If you are in central Florida it will be worth a trip down to Lakeland ( you can even say HI to me if you let me know you are coming…hahah)
One of my co-workers causal mentioned this event the other day to me, where she and her husband ( and a lot of other great volunteers) have been working so hard to build this amazing FREE Event for Christmas over the past month.
This event has been going on for 5 (!!) years now and I have never heard of it till now.. I was told people are being bused in from all over the State of Florida….
This event is called “LIGHTS OF LAKELAND”
and has been getting a LOT of media coverage, especially when Rudolf a live reindeer ran away and was caught under the Elf house and The Ledger News coverage and lots more HERE
It is worth checking out, we will go probly Saturday with the kids…
December 3-5 & 10-12 (6:30-9:00 p.m.)
Join us for Lakeland’s largest community Christmas event, displaying over 500,000 lights, all in a festive atmosphere! New Christmas scenes will delight kids of all ages! This event will be the talk of the town – don’t miss it!
4777 LAKELAND HIGHLANDS ROAD • LAKELAND, FL 33813 •
(863) 647.3518
2010 Scenes Include:
• Santa’s house & reindeer barn featuring “Rudy” the tiniest reindeer
• Santa & Mrs. Clause
• The Grinch
• Walk through Bethlehem with live camels, sheep, & donkeys
• 60′ tree with 200,000 lights
• Puppet show
• Niagara Falls
• Snow in Florida
• Cartoon characters for kids like Dora, Disney Princess and many more….
• General store for kids to shop on their own
• Bring the entire family!
FREE Cookies and Hot Cocoa
Jayne says
Where is this exactly? Didn’t see an address or locality.
mausekind says
OOPs… I was soo excited that I forgot the most important part..lol.. I will update 🙂
Busy Buzzer says
I’m not far at all from Lakeland and I had NO idea that this existed!! Thanks so much for posting! I’m going to tell hubby so we can make plans to bring the kids.
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mausekind says
I had no clue.. either… and this is a HUGE event, I was told…… and ALL FREE; the only thing that will cost you if the kids would like to buy something at the general store it will range from $1- $5 and no must at all… anything else is FREE and you can take as many pictures if you like even Santa !!! Would love to see ya all’s pic’s…
Crystal says
WOW! What an AMAZING event! 😉
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