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Dec 2: Who needs snow anyway?
Posted On: December 2, 2005 3:41 PM
Posted By: LauderBLOGGER
Related Subjects: Greater Fort Lauderdale
I always think you never really know a place until you've seen it at the holidays. But for sure, you don't know Broward County until you've caught our very different act this time of year.
It's happening already. Has been for a couple weeks, in fact, and the margarita-meets-candy-cane atmosphere just gets more noticeable each day as we wade farther into December. I've watched the decorations going up at places like the Galleria Mall with its huge lighted reindeer or along Las Olas with its twinkle-light charm. When I drive around town, though, it's the wacky and funny stuff that gets to me most.
Ever seen a palm tree encrusted with pink Christmas bulbs, hundreds of lights on all sides outlining the thing? Or how about flashing icicle-lights dangling from the vines of a banyan? Who could feel holiday blues around a beaming pink palm tree anyway?
But you haven't really done this season in greater Fort Lauderdale 'til you sit by the water, maybe at Bahia Cabana in Fort Lauderdale or Le Tub in Hollywood -- and you watch the lighted boats cruise past.
There you are, sipping that margarita or maybe something with rum, and it's a parade even weeks before (or after) the official big boat-fest. (By that, I mean the Winterfest Boat Parade, of course -- December 17th this year, FYI.)
So anyway, you're having this nice cocktail and drifting near you are these yachts with choppers on the back, with actual helicopters and things, all covered in white lights. And you watch one of these mega-boats slide by some small speedboat with a Christmas tree where its flagpole used to be.
It's all just fun. And it helps make this part of the world a very cool spot to be for the holidays. Which only goes to prove you don't need snow to get in the holiday spirit. Though a nice margarita now and then sure doesn't hurt!
It's happening already. Has been for a couple weeks, in fact, and the margarita-meets-candy-cane atmosphere just gets more noticeable each day as we wade farther into December. I've watched the decorations going up at places like the Galleria Mall with its huge lighted reindeer or along Las Olas with its twinkle-light charm. When I drive around town, though, it's the wacky and funny stuff that gets to me most.
Ever seen a palm tree encrusted with pink Christmas bulbs, hundreds of lights on all sides outlining the thing? Or how about flashing icicle-lights dangling from the vines of a banyan? Who could feel holiday blues around a beaming pink palm tree anyway?
But you haven't really done this season in greater Fort Lauderdale 'til you sit by the water, maybe at Bahia Cabana in Fort Lauderdale or Le Tub in Hollywood -- and you watch the lighted boats cruise past.
There you are, sipping that margarita or maybe something with rum, and it's a parade even weeks before (or after) the official big boat-fest. (By that, I mean the Winterfest Boat Parade, of course -- December 17th this year, FYI.)
So anyway, you're having this nice cocktail and drifting near you are these yachts with choppers on the back, with actual helicopters and things, all covered in white lights. And you watch one of these mega-boats slide by some small speedboat with a Christmas tree where its flagpole used to be.
It's all just fun. And it helps make this part of the world a very cool spot to be for the holidays. Which only goes to prove you don't need snow to get in the holiday spirit. Though a nice margarita now and then sure doesn't hurt!
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