I’m Back Home (With Jet Lag) For The Holidays & Finally Put My Christmas Yard Decorations Up

0:03 Welcome everyone. Adams Aoo here as the

0:03 recording of this Thursday, December

0:06 18th, also known as exactly one week

0:08 till Christmas Day. I'm back in

0:10 Celebration, Florida from my

0:12 international travels, just a couple

0:14 days shy of being gone a month and I am

0:18 happy and it is good to be home. I'm

0:22 going to start the day off by getting a

0:24 coffee, checking out some decor from

0:27 here to there, and then go back and put

0:29 my own Christmas decorations out.

0:33 One week till Christmas and I'm back

0:36 putting Christmas stuff out. Join me,

0:40 shall you? It's beginning to look a lot

0:42 like Christmas. I think I might put a

0:45 Grinch of my own out in my own

0:49 my own way. They got full Grinch action

0:51 going on here, though. And the

0:53 inflatables in this yard. As always,

0:56 this house never disappoints. Decorates

1:00 for every holiday,

1:02 including Christmas.

1:11 There's jolly old Saint Nick right there

1:11 on the porch.

1:14 And my decor is not going to rival this

1:16 in any way, but doing my part. to be

1:20 part of the community during the

1:21 holidays in December and Halloween. Put

1:25 Halloween stuff up and now got to put my

1:27 Christmas stuff up. But this house is

1:29 awesome. Also go out at night at some

1:32 point during the duration of my stay

1:34 back in town. I'm here till till New

1:36 Year's, so I'm sure there'll be lots of

1:38 Christmas decor at night around

1:40 celebration. Maybe even tonight. I won't

1:41 be doing any inflatables and not a whole

1:43 lot of lights other than some solar

1:45 powered lights, but I do have quite a

1:47 bit of stuff that I've accumulated over

1:50 the past couple months post Halloween

1:53 before I went on this last road trip or

1:55 this last international trip.

1:58 I've been ready to put out. So, putting

2:00 it out today, but no inflatables for me.

2:02 Even though this Olaf is pretty awesome.

2:04 He just likes warm hugs. Also, it's 2

2:06 weeks to the day to New Year's Day.

2:10 Well, I'll be starting doing my US road

2:12 trips all next year.

2:15 Highways, byways, small towns.

2:19 Good times. Two weeks. Well, in just

2:21 about a month being gone, you notice a

2:23 lot of changes when you're driving

2:25 around. Doesn't look like that they've

2:28 started doing construction on this, the

2:29 town hall, but it really hasn't

2:31 progressed too much in the last month,

2:33 but it's getting there. Have the town

2:35 hall back soon enough.

2:38 Weather feels pretty good. I want to say

2:40 it's cool or crisp or anything like

2:41 that, but definitely not as hot as it

2:44 was last time I was in town. Still a

2:47 little bit of humidity in the air, but

2:49 definitely not warm. At least at this

2:52 particular moment, warmer than where I

2:54 just was overseas. Oh, yeah. Cup of Joe

2:58 to start the holiday Christmas decor

3:02 setting up, if you will. Good to see you

3:05 again. Like Lakefront

3:07 Lake shore lakefront. The lake is the

3:10 fountain over there isn't on. They saw

3:12 the new fountain. Maybe when it's I

3:15 don't know. I mean, it's I wouldn't say

3:16 it's winter conditions, so I don't know

3:18 why it wouldn't be on, but

3:21 Oh, yeah. It's a good day. It's a good

3:23 day. I'm going to need to get down here

3:24 at some point and see the snow and all

3:26 that.

