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Wellington Florida Real Estate News: Palm Beach Steeplechase is almost here! Mark your calendars and get your tickets now.

Wellington's Palm Beach Steeplechase is Saturday November 28th- the Saturday after Thanksgiving right across the street from Palm Beach International Equestrian Center.

People come from all over the world to compete and to be entertained at Steeplechase.

Of course one of the highlights is you will get to dine on our son's exquisite culinary delights that will sure to please your palette. Joshua (our second oldest son) is the executive chef at White Horse Tavern, formerly Tavern On The Green- at the Palm Beach Equestrian Club. He has already created the menus for the event. There will be several tents that will be provided for private parties for the day. If you are planning to eat at White Horse Tavern you will need to make your reservations now or else the restaurant will be totally booked. If you miss eating at the restaurant during Steeplechase make sure you get in this season to dine. Our son, no bias intended is one of the best chefs in the United States.

We anticipate thousands of people to attend this event. The Steeplechase race is so exciting to watch. We have so much fun at Steeplechase because most all the Equestrian events here in Wellington Florida are Polo events and Hunter/Jumper and Dressage events. We don't get many races here so Steeplechase adds another dimension to the venues that make Wellington Florida a first class and world famous equestrian area.

The race is like the kick off to our equestrian winter season. The top Steeplechase riders will be coming from Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and other states and many countries to compete in 5 races for a total of $200,000 in prize money.

Steeplechase was a race that began in Ireland in the 18th century where the race was from one church steeple to another. Eventually this race became popular all over the world.

The riders and their horses will race clockwise for 2.25 miles including over hurdles. This year there will be an additional race, the Celebrity Race. This is definitely an event you will not want to miss. Horse racing is always crowd pleasing.

The gates will be open for tailgaters at 9 a.m. and the first race will begin at 1 p.m.

This year there will be four designated tailgate sections. You bring your car or tent, bring your own food and drink and get ready to have a blast!

Whole Foods Market is sponsoring a tailgate contest for the most creative, most equestrian and most culinary. We also can not leave out, the most Palm Beach! This is a whole entertaining section just on its own. You should see how people go all out on decorating and preparing for this contest.

Tailgate fees- each car is charged $295 and that includes four tickets. If you want to have a tent space the fee is $395 for a 10x10 and includes 8 tickets. You can also reserve the Home Stretch Rail Chalet for $3000 which includes 40 tickets.

Other activities will include:

• A tug of war between the firefighters and the sheriff's deputies.
• A classic car parade.
• Harley- Davidson motorcycle parade.
• A local Mayors' race. A Female Hat Contest.

There are also lots of entertaining activities for the kids:

• Children's carnival. Pony
• Jugglers, Face Painters,
• Balloon Artists,
• A Petting Zoo,
• Pony Rides,
• Bounce Houses.

And don't forget about the entertaining Jack Russell Terrier Race.

General admission is $20 in advance or $25 the day of the event and children under the age of 12 are free.

Parking is $10 per car for general parking, please see above for tailgate fees. VIP parking is available for $25.

See you there!

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Wellington Florida Real Estate News: Palm Beach Steeplechase Is Almost Here! Copyright © 2009 by Katerina Gasset* all rights reserved*

Thanks to Xerox sending out a Thank You card to our soldiers is simple, fast and free.

At this time of the year we can take some time out to teach our children about giving thanks and living in gratitude.
The best way of course to teach gratitude is by being a good example of being in a thankful state of mind.

You can gather your children around your computer right now and go to this site:

Let's Say Thanks- In Support of our Troops.

Xerox prints out the postcards and then these cards go into the care packages that Givetothetroops® sends to our soldiers.
What a gift Xerox is giving to the troops. I really appreciate a company setting a great example like this.
The cards have all been designed by children and are patriotic. There are many patriotic symbols and messages to choose from.

There is a link on the site where you can read the responses from soldiers around the globe.
For some of these soldiers, your card will be the only mail they get from home.

Here are some of the comments sent back by different servicemen and women:

Please be kind- take a moment out of your day to send a card for free to a soldier today. Please Reblog!

Palm Beach Florida- Back In The Day- Guess Who Trivia!

Palm Beach Florida was really popping in the era between World War I and the Great Depression!

Florida was really the rockin’ out place to be, to party and to live it up.

So here are some highlights- trivia you may not know!

• Al Capone dreamed of making his home in Boca Raton Florida. He started to settle there but was put into prison. He later settled in Miami where he lived out his years and died of syphilis.

• John Dillinger and his gang fired machine guns into the air at a house in Palm Beach on New Year’s Eve of 1933-34.

• Hoagy Carmichael was a clerk in a West Palm Beach law firm before he made his fortune in music.

• In 1921 President Warren Harding pushed for the creation of the Intracoastal Waterway because he was stranded with some people in a channel near Fort Lauderdale. He never forgot his miserable day in Florida.

• The famous Architect who inspired much of Boca Raton and Palm Beach’s homes and shopping centers- Addison Mizner- buried his pet spider monkey ‘Little Johnny Brown’ somewhere on Worth Avenue. For those of you who do not know, Worth Avenue is second only to Rodeo Drive in Los Angeles.

• Al Capone’s son was arrested in North Miami in 1965 for shoplifting aspirin and flashlight batteries totalling $3.50.

• Babe Ruth was staying in Palm Beach in 1930 holding out for the salary of $85,000. He eventually signed a 2 year contract for $80,000 per year which was $5000 more than President Hoover made. This made Babe Ruth the highest paid baseball player in history.

• George Gershwin stayed in Palm Beach to write the opera, ‘Porgy and Bess’ in 1935.

• In 1929 Boca Raton banned public begging, brawling and stubborn children!

