Christmas
For Christmas I go to Florida and go to the beach. We typically spend our entire holiday break in Florida. We go to Jungle Gardens on Christmas Eve to see the animals, lights, a magician show, and Santa. They have a bonfire where you can roast hot dogs and make s’mores. My sister always makes a s’more because she loves marshmallows. Since we don’t eat meat we never get the hot dogs. Two years ago my sister got bit on the shoulder while feeding the flamingos. Up until last year you could feed them by hand. Now they but up a fence and you cannot cross the line due to the aggressiveness of the flamingos in mating season. This year the jungle gardens is closed due to damage sustained in the last hurricane so we won’t get to do our annual tradition.
I also get presents while there. It is really fun because I get to be with my family. We play board games every night and spend our days at the pool and beach. We also like to make a snowman out of sand every year and take a picture to send to our family up north. We don’t have a feast because we only have 4 people there. We go out to eat pizza on Christmas Eve and just eat at the condo on Christmas day. Mom typically makes cinnamon rolls while we open our presents in the morning and then we head out to the beach. That is how my family celebrates Christmas.
4th of July
On the 4th of July my family also goes to Florida. We sometimes do fire-works. We go to city island and watch the fire-works over the Sarasota Bay. We get there early to get a spot right on the edge of the water. There is a playground that we go to and play until it gets dark. Last year it was very stormy during the fireworks. It started to lightening so we packed up all our chairs and snacks. When it began to get windy we got into the car to head back to the condo. We drove a short distance and had to pull over and put the convertible roof on because it started pouring rain and we were getting wet in the back seat. We missed the firework grand finale but still had a good time.
