Florida - Day 6

Today was Christmas Eve, but really didn't feel like it, due to the warmth and lack of snow.  Everybody except Jonathan slept in this morning and we spent a very lazy morning doing nothing.  Sandra went out with her parents to get some fruit from an orchard, while the kids built and played with some LEGO and then had lunch.

The afternoon started out the same way, though Alex and Grandpa went for a round of golf.  It had been overcast and sprinkling rain all morning, but some sun briefly appeared in the afternoon, so Bradley, Evan, Grandma and I ran over to the pool.  We made a few laps around the lazy river, played in the big pool, sat in the hot tub and then Bradley went down the water slide 50 times.

After supper, we took a drive out to Celebration, a town just south of the Disney parks that was designed by the Disney company in the 90s.  So a kind of manufactured town, if you will.  In the town center, they setup a Christmas tree, a fake skating rink and every hour they fill the block with fake snow.  I believe I forgot to mention the fake snow that Disney had falling along Main Street USA as we exited the park last night, which was quite well done.  This snow was less well done - I believe it was the same product, which is vaguely soap like, but looks like floating snowflakes - but you could see the the devices producing the "snow" and it didn't really disperse into the sky everywhere.  Still, there were a lot of excited people, most of whom have never had to shovel snow in their lives, so snow seems exciting.

We then took a short ride around the town in a train car pulled by a tractor that looked like an engine and then drove over to another part of the town where the entire street has all their Christmas lights sync'd together and they have a LOT of lights.  At one point I looked at a house and then had to blink a ton before I could see Alex clearly again.  We walked up and down the block and then returned to the van for the drive back to the resort.  The kids were exhausted by this time and Bradley had fallen asleep on the drive back, so it was off to bed and the end of another day.