From mom’s apartment we drove about 7 miles down highway 192 toward Disney World. The closer we got, the more concentrated the restaurants and souvenir shops became. There are giant oranges, alligators, wizards, neon signs, places selling discount Disney products, every chain restaurant you can think of, mini golf, and even a ferris wheel. Next we made a left turn on Celebration Ave. and immediately these beautiful 2 story midwest down home houses with pillars and porches and rocking chairs appeared. I expected to see Stepford Wives in the kitchen baking in formal wear or something. According to my internet research, Celebration was built in the early 1990s by the Disney Corporation. They hired famous architects and planners to put together this town that looks like an extension of Main street Disneyland. About 10 years later Disney sold the community and it lives on as pretty as a picture.
The reason we went to Celebration today was because the Gath family, who is visiting their grandma this weekend, invited us. The early years when I first met Beth and her children was a bit of a blurr to me. The kids were young and needy and I was in survival mode, so forgive me if my years are off a little. I think it was Roy’s kindergarten year, 2006, Genny was in Mrs. Danuta’s toddler music class at the park and I was sitting at the playground with 5 year old Roy and 1 year old Marie and I noticed two moms that appeared to have slightly older children as well. Yes indeed, Beth and Alexis were homeschooling their 1st graders. At the same time Tara started up the Long Beach Homeschoolers yahoo group, and some months later we encouraged a few coaches from EMH sports to offer their class at the same park and the same time as music class. That’s where it all began. Now there are a few hundred families in the group enjoying classes, parties, park days, play dates and field trips together.
A few months ago I was chatting with Beth and told her of our plans for Thanksgiving and since her family would be here visiting for the holiday as well, we set the Florida playdate. For weeks before we left, my kids and I were really sad about leaving friends, since we left, the kids have been doing facetime and calling friends, but there’s nothing as comforting that a hug from a little friend.
The boys cruised around the canals and bridges looking for wildlife. In Florida, wildlife often comes with big teeth, cold blood and armored skin. Roy and Anthony used their Animal Planet skills to make a gater call, hoping to attract more alligators.
The girls enjoyed the Spanish moss. Back home they used to all play in the bushes making forts, here they are disguised as old men with long beards and mustaches.
We all had a nice walk around the lakes, a tasty lunch and then the Christmas festivities began. Along Celebration’s main street in town, they set up a plastic ice rink for iceless skating. Also, a man was spraying the street with fake snow. The kids were in this shaving cream type stuff, rolling in it, piling it on their heads, standing under the sprayer.
Genny always loves a mess!
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Marie does too!
There were soaked and covered with the goop. I was trying to have fun, but all I could think of was putting those messy sisters in my mom’s car and driving them home.
Roy was proud of his maturity in not getting messy, so he posed for a picture with the Christmas Tree.
That’s when I got the bright idea to put the sisters in the fountain for a shower. They were freezing cold and the sun was setting, but ‘girls just want to have fun’.
Roy and I saw poor Marie shivering, and were very happy to be warm and dry. I took off their wet shirts and gave them jackets, in the car they took off the wet pants and wrapped in towels and off we went. But we had so much fun we’ve decided to go again on Sunday for the farmer’s market and show Nannie the alligators.