Unlike previous years (2018, 2019) the Christmas Trees are scattered throughout the shopping areas of Disney Springs rather than clustered together in a special area – better for the shops no doubt as it makes people walk around … We walked from end to end yesterday and I think we caught all of the trees and a few other decorations (though it was busy so maybe we missed something!)
Last year we visited Sanford Zoo to see their spectacular Asian Lantern Festival; in fact it was so good we went twice last year – and last night we returned, taking friends with us. Amazingly we saw almost no repeat designs from last year, with everything different but just as spectacular as our previous visit – and here of course, are lots of photos …
A number of the “lanterns” are animated (some even interact, responding to banging drums nearby!) so here’s a video compilation of some of the moving displays:
Winter Garden Heritage on Facebook recently posted another downtown Winter Garden picture, this time from 1998 so only about 25 years difference (see my previous “then and now” post with a 70 years difference!); this view shows the building corner where Winter Garden Wheel Works is now located; like last time I tried to get a similar picture angle to show the changes … you can see that back in 1998 the corner building was empty, the road hadn’t been bricked, and the center hadn’t been made into the West Orange trail. The tree in front of the corner has now gone, while the further back one is now taller but doesn’t look so healthy!
