The holidays are here and it’s always fun to get out and about and attend festive events and attractions.
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One of our favorite places to visit in Northeast Ohio is the Cleveland Botanical Garden. A few years ago we were there during the holidays and enjoyed the festive decorations and gingerbread house display. That’s why we were excited about their new holiday event Glow Wintershow 2012. With the holiday season here we couldn’t wait to attend!
Glow has even brighter and more magical additions to the garden’s traditional Wintershow. Along with the beautiful trees, holiday flowers, and gingerbread houses there is now The Garden Express Train Ride, a 25-foot evergreen decorated with live pointsettias, a chance to make your own gingerbread house, live holiday music and carolers, unique treats, even more festive plants.
We were pleased to see the lobby and entrance decorated beautifully when we walked in.
Right away Kora & Logan were amazed at the animated window display in the store. The elves spinning on a carousel were a big hit and very cute.
The 25 foot tree adorned with poinsettias was beautiful and many families were posing in front of it and snapping photos that I’m certain will end up in Christmas cards this year.
The gingerbread houses displayed throughout the building were beautiful and each had a unique and creative theme and all were full of detail and imagination.
We enjoyed seeing the holiday decorations throughout the gardens and found the seasonal flowers beautiful.
One of our favorite parts of the Cleveland Botanical Garden is the Eleanor Armstrong Smith Glasshouse. We all find it fun walking through the Spiny Desert of Madagascar, seeing the turtles, and trying to find the chameleon.
We also adore the Rainforest of Costa Rica which is filled with butterflies and birds. You know it’s a really lucky day when a butterfly decides to land on you. We always go in hoping and sometimes it happpens. This visit it didn’t, but we still had a wonderful time and loved the addition of the holiday flowers throughout the glass house. The butterflies did too!
See the butterfly?
There it is!
When we were there a trio was playing lovely holiday music against a beautiful twinkling backdrop. It was even “snowing” a bit in the room which the kids thought were fun & made for some great Christmas photos.
At the end of our visit we had all worked up an appetite and were thrilled to see the selection of holiday goodies for sale. We bought Kora & Logan gingerbread men and their smiles were as big as the ones on their cookies.
We had a wonderful time at the Cleveland Botanical Garden Glow Wintershow and would recommend it to anyone in the area or from out of town. It’s a beautiful, fun-filled, and festive holiday event that is picturesque and a perfect way to slow down and spend some good old-fashioned family time together during this busy time of year.
This looks like a wonderful place to visit. Thank you
This would be a fantastic place to visit. Thanks for sharing.
Gorgeous!
what a beautiful place!
I here such great things about Cleveland – and this is beautiful. My husband and I woudl like to visit one day.
I’m from Cleveland, OH as well & we love the botanical gardens. This looks like a fun event.
We just went today and had a blast! Funny that we took almost all the same pics…except your kids aren’t in mine :)
It looks very pretty.
I think the smiles in the last photo speak loudly :)
Such a great way to enjoy the season without freezing outside!
Beautiful!!!! i wish there was a place like this near me, i would be mesmerized by the window display too.
Looks Like A Great Holiday Event! I Love This Time Of Year!:)
What a fun place to visit. My family would really enjoy this.
I would love to go see this. We don’t have anything here like that.
The Denver Botanic Gardens has Blossoms of Light every year. They put over a million lights on the trees & bushes and it’s beautiful.
We got a sneak peek prior to opening and can’t wait to see it in its full glory!
How pretty! Wish we had something like this around here to visit!
Beautiful pictures- I will have to check this out. I think my kids would love it!
I’ve never been here and need to change that soon!
What a beautiful place!
nice gingerbread houses
What a fun outing! Everything is beautiful! And the kids are so big now…they are no longer babies!
so pretty!! i love christmas events and stuff like this. i’m kind of jealous our area doesn’t do much like this.