3:29 Christmas tree is up. It was not

3:31 completely set up. They were setting it

3:32 up when I was out when I was here last,

3:36 but they did not have the decorations on

3:38 it. They did not have the lights and the

3:40 Christmas decor all set up. It's now

3:44 ready to rock. Before I bought my house

3:46 here in town, which is just down the

3:48 ways a bit. I'm not right in downtown. I

3:50 used to live over to this side of Market

3:52 Street up on the top floor. And I always

3:55 got a pretty good bird's eye perspective

3:58 either out of my window or hearing the

4:00 music. you know, if I was in my living

4:01 room or kitchen or my bedroom, I could

4:04 hear the music when they were pumping in

4:05 the the holiday Christmas tunes when

4:07 they were dropping the snow, which is

4:09 pretty fun and definitely always kind of

4:11 put me in a nice holiday mood. But now

4:14 I'm not right in the thick of it. And I

4:15 was definitely kind of nice when it

4:17 comes to parking because Downtown

4:19 Celebration during December after about

4:22 4 or 5:00 at night, there's no parking

4:24 anywhere. So,

4:27 parking situation has changed for the

4:29 better in my opinion. But I did like

4:31 being down here, but the parking was

4:32 definitely the the one thing during the

4:35 holidays that was a little bit of a

4:38 conundrum. I haven't showed this clock

4:40 in a while.

4:42 I always like how the minute hand has

4:44 the girl on the bike and then the hour

4:47 hand has the dog chasing the person on

4:50 the bike, which is kind of neat.

4:54 I'm not sure if it just went or if I

4:55 have to wait another full 60 seconds for

4:57 the bicycle was to move, but

5:01 established 1994, the town of

5:03 Celebration.

5:05 The Market Street clock.

5:08 It's a pretty decent size. Not as big as

5:10 some of the ones I saw when I was

5:11 overseas. Oh, there it goes. But it's

5:15 probably a lot bigger than you would

5:16 expect it to be because it is so high

5:18 up.

5:21 All right, I go home and decorate. Yeah,

5:23 the streets are always blocked off for

5:24 the entire month of December through New

5:26 Year's. I haven't decided when it comes

5:28 to my road trip if I am going to leave

5:31 on New Year's Day or leave on New Year's

5:33 Eve and start the first road trip, the

5:36 first highway that I'm doing lengthy

5:40 from coast to coast.

5:42 if I'm going to go ahead and get up

5:43 there and start it on

5:46 New Year's Day, which means I'd have to

5:48 leave on New Year's Eve, or I would just

5:49 want to start to get to head up there.

5:52 Either way, it's about two weeks from

5:53 now, so I'll be around for about two

5:54 weeks, give or take a day. Do not touch.

5:56 Don't even think

5:59 about touching this major thing. Oh, I

6:00 just felt some sprinkles.

6:03 This is These aren't my rules. Don't

6:06 touch. I don't know how you could

6:08 because it's stioned off. Maybe they

6:10 mean the fence. Nonetheless,

6:14 got

6:16 Mary, Joseph, maybe Jesus there under

6:19 plexi.

6:22 I have a little nativity I'm going to

6:23 put out as well. This is a pretty good

6:25 one. You got the camel, donkey, the

6:27 sheep, cow,

6:30 the angel, three wise men, gold,

6:33 frankincense, and myrr.

6:44 You always hear you always hear gold.

6:44 Gold is used all the time, but I other

6:47 than the Bible, I don't know if I've

6:48 ever heard the word frankincense or

6:49 myrr, but it's it just rolls off the

6:52 tongue because I'm, you know, familiar

6:53 with the Bible growing up, preachers

6:54 kid,

7:02 all the stories, Christmas, gold, we all

7:02 know. Not a lot of us really know what

7:04 frankincense and myrr is. Only these

7:07 guys.

7:09 Wonder which one has the myrrh.

7:23 That might be the frankincense.

7:23 That might be the myrr. There's a nice

7:25 little Disney setup. Got Goofy, Donald,

7:30 Mickey, and Minnie,

7:32 Santa up there near the porch. Those are

7:35 great little

7:37 little sculptures of the Mickey

7:39 figurines. The Mickey and Minnie and

7:40 Donald and Goofy.

7:44 Looks like Goofy is doing a little

7:46 little reading there.

7:48 He's reading the 12 Days of Christmas.

7:49 Or maybe he's singing the 12 Days of

7:51 Christmas. Donald looks very happy.

