Christmas Celebration With the Girls

My first Christmas in Florida. The girls arrived late Saturday afternoon. After getting their things in the apartment we headed to downtown to The Moon Under Water Bar and Grill. We each chose a curry dish and all of us enjoyed our selections. After we got back to the apartment, Mia took a cat nap while Adele, Gina and I took a short walk around the neighborhood to see some of the holiday light decorations. It was a beautiful night, still a bit humid. When we got back we opened one gift before bed.

After the girls got back from church, we opened our gifts to each other. Here are the girls with their "purse" banks.

Gina gave me a framed picture of her and me taken when we went to the Magic Kingdom Halloween Party last October when I visited them.

For our "Christmas" dinner we went to the Renaissance Vinoy Resort hotel. We had a half hour wait for the Mediterranean buffet so we walked around the hotel and grounds for a while and sat by a pool on an upper level.

There was a candy sculpture in this case in the main hallway.

We each got fruit smoothies made to order. We all enjoyed the fresh fruit. There were stations located around the center of the hall; fresh sea food (Adele went to town on the shrimp and crab), breakfast station, fruit and cheeses, tapas, meat station, and desserts. You could get as much champagne as you wanted (not that the girls drank any), and Adele and Mia tried some caviar. The desserts, however, put us over the edge.

I didn't take another picture of the other desserts . . . don't want to make us look too piggy. There was a chocolate fountain where you could dip all sorts of things, and a cookie table where you could decorate a sugar cookie.

This wreathe was on one of the pillars in the main hallway.




We had fun in this garden area where Mia did her Marilyn Monroe impression as the wind was whipping up her skirt.

This is the cannoli cake I bought Saturday at Mazzaro's. We had a small piece later in the evening. I think we all had enough sweets for the weekend!