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There’s a reason Nashville is called Music City; it’s always lively and full of activities, no matter the season! The Christmas season tends to be particularly more festive with lights, holiday house tours, and a stay at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel top the list of things to do in Nashville to celebrate the winter holidays this season.
This two and a half hour tour takes you around Nashville to see spectacular holiday lights displays and then on to Franklin, a southern suburb of Nashville, a historic town where the Civil War Battle of Franklin took place. You’ll stop at the Lotz House, which is filled with Civil War-era antiques and decorated for the season. Expect to see a mix of residential light displays and over-the-top animatronics.
Experience some of the best holiday lights and festive displays that the Nashville area has to offer!
If you’re in the Nashville area, you have plenty of options to tour historic homes during the holidays.
Throughout the Christmas season, Gaylord Opryland Hotel hosts many holiday events and is all tricked out for the holidays with festive décor and more than three million twinkling lights that sparkle until midnight from November 8, 2019 through January 1, 2020. Get in the spirit of the season with hotel events including A Christmas Story on Ice, a holiday concert with Grammy-winner Trace Adkins, at the Tennessee Ballroom.
From November 23rd, 2019 to January 5, 2020, Holiday LIGHTS returns to Cheekwood mansion for the fourth year. More than a million twinkling lights decorate the opulent property twice a day. The event also includes real reindeer, s’mores pits, holiday carolers, Santa, gingerbread workshops and cash bars with wine, beer, and hot chocolate.
For something a bit different, head to this Christmas-themed pop-up bar at HQ Beercade. Adults 21 and over will enjoy 3D Christmas tree displays, thousands or ornaments, 2,000 feet of twinkling lights, and a life-size Santa sleigh. Plus, there will be holiday cocktails, light bites, and free pinball!
The General Jackson Showboat makes nightly cruises throughout the holiday season with a festive holiday dinner buffet and a full stage show featuring a dozen talented performers crooning Christmas classics. Baby, it’s cold outside, but it’s tasty warm inside the showboat as you cruise you way to downtown and back to Opry Mills.
The Nashville Zoo looks to the East to celebrate the holidays this year with Zoolumination, a display of 500 custom-made silk lanterns scattered across the zoo’s 60 acres, creating elaborate displays of animals, holiday-themed scenes, and even a 200-foot-long dragon. Visitors will also be entertained by Chinese acrobats, entertainers, cuisine, and hand-made crafts.
There’s always an appreciated audience at this run of the classic Tchaikovsky holiday ballet, mainly because the kids in the cast pack the crowd with relatives. Even if you don’t have a dog in the hunt, Nashville’s Nutcracker is always entertaining, with talented dancers, great music, and a few local jokes, and visual puns thrown in to keep things interesting. Don’t be surprised to see the Sugar Plum Fairy riding in a pedal tavern!
The husband and wife powerhouse team of country stars, Vince Gill and Amy Grant, are a beloved Nashville staple. Every year, they carve out part of December in their busy touring calendars to entertain their fellow Nashvillians with a multi-night residency at the Ryman. This year’s special guest is Rodney Crowell, so it will be absolutely magical!
It’s the most magical time of the year! Embrace the city you love to call home and experience the love and joy of the holiday season at one or many of these festive Nashville events. After celebrating out on the town, visit a local Lennar community and find your perfect Home for the Holidays, available now!
What make the holidays such a special time for friends and family are the traditions that come along with them. And each family has their own – whether it’s something as simple as grandma bringing her world-famous eggnog or ditching the hours of cooking for take out. So, for this holiday season, why not start some new traditions? We’ve put together a few creative ideas that’ll help you get in the holiday spirit and create memories you’ll cherish long after the season is over.
A little friendly competition is a fun way to kick off the holidays. The kitchen is the heart of the home, so why not invite your friends and family over for some baking goodness. Get the kids involved and let them help you measure ingredients, try new recipes, old family recipes and everything you can think of. As the years go by and everyone’s baking skills develop, you can take it to the next level by introducing a special ingredient they must use for the competition. Plus, take some treats to your neighbors and spread the cheer!
With the new year right around the corner, the holidays offer the perfect opportunity to get a fresh new start. While you’re going through your storage to get decorations, look around and see what things you haven’t used in years. Get the whole family involved and everyone can choose a few items to donate, such as old coats, blankets, hats, boots and baby clothing.
To ease the anticipation of Christmas for the little ones, many families allow them to open one present the day before, but you can add to this tradition! Instead of letting the kids open up their new game console that’ll have them sitting in front the television for hours, gift everyone in the family matching pajamas. They can look forward to getting new pajamas every year and your family will be ready for pictures the next day.
With all the madness that goes on during the holiday season, it’s easy to forget the real meaning of it. Try to incorporate acts of kindness into your family’s traditions. Pay for someone’s order at a drive thru, fill a parking meter, deliver flowers to the nurse’s station at your local hospital or make a family day out of it and volunteer at a soup kitchen. During dinner, take a few minutes to reflect and go around the table and see how everyone helped spread the holiday spirit.
Take a stroll or drive around your neighborhoods in search of the brightest and most creative lights display. Make note of some of your favorite homes and neighborhoods and come back every year and see if they’ve outdone themselves. Plus, take some inspiration and apply your ideas to your own home!
The great thing about holiday movies is that they are truly timeless. Movies like Elf, Home Alone, The Nightmare Before Christmas and others capture the spirit of the season – and best of all, they come in many genres! You loved them when you were a kid and you love them as you get older, often finding new things about them that you might have previously missed. That’s why choosing a movie that the whole family can watch over and over again is a great tradition!
The holiday spirit has made its way to Waterside! All along this stunning riverfront community, decorative lights are illuminating the way for festive fun and seasonal cheer. We held a Lennar Lights contest for homeowners to showcase their best and brightest outside of their homes, and we can’t wait for you to see what they’ve come up with! Our shining stars this year were Paul & Kim Fanning, Christopher & Heather Hout, and Rick & Kim Morris.
Want to see these twinkling townhomes in person? All of us at Lennar invite you to come take a look! Available for home tours from 10 AM to 6 PM every day of the week, Waterside is waiting to welcome you with open arms. Of course, you can also just drive by to see how bright these homes are shining…
Located at 2375 State Road in Bensalem, PA, Waterside provides the peace and privacy you love while being close to the excitement of downtown Philadelphia. Tucked along the scenic banks of the Delaware River, this innovative community is a part of the thriving culture and energy that has recently settled into Bensalem.
This holiday season, envision spending 2020 in a brand new townhome that fits your preferences perfectly. Built with the finest features and modern, expert design, our townhomes are where your best moments are waiting to happen. We can’t wait to share the holiday fun with you! Cheers to the beautiful days ahead.