7:54 Again, at some point I will peruse

7:56 around town and show more of the decor

7:59 all illuminated under the shroud of

8:01 nightfall and the illumination of

8:03 beautiful lights. But for now, just

8:05 cruising around, getting ready to head

8:07 back to my place.

8:09 I bet this looks great at night. That's

8:12 Chris Cringo right there. Shy old Saint

8:14 Nick. Got some polar bear polar bears

8:17 climbing that tree. They got a lot of

8:19 Santaas in their yard.

8:28 Little drummer boy. Drummer man.

8:28 Wow.

8:30 This is a good setup.

8:41 The squirrel is perched upon the

8:41 donkey's head.

8:43 Manger scene

8:46 like right there between the ears.

8:47 There's now now it's jumping on his

8:49 back, his torso.

8:56 This is awesome.

8:56 Over in my garage where I have the

8:58 Christmas stuff that I purchased. I did

8:59 I do have a storage unit, but I didn't

9:01 put it in the storage unit because I

9:02 knew I was going to be getting back and

9:04 putting it out after Christmas before

9:06 New Year's. So, right around New Year's.

9:08 I'll put the Christmas stuff into the

9:11 storage unit along with my Halloween

9:12 stuff. and it'll be in there until, you

9:14 know, October of next year for Halloween

9:17 and then Christmas after that, you know,

9:19 a month or two after that. So, I put my

9:21 magnets, my international magnets. I put

9:24 the ones I just got on this current this

9:25 last international trip along with the

9:27 ones I gotten the rest of the year.

9:30 Probably going to put them in order at

9:31 some point so that I can itemize.

9:33 Started off with Bise in January and

9:36 then went from there. That way I can

9:38 recollect a little easier on the order

9:40 of the countries and how many I've gone

9:42 to. I think I've been to at least 12,

9:43 maybe 13. I'll do that at another point.

9:46 But I went to a decent amount of

9:47 countries this year. It's been a good

9:49 internet. It's been a good international

9:50 year. But I got my Christmas stuff kind

9:52 of wedged in here.

9:55 This isn't all of it, but this is some

9:57 of it. And I'm going to put it all out

9:58 right now. Get the yard all decorated.

10:02 Going to be changing out my my pilgrim I

10:04 got from Thanksgiving. He's been holding

10:06 it down here in this room while I've

10:08 been gone. So, he is going to be turning

10:11 into a Christmas character.

10:14 So, pilgrim is going to be put away as

10:16 well.

10:19 He's just been hanging out here while

10:20 I've been gone, watching over the place.

10:22 All right, starting off with the blank

10:24 slate. Let's get this thing decorated.

10:27 All right, first thing is the wreath and

10:32 Santa Claus down here. Little ho ho ho.

10:36 Now, last year, the only Christmas

10:38 decoration I had out was this hot cocoa

10:41 or maybe a coffee

10:45 little coffee cup, cocoa cup,

10:48 gingerbread man with the Santa cap and

10:50 the candy cane on. That was the only

10:52 thing I had last year. This year I'm

10:55 going to have a little bit more. Each

10:56 year it's going to progress, but this

10:58 year a little bit more than just one

10:59 blow mold. Off to a nice little start

11:01 here with the ornaments and my manger

11:04 scene.

11:13 Little Rudolph.

11:13 All right, I got a few of these. I got a

11:15 Mickey Mini and a Grinch this size. Just

11:17 opened it up. This is awesome. 3.35t

11:22 tall. So, 3 and a3 feet tall. That is a

11:25 great blow mold. Look at that. I like

11:28 that one.

11:30 Got to have a little

11:32 little manger scene and some Santa stuff

11:34 and also some Disney Christmas. A little

11:36 mixture of all three.

11:43 All right, the rain is coming in now. I

11:43 put Mr. Grinch here in the same spot

11:46 that

11:54 that pilgrim was. Oh, nice little wind

11:54 going through here, too. Hopefully these

11:55 blow molds don't completely fall down.

