I have it on good authority that Shannon’s of Celebration will be opening their new “wing” for Saturday’s World Cup Match Up of USA vs England. For the uninitiated, Shannon’s bought out the lease of the space next door to them several months ago and has been working on expanding their business into that space.
Every month or so the Celebration Town Tavern hosts a “tweetup”… which is, as far as I can tell, just an excuse for people on Twitter to get together in Real Life and have some beers. I am not judging, as I am a willing participant. The photo is Exhibit A.
If you happen to see this in the next hour-and-a-half, come by the Celebration Town Tavern for a Summerfest Sampler of beers. If you find this later, add this site to your favorite RSS feed reader and I’ll tell you when the next one is!
Some mates from work saw this website and were wondering about Segway tours of Celebration. I can’t say how they found out about these tours, but they contacted me to learn more.
So, as a public service, you should check out: Segway Tours of Celebration, Florida
I can safely say this isn’t a fly-by-night operation, as we’ve been seeing Segway tours of Celebration since we moved in here more than a year ago.
We’re just back from the Celebration Memorial Day 2010 Flag Ceremony. We thought this was a well-executed tribute to the men & women, husbands & wives, sons & daughters, who have given the ultimate sacrifice in service to the United States of America.
Thank you, veterans.
As always, click the photo for a larger version. Apologies for not knowing the names of the people pictured, but if you mail me I will add appropriate captions.
Traffic was fairly light at the Celebration Farmers Market today, presumably because it’s a holiday weekend. We were glad that Tom was there:
As well as the produce stand:
This is a relative newcomer who we haven’t visited yet:
And a booth making their first appearance that I know of:
Strange that I only took pictures of food places. Hmmm.
I took this picture last Monday (5/24) using my iPhone.
Since I took that without benefit of a zoom lens, you can safely assume he’s dead.
He was pretty well hidden behind some grass, so you wouldn’t have noticed him if you were walking by. He was pointed out to us by someone walking in the other direction. None of us knew he was dead at the time, so we had a nervous chuckle and went on our way.
The next morning, I knew. The dozen or so vultures camped out in the area gave it away. Fortunately, the Florida sun hadn’t started to work its magic, so there wasn’t a smell yet. Later that day, township people came to take him away.
There was speculation on the internal message boards about the cause of his demise. Was it old age? Seemed unlikely… we was only 7 feet or so. Was there some poison or pollution in the water that did him in? Also unlikely, as there wasn’t evidence of any other deaths. Run-in with another gator? This one seemed more likely; it’s mating season, and our subject was missing a sizable chunk of scales & flesh from his left side, and some on his right.
We’ll probably never know. It’s a shame, though. We always made it a point to try to spot him on our walks, and more often than not we’d see him working on his tan on the grass opposite the trail.
And if it was another gator that did him in, where’s THAT gator? Hmmm…
Update 2010-Jun-01: There’s an older article about another alligator here: Celebrationblog.com: Wildlife Part 4.
Flat Stanley, who in this reincarnation hails from Pictou County, Nova Scotia, watches from the East Village as Space Shuttle Atlantis blasts off for its final voyage before retirement.
A law enforcement officer has a word with KITT.
A reminder that the Celebration Exotic Car Festival is on today in downtown Celebration.
From the Celebration Town Center web site:
The 7th Annual Celebration Exotic Car Festival, benefitting Special Olympics Florida, will be held April 15-18, 2010. This four-day, world class event, hosted by the Ferrari Club of America, will be bigger and better than ever, with new activities and even more unique, exotic, and race cars – as well as famous and movie and television cars to be displayed.
The festival, which is organized by a small team of volunteers of Celebration and other local residents, has established itself as one of the largest of its kind in the country, and will raise much-needed funds for Special Olympics Florida, which provides year-round programs and services to 15,000 children and adults with intellectual disabilities in Florida, at no cost to the athletes or their families. Over $500,000 has been raised for charity since the event’s inception in 2004.
There are a number of notable events related to the festival, listed on the above website, with most happening outside Celebration. The Celebration component is the car exhibit, taking place downtown along the lake on April 17 from 10am to 4pm. I imagine the traffic situation downtown will be… interesting… but probably well-worth the challenge for those visiting from outside. Me, I’ll walk.
