Celebration! / Show # 32

"Celebration, Florida ... You've got to see this place!"

With a tag-line like that, how could we pass it up? Especially once we did a little research and figured out exactly what it is that makes Celebration, FL such a special place...

"Celebration, FL is census-designated place and an unincorporated master-planned community in Osceola County in the U.S. state of Florida, near Walt Disney World Resort. It was developed by The Walt Disney Company.
Celebration is connected directly to the Walt Disney World parks and resorts by World Drive [ ... ]"

So, we went. And wouldn't you know, it really does look like someone just transplanted the Mainstreet USA section of Disneyland into the real world! It's got mood-lighting under the trees, a fountain that shoots up over coloured lights and music piping from little hubs in the flowerbeds. All the awnings are striped, all the lawns are perfectly mowed and all of the sidewalks are pristine, neat and polished-looking. It is so perfect and normal that it's actually kind of weird.

Regardless, once we got past the strangeness of it all, we decided to have dinner there at a lovely Sushi restaurant, located in the heart of the downtown area of Celebration and ate some of the best Japanese food I've had in YEARS. So that was lovely.

Then, today, we rose before the sun did to drive off to the Kissimee School District headquarters and get our finger-prints taken before we drove to our venue (a school, in case you hadn't guessed) to perform. The show itself was fine, I suppose. We're all a little tired right now, which is somewhat counter-intuitive, given that we've had a lot of time to relax during these past few days. Perhaps it's just that we're letting ourselves feel how tired we've been and are still recovering. Whatever it is, I'm either going to have to start drinking more coffee in the morning (a feat that will surely result in my bladder EXPLODING, given how much I'm already downing) or I'm going to have to take up coke. I hear it's good for energy.
I'm totally kidding. I'm not doing coke.
I don't have the money for it.

Anyhow - tomorrow, we're going to DisneyWorld! HURRAY! I love these days off down here, where there's so much touristy stuff to do. The other things we have planned during our days off? Going for an air-boat ride, spending more quality time with that pool and hot-tub and possibly writing a few more postcards.
Maybe I'll send you one.