Daytona Christmas Lights

With the craziness of Covid, we decided to curtail our normal Christmas outings, and of course many were outright cancelled.  The Daytona International Speedway did a drive-through this year which you could enjoy from the isolation and safety of your car.  We thought that sounded like a lovely way to launch the holiday season, so we made an outing of it by going to the beach for a bit in the late afternoon, eating supper, and then driving through the Speedway.  

The weather was cool and lovely, so it was quite perfect.  We went out with our friends the Biris, and when we got there we realized that there was a group of other friends there as well, so it was awesome to visit and catch up while the kids played soccer (what else is there to play of course!)

We kept our chairs apart so that we were socially distanced :)

And after the soccer, there was just standing around chatting while the sun set.  This was as the moon was rising, it was pretty with the  moon shining across the water!

Addison was tiny up on the lifeguard stand!

After that, we ate supper at Chipotle and then drive through the lights.  They had different areas with different themes (famous buildings around the world, Disney characters, famous things in florida like the shuttle, and of course the nativity scene).  At the end, you could drive through a tunnel of lights.  It took a long time to get into the Speedway (about an hour) but it was fun nonetheless.

About to get into the lights

Watching from the sunroof

Amy's company has an entrance to the speedway, so it was fun to see our gate

The tunnel of lights

Still happy as we left, although Addison was not smiling in this picture!

We also did our annual family pictures - trying to capture how fast these kids are growing is just incredible! Where did the time go?

And the last update for today is that Zachary and Karis had a fun outing to watch Orlando City soccer with our friends the Ws.  They were in the box, so how chill is that - talk about being pampered! :)