November 18, 2025 - Scandinavian Market, Lighting of the Riverwoods

What’s Up Provo! It’s Married to a Scorpio Support Day. 🦂

So hopefully, if you are married to a Scorpio, you get the support you need today.

Also, happy birthday Mickey Mouse! 🎂 If you think you know how old Mickey Mouse is today then check out the trivia at the end of the email.

In Partnership with Timber Moose Lodge
The Largest Log Cabin in America

Did you know the largest log cabin is in UTAH? And it’s not that far away.

The name: Timber Moose Lodge
An amazing venue for weddings, family reunions, and corporate events.

🛏 13 bedrooms and 17 bathrooms
📆 Look for open days (and discounted days) on their reservation calendar
📍 10000 E Timber Moose Way, Heber City

📷 Why not check out their interior? Including their entry, dining room, kitchen, sun room, game room, gathering room, the Grand Room, the Sitting Room, the Bullwinkle Room, the Don Quixote Landing, the pool & hot tub & sauna, and the Crow’s Nest. 🐦

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⚽ 11-round PK shootout
It was a wild one against Utah State in the first round of the NCAA tournament for BYU. Here are the highlights.
Spoiler alert: They ended up winning 7‑6 after an 11‑round penalty shootout! (Which is one reason why the highlights are so long.) Congrats to junior Izzi Stratton for scoring the decisive PK and to goalkeeper Chelsea Peterson for making three saves in the shootout. Next game is this Friday against UCLA (more details in the What’s Coming section).

🍽️ Thanksgiving Dining
If you want to skip the kitchen chaos this year then click the blue header link above to check out all the Utah County spots serving up Thanksgiving meals. (The link gives 11 different options, from Tucanos to The Slate Restaurant to Chuck‑A‑Rama.)

🏃 Y Mountain Ultra Feat
Local ultra marathoner, Michael Greer, is raising funds for the Televerde Foundation and for friends battling rare and terminal cancers by being the first to do the Y Mountain trail, up and back, 93 times! According to the article he started doing laps on Thursday night, and by midday on Sunday he had completed 61 trips.

Once again, lots of BYU events:

🎓 Forum: Presidents Panel
This is a unique forum (the only time we can think of where they’ve done something like this) and part of the sesquicentennial celebration. President C. Shane Reese will be there with Kevin J Worthen, Cecil O. Samuelson, and Merrill J. Bateman for a panel on BYU’s history and future.
Marriott Center | Nov. 18 | 11:05am

🎺 Concert Band Confluence: BYU Symphonic Band and BYU University Band in Concert
Kick off the holidays with Christmas classics and band favorites by both bands—tickets are $6–12.
BYU Concert Hall | Nov. 18 | 7:30pm

🎷 Q’d Up
Another BYU music event for you… it’s a free jazz concert performed by BYU’s faculty jazz combo.
BYU Choral Hall | Nov. 18 | 8pm

🎷 Synthesis
If you’d rather pay for your jazz then check out BYU’s premier jazz band! Tickets are $10–16
BYU | Nov. 19 | 7:30pm

🖼️ MOA Gallery Talk: ‘The Sense of Beauty’
MOA Curator Miri Kim will be doing a free, 30-minute lunchtime gallery talk exploring six centuries of masterpiece paintings in the exhibition “The Sense of Beauty.”
BYU Museum of Art | Nov. 19 | 12:10pm-12:40pm

🏐 Women's Volleyball vs. Arizona
The cougars are ranked #25 in the country and will be hosting Arizona on Wednesday before their big showdown against #13 Kansas on Friday.
BYU Smith Fieldhouse | Nov. 19 | 6pm

Other events

🧭 Live Action Oregon Trail
Travel back to 1848 and/or 1998 and enjoy an Oregon Trail challenge. Hopefully your ox doesn’t wander off. And try not to get dysentery. (always good advice)
Springville Library | Nov. 18 | 2am-3am

📚 Ballroom Book Sale
Most items $2 or less!
Provo Library - Ballroom | Nov. 18 | 12pm-8pm

🦃 Minute to Win It Turkey Day Edition
A late-night, Thanksgiving-themed Minute to Win It challenge for teens.
Springville Library | Nov. 19 | 11pm-12am

Later this week

🚂 North Pole Christmas Train
The first trip of the popular Christmas train pulls out of the station on Thursday. Sip hot cocoa and munch Mrs. Claus’s famous cookies while singing carols on this festive 90-minute round-trip.
Heber Valley Railroad | Nov. 20 | 5pm-6:30pm

🎄 Scandinavian Christmas Market
We doublechecked and this one is open to the public. It’s an open-air Christmas market with food, booths of traditional Scandinavian wares, and live performances by Skogafoss folk band, BYU folk dance, Luke Stager on hardanger fiddle, and the BYU Scandinavian choir.
JFSB Courtyard, BYU | Nov. 20 | 6:30pm-9pm