11:58 blow mold overload. Got my Mary

12:00 Grinchmas. So, actually four different

12:03 themes. You got mangers

12:11 and the birth of baby Jesus. Got the

12:11 Grinch.

12:12 Let's see. One, two. Got the Grinch

12:14 theme. Got Santa Claus theme. And then

12:17 the fourth theme.

12:23 What would the fourth theme be? Santa

12:23 Claus, baby Jesus, Grinch, and Disney.

12:27 That's it.

12:30 So, you got Grinch. You got some Santa

12:33 Claus. This is Santa Claus in his little

12:37 Florida version. Also, a pink flamingo

12:40 with a Santa hat on.

12:43 Nothing says Florida like that.

12:46 You got some stitch action over here.

12:49 Love these.

12:56 I think in future years, maybe next year

12:56 I'll put some lights out. This is This

12:58 is a pretty good second year in my

13:01 opinion.

13:02 Got my nativity here. Really love this.

13:26 It all started off last year with this

13:26 little guy.

13:28 Plenty of solar powered lights. I'm kind

13:29 of curious to see. A little bit of a

13:31 rainstorm just went through, so I don't

13:33 know if they're going to be all juiced

13:34 up and ready to go, but see how it looks

13:39 under the shroud of nightfall.

14:00 didn't go with anything up on the second

14:00 balcony. I did order, which is not here

14:02 yet. I ordered a Christmas flag for the

14:06 for the balcony up there, but went a

14:09 little heavier on the Halloween.

14:15 This year was my second year doing

14:15 Halloween. This is only my first year

14:16 doing Christmas other than the little

14:18 gingerbread guy. But in time, this will

14:22 escalate and grow. I'm pretty happy with

14:24 this, though. It's cute. It's very cute.

14:27 Except for the Grinch up there on the

14:28 porch. He's terrifying.

14:50 It's pretty good.

14:50 It's pretty good. And from one Grinch to

14:52 another. Cruising around. Celebration

14:56 again. There are Grinches everywhere.

14:58 This is not the Grinch at my place. This

14:59 is another Grinch elsewhere.

15:02 Lots of Grinches. I also want to go over

15:04 here to the Presbyterian Church where

15:07 they also have a nativity scene

15:10 right over there.

15:12 Make sure you do not climb on the hay or

15:16 the nativity.

15:29 This church does a live nativity every

15:29 year. Usually I'll do a I'll show up and

15:32 do a video of it, but I was out of town

15:33 when they did their live nativity this

15:34 year. I'm assuming they already did it.

15:37 Last year they had a they had a real

15:38 camel. It's pretty cool. I'm noticing

15:41 this house, which goes all out for

15:42 Halloween. They always do the castle.

15:45 They put the castle facade the front of

15:47 their home, which is awesome. They don't

15:48 go as heavy for Halloween as they do for

15:52 the holidays and Christmas. They do have

15:54 a few things out.

15:59 Kind of wondering if they just leave the

15:59 castle facade up during October,

16:02 November, and December.

16:05 Cornelius over there. Some snowmen. You

16:08 got Santa sleigh or a sleigh right here.

16:11 And you got one of the elves

16:15 presents in the forklift.

16:17 Little Santa male. North Pole

16:20 here.

16:32 The gingerbread house. Yeah, they

16:32 definitely don't go as heavy as they do

16:34 for for Halloween, but they still got

16:37 the mystery machine out. Mystery

16:39 machine.

16:41 The whole gang's got the Christmas tree.

16:43 They went out and chopped a Christmas

16:45 tree down and got on top of the van. And

16:47 the neighbors got these little

16:50 little yard ornaments.

16:58 There's a some big inflatables here.

16:58 Santa's towering over by like another

17:00 foot over the Grinch.

17:03 A little snow globe elf there. All

17:04 right, I'm over in Jeter Bin now. Again,

17:07 I mentioned this before. Jeter Bin used

17:09 to go all out for Halloween and

17:12 Christmas, especially Christmas, but

17:13 they don't they don't do as much as they

17:15 used to, but they still have quite a few

17:17 houses that participate.

