The lights outside of the hotel.
This family of penguins was a favorite.
The front of the hotel.
Tonight the big boys asked if we could come back here next year... we might have started a new Christmas tradition.
I feel so blessed to call these boys my eternal family. Yay for kind people walking by asking if we would like them to take a photo of all of us together. We don't get family pictures often enough.
I was so excited that we were able to get some good photos in front of this beautiful tree.
The Christmas Story display.
We could not pass up a photo with "the leg lamp"
Did you know they made a Christmas Story 2 movie?
Neither did we until we watched it at the hotel.
This was in our hotel. They had different performers every night. Did you know that the song The 12 days of Christmas actually has meaning? I didn't.
The song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is an English Christmas carol. From 1558 until 1829, Roman Catholics in England were not permitted to practice their faith openly. Someone during that era wrote this carol as a catechism song for young Catholics. It has two levels of meaning: the surface meaning plus a hidden meaning known only to members of the Church. Each element in the carol has a code word for a religious reality which the children could remember. To fit the number scheme, when you reach number 9, representing the Fruits of the Holy Ghost, the originator combined 6 to make 3, taking the 6 fruits that were similar: the fruit in each parenthesis is the that was not named separately. There are actually Twelve Fruits of the Holy Ghost.
The "True Love" one hears in the song is not a smitten boy or girlfriend but Jesus Christ, because truly Love was born on Christmas Day. The partridge in the pear tree also represents Him because that bird is willing to sacrifice its life if necessary to protect its young by feigning injury to draw away predators.
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