Christmas in July

Keith moves every few weeks to a new area of the ranch to work with new foremen. Each of these areas are numbered units and there are 13 of them. He's been on his new unit for over a week now. It's been a change from the others, I'm seeing bit more of him which has been nice! The new foreman he's working with suggested that we visit Fort Christmas while we were here. I've been to a fair share of historical sites in my lifetime and generally found them to be pretty interesting and informative. This one sounded kind of fun too. I mean it has Christmas in it's name, how could it not be. Without knowing anything about Fort Christmas we drove north to find it. We pulled into Christmas, FL and were welcomed with Jolly 'ol St. Nick and his year-round Christmas tree right away.

Nothing screams Christmas like 90 degree, sunny Florida in July!

We got to the fort we found a map and wandered around. In simplest terms this fort was named Fort Christmas because construction began on December 25th. It was during the Second Seminole Indian War but was only used for storage-not a bullet was shot. It wasn't the most historical of sites we've ever visited... but we had fun none-the-less. 

Within the park there are also seven pioneer homes that they've restored. We walked through a few of them which was fun as well. Then we headed to the gift shop and got ourselves some root beer candy and the game pick up sticks. They had a big map out front that people put pins on where they were from. No one had marked anywhere near Inkom/Pocatello so Keith proudly left his mark!

After we left we headed to the closest theater and used some movie tickets we got for Christmas (Thank you Grandpa McNabb and Mindy!) and saw Ice Age 3. We had a good laugh and it was fun to get out. We enjoyed our Christmas weekend in July!!