17:19 They used to be they block the streets

17:21 off every night. They have foam snow

17:23 machines, music playing.

17:26 Now it's a little little quieter here in

17:28 Jeterbound.

17:30 This says Merry Wolfmas. These dog

17:33 inflatable dogs.

17:38 Oh, look at this one over here. This dog

17:38 is like it's got a peppermint stick in

17:41 its mouth looking for Santa. His friend

17:44 next to him says, "Santa paws, please

17:47 stop here." That dog looks very

17:50 startled.

17:53 Be interesting if the homeowners here

17:54 didn't even own a dog. That would be

17:56 really weird. Starting to get some

18:00 lights illuminating now.

18:09 Another little manger scene over there.

18:09 Very nice.

18:17 There's a pretty good Grinch like inside

18:17 the television.

18:33 Little combination Grinch and Griswalt.

18:33 In fact, take a look. Got Clark up there

18:36 on the ladder. And got some Disney

18:39 characters up there singing as well. But

18:41 they have gone all in on Grinch here.

19:05 going to Publix. I'll grab a bite to

19:05 eat, take it back to my place, and watch

19:09 Die Hard 2.

19:11 Die Hard 1 is one of my favorite action

19:13 films of all time. I do consider to be a

19:16 Christmas movie. Some people don't.

19:18 Takes place on Christmas Eve. Has a

19:21 happy ending

19:23 where John Mlan and his wife

19:27 end up getting reunited after their mar

19:30 marriage problems.

19:32 And that spawns off into the sequel. I

19:33 haven't seen the sequel in a long time.

19:35 Been a while since I watched part two,

19:37 but it evidently also takes place on

19:40 Christmas Eve.

19:42 So, you could kind of classify that as a

19:43 Christmas movie. What exactly makes up a

19:45 Christmas movie? It's definitely a very

19:47 heated argument whether the first one is

19:49 a Christmas film or not. I've always

19:52 seen it as so

19:55 just how people will say that Home Alone

19:56 is a Christmas film which I think was

19:59 released November of that year where Die

20:02 Hard was a summer release. But if you're

20:05 going off that, there's a lot of

20:06 Christmas films that were released in in

20:07 different times other than December. So

20:10 if that's the only criteria for being a

20:12 Christmas film, then I guess Die Hard

20:14 wouldn't be. However,

20:16 it's got to thinking about it

20:19 that Home Alone and Die Hard are pretty

20:21 similar. There are people there's, you

20:24 know, Kevin is by himself. John Mlan is

20:27 by himself trying to

20:31 keep those who are infiltrating a

20:34 building

20:36 from being overtaken.

20:43 You the wet bandits, they were not good

20:43 people.

20:44 So you kind of look at it that way. And

20:47 Kevin ended up taking care of business

20:48 just like John Mlan took care of

20:51 business and it was during the Christmas

20:53 time. So what's the difference between

20:56 the films

20:59 and they both have happy endings? Both

21:01 are reunited with their family at the

21:04 end.

21:05 So food for thought. Not that what I'm

21:08 saying is going to sway anybody's

21:09 decision because I don't know. It's just

21:10 a fun thing. It's not not not that big

21:12 of a deal if you perceive it to be or

21:13 not. But I'm going to watch the sequel

21:14 tonight. I'm watch part two.

21:17 I have not seen it probably since the

21:21 mid9s.

21:24 So, I'm excited to to see it. Also, I

21:26 believe William Sadler is the villain,

21:29 and I had forgotten. I was kind of

21:31 looking looking it up before I go home

21:32 to go watch it. He was at Shaw Shank

21:34 Redemption. He didn't have he didn't

21:35 have a very big part in Shawshike

21:37 Prediction, but evidently has a lot

21:38 bigger part in the airport version

21:43 of the sequel. No Nakatomi Plaza or

21:46 Nakattoi Tower. So, I'm going to get

21:49 some food, go home. I'll pass back by

21:52 through downtown Celebration and maybe

21:54 see some dusk deer. If not, no big deal.

