I’m a fan of gingerbread, be it cookies, muffins, gingerbread men, or gingerbread houses. But, my favorite is gingerbread cake because it is so moist and gooey. I like to believe the molasses adds some healthful iron benefits, but that’s likely wishful thinking.
Gaylord Palms Resort is an oasis in the midst of busy Orlando. Stroll along with serpentine paths lined with giant ferns, Cabbage Palms, and verdant greenery and you’re walking in a botanical garden, the Louisiana bayou or an island paradise. Orchids, waterfalls, streams– even a lake with a boat fit inside the hotel atrium. The behemoth structure seems like a biosphere. Why, one could live within the confines for days and never need to go outside.
Anyone who knows me understands that I am drawn to Early American decor; the richness of cherry wood, furniture with simple elegant lines, and the practical usefulness of tools. I don’t know why but perhaps I lived a prior life in that time period. Anyway, I feel comfortable sitting in a straight back chair at a wooden trestle table, adore the streets of Colonial Williamsburg and sleep in a canopy bed.
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