🎄 Lighting of Riverwoods 2025
Watch 1.5+ million lights switch on at 6pm + fireworks at 8pm.
Shops at Riverwoods | Nov. 21 | 6pm-8pm

❄️ Frost and Fable Renaissance Market
A cozy Renaissance/holiday market with multiple vendors and gift finds for all ages—costumes encouraged (not required), Fri 2-8pm and Sat 10am-8pm, plus a separate ticketed Yuletide Ball 8-10pm.
Provo Towne Centre (upper level) | Nov. 21 & 22 | 2pm-8pm

🧩 Christmas Warehouse Sale & Puzzle Tour
Shop up to 70% off puzzles and games, take a behind-the-scenes puzzle-making tour, play games and enter giveaways, enjoy free ice cream, and meet the Boardwalk team!
Boardwalk Puzzles Warehouse in Lindon | Nov. 21-22 | Fri 5:30pm-8:30pm; Sat 9am-12pm

🎿 Utah Valley Ski Swap
Shop discounted new and used skis, snowboards, boots, helmets, and outerwear for all ages, and consign your own gear—drop it off Nov. 21, 10am-2pm, and they’ll sell it for you.
The Show Barn at Thanksgiving Point | Nov. 21–22 | time tba

🖼️ Youth Art Competition Opening Reception
Springville Museum of Art | Nov. 22 | 10am-12pm

🏀 Women's Basketball vs. Weber State
Marriott Center | Nov. 22 | 2pm

🦃 5K & Fun Run
Lindon City Park | Nov. 22 | 8am

🥕 Provo Farmers Winter Market
First of the season!
Provo Towne Centre Mall | Saturdays Nov. 22-Dec. 20 & Jan. 10-Apr. 4 | 10am-3pm

🕵️ Fall 2025 Mystery Dinner Night - CLUE
Solve a CLUE-inspired whodunit over a sit-down dinner—costumes encouraged, $25 general or $15 for BYU students with code STUDENT (student ID required).
Monte L. Bean Life Science Museum | Nov. 22 | 6pm-9pm

A micro theme park, an immersive and supernatural experience, a portal to another world. 🌌

A little background: Dreamwalk is the passion project of John Pope and Ben McPherson and something they have been working on for over 3 years! Their goal is to give people an experience like no other.

If you haven’t heard already, the Dreamwalk gets changed up often, so you can go multiple times a year and get a different experience each time. Plus, there are many hidden scenes and “games you can activate” along the way that you might not have uncovered your first time around. If you’ve never been, or even if you’ve been before, check it out this holiday season. (book in advance! and use WHATSUPPROVO2025 to get a discount)

More info | Watch the video

Tuesday - 55° | ⛅️ | 4%

Wednesday - 53° | ⛅️ | 17%

Thursday - 51° | ⛅️ | 15%

Friday - 49° | 🌧️ | 42%

Saturday - 50° | ⛅️ | 10%

Sunday - 50° | ⛅️ | 9%

(next) Monday - 52° | ⛅️ | 19%

@ the Velour
Wednesday – Open Mic Night
Thursday – Drusky, Sabrina Fair, Mitchee
Friday – Local Kin, Bleu Grave, Harpers, Valentine’s Day Club
Saturday – Robert Loud, The Last Wild Buffalo, Rob Spice, Saemore

@ Java Junkie
Friday – Open Mic Night
Saturday – Ida Grey, Bly Wallentine, Evan Seal, Angel of Remus, Joey Brandin, Evan Michael, Megaritual

@ 3hive Record Lounge
Saturday – Empty Corner, Deer Crossing, Order & Nonsense, Lavon

@ theFINDlab
Saturday – Karaoke; GANKY (dance party)

@ BYU
Tuesday – BYU Symphonic Band; BYU University Band; Mountain Strings; Q’d Up (Jazz)
Wednesday – BYU Synthesis; String Chamber Night
Thursday – BYU Group for Computer Music; BYU Jazz Voices
Friday – Opera Scenes
Saturday – Opera Scenes

@ UVU
Tuesday – UVU Chamber Orchestra
Wednesday – Emerald Singers & Deep Green
Thursday – UVU Chamber Choir
Friday – UVU Wind Symphony

@ The Rise
Wednesday – Open Mic Night
Friday – SEBA, E‑zak, Tuisem, Revilo, KIDDO, Black Ghetto, Catire, LLANERO, Escalante, Lalogarval, Zypher, LIL G, SANTINO
Saturday – Hatchback, Breakfast Biscuit, Moving Company

@ Angelus Theatre
Friday – Wild Hair; Sisters of the Moon (Fleetwood Mac tribute)

@ Seven Brothers Riverwoods
Friday – Kieran Hellum

@ Slackwater Pizza Riverwoods
Sunday – Kieran Hellum

Thanks for reading. Please forward this to the best goalie you know. 😉

-Nicole, Josh, & Carlie

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