Christmas in Arkansas

We had the joy of spending Christmas 2019 in West Memphis, Arkansas with Matt's family.  There are so many things that we love to do when we visit there.  One of those things is to see the Peabody Ducks at the Peabody Hotel.  This year when we went, we took along Ellie.

  The kids love the decorations.  They also love seeing the ducks come from the elevator, down the red carpet, and into the fountain.

  I made sure to read John Philip Duck to the kids while we were on vacation since it is all about the Peabody Ducks at the Peabody Hotel.

 After seeing the ducks we had a great time seeing all of the duck items that you can get from the gift shop.  They have everything that you can imagine, and it all has ducks on it!

 There are even duck prints all up and down the sidewalk outside of the hotel.  Each has a name of an actor or actress.  This was one name that I recognized so the kids compared their feet to the duck feet.  They are not smiling well because the sun was bright and in their eyes.

 Once we got home, the kids all decorated a part of a gingerbread village.  Glen made the gingerbread house.  Grace made a gingerbread train, and Ellie made a gingerbread dog house.  They were all so unique and each had fun working on their own project.

 This year we had the joy to also go to the zoo lights in West Memphis.  The local zoo puts up a great lighting display throughout the zoo.  Then they open up the zoo in the evening to see the display and maybe even some animals!

 When we walked into the zoo they even had fake snow blowing on us as we entered.  There was also a laser light show being played on the walls of the buildings in the entry way.

 So many fun lights to see like castles, gingerbread houses, and many other things.

 We also got to go into some of the buildings to do experiments.  Here Grace is a walrus and Glen is an explorer.

 Here Grace is the explorer and Glen is the walrus.

  At the reptile house, Grace fell in love with the biggest snake that they had in the building.  It was decided quickly that animal would NOT become a pet in our house...EVER!  We did see some great lizards, snakes, bats, and many other animals.

 The three older grandkids (Jackson did not join us on this adventure)

These three had so much fun together.  They even pulled out a board game or two.  I am so glad that they have so much fun together during holidays.

With Peabody Hotel, Zoo lights, and visiting and playing it was a great trip.  Grace and Glen did end up with fevers and did not feel well at the end but we still enjoyed time together.