper airflow and disinfectant spray used throughout the day and on request, safety is paramount. You can ask for a tabletop fireplace if you don’t have any children with you under age 12. It’s a
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La Crosse restaurant provides “bubbles” in attempt for safe dining-out experience during pandemic LA CROSSE, Wis. (WXOW) - 4 Sisters Wine and Tapas Restaurant added dining bubble tents to their patio space in an attempt to create safe opportunities for customers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The bubbles fit up to four people. Customers must call ahead to reserve a bubble tent, give the restaurant a credit card number and pay a $75 minimum bill. Owner Traci Weber said the bubbles are booked for November but people can call ahead to reserve a future spot. Resource: https://wxow.com/2020/11/05/la-crosse-restaurant-provides-bubbles-in-attempt-for-safe-dining-out-experience-during-pandemic/
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4 Sisters restaurant in La Crosse adds outdoor bubble dining LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) – The clock is ticking to enjoy a meal in these unseasonably warm temperatures. “We’ve been doing some reading and wanted to enjoy and outside day in this beautiful weather,” 4 Sisters customer Claudia Melby said. Melby and her book club friends ended up choosing 4 Sisters right in the heart of downtown. “And so we saw the bubbles, and thought let’s try the bubbles,” Melby said. It seems as though it’s given them a taste of satisfaction. “Oh yeah, this was fine,” Melby said. “This
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From Santa bubble tents to drive-through decorations and Nativity scenes made of pizza, the socially distanced year like no other is giving us a masked Christmas like no other. Guardian picture editors look at Christmas around the world in a year upended by the coronavirus pandemic Stan Thompson, dressed as Santa Claus, talks to children in a car during a physically distant drive-through visit in Indianola, Iowa. Photograph: Jack Kurtz/Zuma Wire/Rex/Shutterstock Visitors drive through the Luminna festival in São Paulo, Brazil. The indoor lights exhibition features 200 illuminated and interactive sculptures, and due to the pandemic, can only be visited
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COVID can’t dim magic of a Seattle Santa’s snow-globe wonderland Santa has brought his magic to the streets of Greenwood in the glowing orb of a plastic snow globe. Dan Kemmis, known as The Seattle Santa, has been setting up on the corner of Greenwood Avenue North and North 76th Street in Seattle in a plastic bubble tent that’s all decorated and dressed like the North Pole. He plans to do it daily from approximately 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. until Dec. 23. The prospect of a year without seeing the joy in the faces of children was sad. “I