A Guide to the Top Five Places in Florida to Have a Christmas Winter Wonderland:

You've heard of hurricane season, mosquito season; the dry and wet seasons in Florida but have you've heard of the best season of all? It is Snow Season were you can actually see snow falling from a Florida night sky during the Christmas season. People think of Florida and think of a hot sun, beaches and tall palm trees reaching up to a beautiful blue sky. However, Florida's theme parks and hotels change this eternal image once a year by creating winter wonderlands all across sunny central Florida.

This great desire for Floridian's to create this illusion of winter, as the holidays approach is the cause of iconic images like Jimmy Steward running, screaming "Merry Christmas" at the top of his lungs down a snow-covered street. Bing Crosby at the piano surrounded by his friends and family as he sings, "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas" longingly. The image of white covered streets in "A Christmas Story." These images help bring up memories of a happy warm old-fashioned Christmas for Floridian's.

The top five places where a native Floridian can go to experience snow:
1.ICE- The entrance of ICE at Gaylord Palms Resort and Convention Center, near
Kissimmee. It is a place where tall pink flamingos with earmuffs and alligators greet the guests entering a massive freezer called the "Florida Freezer", built each year to house an elaborate ice sculpture exhibit. Forty artists from China sculpt the 450- pound sculpture of ice into works of art such as trains, snowmen, reindeer, and Christmas Trees. The all-male crew comes from Canada, Australia, Thailand and elsewhere just to create the ice sculptures every year.

2.Celebration- is a residential place created by DISNEY with its own community.
It has its own stores, medical centers, schools, movie houses, and its own park. It snows every year in the center of town the day after Thanksgiving. The snow is foam blown from a huge foam machine. The residents say that they love the fact that they get the snow without the winter chill and having to shovel. Celebration created its first snowfall tradition in 1999. 15,000 people visit Celebration each year to catch the environmentally safe material falling and sticking like snow around Celebration.

3.Walt Disney World- Mickey as Santa and even real honest fake snow falls on Main Street USA over the visitors. The visitors are treated to get out from the cold snow to have hot cocoa and cookies in the Plaza Pavilion, Aloha Isle, and Columbia Harbor House.

4.Epcot- Epcot at Christmas time has a place where they keep it so cold it actually
produces REAL SNOW! It is called Ice Station Cool and the ice drinks are free.

5.Sea World Christmas- At the park there is a holiday fountain show with dancing
colored lights set to music. The sky fills up with brightly colored fireworks and flurries of fake "snow" fall on the happy visitors.