21:57 Maybe show a few more lights, show my

21:58 place. Hopefully the solar power

22:02 is like kind of illuminating my my

22:04 little decor, my blow malt.

22:08 And then I'm going to kind of probably

22:10 turn in early. Last night I ended up

22:12 waking up or this morning I woke up at

22:14 3:00 a.m. Still on Paris time, which

22:16 would have been 9:00 a.m. in Paris. Went

22:19 to bed probably about midnight last

22:21 night. Woke up at 3:00 automatically. my

22:23 body thinking it was 9:00 a.m. So, I've

22:26 been up since 3:00

22:28 and I'm kind of feeling that. So, I'm

22:31 kind of getting reverse jet lag. It's

22:32 not as bad as going, you know, over to

22:35 England and over to France from the US.

22:38 It's not as bad coming back this

22:39 direction, but you get a little

22:40 moderate, mellow reverse jet lag. So,

22:45 just going to watch a movie, eat some

22:47 food, and

22:48 call it a night before December 25th. I

22:52 got to watch one of my all-time

22:53 favorites as well, Gremlins, which I

22:55 also consider Christmas flick. Lethal

22:58 Weapon,

23:00 also during the holidays. There's a lot

23:02 of great action movies, you know, of

23:05 that genre. Action-packed. Grandma's not

23:08 an action movie, but guess you classify

23:10 it as a comedy horror. Love it. All

23:13 those movies

23:15 I consider

23:16 Holly Joll Holly Jolly Christmas films.

23:21 I don't know. I just It's a fun time. I

23:24 think a nat just hit me in the cheek.

23:41 Yeah, downtown's getting pretty hectic.

23:41 Always during December, especially a

23:43 week out before Christmas, it gets

23:45 really busy down here.

23:54 Got the horserawn carriages out over

23:54 here, which is kind of cool. Hayride.

24:00 Doesn't look like anybody's really

24:00 lining up for the hay ride at the

24:02 moment.

24:11 See if we can get a peek down at the

24:11 tree here.

24:18 There we go.

24:18 There it is. All lit up. All right,

24:20 prepare for flashing strobe lights.

24:23 Take a look over here. This is in full

24:26 effect of the blinking lights going on

24:30 over there. Very nice. Very nice.

24:37 All right, some of the lights are

24:37 working. Some of the solar powered

24:39 spotlights.

24:41 Santa has a nice little glow about him

24:43 there with the surfboard.

24:50 Yeah, it looks pretty good.

24:50 This one over here.

24:52 The little lights aren't twinkling,

24:54 Clark.

24:56 And that one's not working for whatever

24:58 reason. Maybe it's not dark enough. This

25:00 one has a nice little glow over here

25:02 next to these vintagey looking glow

25:05 molds.

25:17 Like this one here is working pretty

25:17 good. Give it a nice little

25:21 little spotlight on Mickey and Pluto and

25:23 Minnie there.

25:25 Stitch has a good little light on him,

25:26 too.

25:32 Manger scene really looks good with the

25:32 two

25:34 all lit up.

25:37 Very nice. And the Grinch on the porch

25:42 really is illuminated.

26:10 Disney Plus. Yeah. Gotta love it.

26:10 You just log into a Disney streaming

26:12 service and you got the whole arsenal

26:15 here. The classic. Hard to beat the

26:18 first one.

26:20 I feel like I'm going to enjoy I think I

26:21 enjoyed it when I watched it years ago.

26:24 So, I'm going to watch the watch the

26:26 second one. Separated by two years, 88

26:29 and 1990. Same year as Home Alone. I

26:33 believe Home Alone was also 90.

26:37 And that's going to do it for today.

26:40 Thanks for watching. I'll see you in the

26:42 next video. The vlog

26:45 is over.

I’m Back Home (With Jet Lag) For The Holidays & Finally Put My Christmas Yard Decorations Up

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