• The first radio station in Palm Beach county was WJNO which opened on July 31, 1936.

Do you have any Palm Beach Trivia to share?

Make your own mark by selling your house with Nestor and Katerina Gasset- while we all have fun with trivia, there is nothing trivial about getting your house sold!

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Palm Beach- Back In The Day- Guess Who Trivia! - Copyright © 2009 by Katerina Gasset* all rights reserved*

Savanna In Weston Florida- Homes For Sale 

We had this cute little listing in Savanna that was priced just right, it was a short sale and we got it approved to close as a short sale. We had a lot of offers on this particular property with multiple offers coming in at the same time. It is a very popular area to live because the homes in Savanna of Weston Florida are just a 30 mile drive to Miami and a 20 mile drive to downtown Fort Lauderdale. Savanna is just minutes from Sawgrass Mill mall and Wannado City®. If you need to do a short sale on your home in Savanna in Weston Florida give us a call.  We have a buyers' agent that specializes in the Weston homes for sale market.

Savanna is a gated community with a guarded gate. It is the largest gated community in Weston Florida. There are around 12,000 people residing in Savanna and there are over 60,000 people living in Weston Florida. 

There are 2,963 homes in Savanna in Weston Florida.  Those homes are divided up into different sections based on price ranges.  

Here is some fun trivia about Savanna that even if you live here you may not know: 

• Savanna has 8 parks, 
• 855 light poles, 
• 119 fire hydrants, 
• 87 cul de sacs, 
• 5,252 Swale Trees, 
• 9,640 irrigation heads. 

The Savanna clubhouse and amenities are extremely varied. The clubhouse here even offers swimming classes and Tae Kwon Do and dance classes. You can rent the clubhouse out for your Birthday parties, anniversary parties, Bar Mitzvah parties and whatever your entertaining venue might be. 

The pool area is very inviting! The resort style pools are immense so you can get your daily laps in right here. There is a large lap pool and a main pool with a waterslide.  There is a kiddie pool that is interactive and there is a wading pool for your teeny ones.  and a playground.

The amenities also include to lot playgrounds, a roller hockey rink, a multi-purpose field and Basketball courts. 

There is a 9 hole miniature golf put put course with lots of shade and decorative landscaping all along the way. They even have a little store right at the clubhouse with snacks, sandwiches and such. This is real resort style living. You never have to leave home for vacation! 

Many of the homes are on the lake with great views. 

The price ranges of the homes range from the low $200,000's to over 3 million$ USD depending on the size of the lot and the square footage of the home. 

The search screen below is a search of the homes for sale in Olympia - Wellington Fl. You can see all the homes for sale right now in Savanna in Weston Florida. If you want to search other areas just change the search fields below. It is interactive. You can use it right here and now! No clicking to another site. Just search for your home right here. Have fun and don't hesitate to call Nestor Gasset and Katerina Gasset with any help you may need at 561-753-0135.

Wannado City® at Sawgrass Mill in Sunrise Florida- A Kid's Place You Will Not Want To Miss Out On!

Our homeschool support group planned a group field trip for the kids to Wannado City® last week. It worked out great for us because we hired a new buyers' agent who works in Weston Florida and that is right close to Sawgrass Mill in Sunrise. Sawgrass is absolutely my favorite shopping mall in the world besides all the shops at Disneyworld. ( we are Disney Fans), but more about shopping at Sawgrass in another post. I am not a big shopper. I like to buy online and I don't buy anything I don't really need or that does not serve a purpose, and absolutely no dust collectors.

So our plan was to spend a day with Julie Locke our new buyers agent in Weston. We asked her to take us on a tour so we could take tons of photos and blog about the are so we could get her the buyers leads that we will get from blogging. We spent the night in a hotel right next to Sawgrass and in the next morning met our homeschool group outside of Wannado City which is located right at the Sawgrass Mills shopping mall close to Rainforest Cafe.

Our son was standing in line and started meeting and talking to a couple other homeschooled boys around his age. He is 7 years old and is very good about making friends with other kids. He and another boy connected well and ended up being buddies the whole day. Of course that meant that I made a new friend also in this boy's mom since we were going around together following the boys on their trips around Wannado City®.

Wannado City® is the largest indoor theme park in the United States. It is so much fun. I was saying to Nestor; I wish they had a place like this when I was a kid. I would never want to leave! You can not do everything in one day so you need to pick your favorite things to do first and then go back through the city to do the second favorite things to do.

Wannado City® is a place where the kids get to explore many different occupations in near to real life situations. The parents are allowed to watch from outside but for most activities the parents are not allowed to go into the specific career buildings except for a few of them.

The first thing on the boys' list was to become Police Officers. So they go into this miniature, child's level, police station that looks very real, a dozen children at a time. Each event takes about 20 minutes. In the police station the adult cops divide the kids into cops and robbers. My son and his buddy were robbers. So they get to go rob the Wannado City® bank, ( just run in and steal the Wannado dollars out of the Wannado City® bank) then they try to hide as the cops come to find them and put them in jail It was so funny and the employees acting out with the kids seemed like they were really enjoying themselves.

The next really fun thing the boys did was CNN. Our son was the Weatherman! He had SO much fun with this activity. It was a real life sound stage with the green screens with the tele-prompters and all! Nestor ordered a DVD of his performance. This one is going to stick with him for a while. He still talks about it a week later!

Among the other events the boys did were:

• the Firefighters,
• Airline Pilots,
• Newspaper Reporters and writers,
• Candy makers, Bakers,
• Pizza makers,
• Bank tellers,
• Cookie bakers,
• Private Eye Detectives,
• and then our son's favorite was mining for gems.

At each one of these learning stations they get paid in Wannado Dollars which are redeemed at the end of the day for junk toys or they can use them to do things like ride the bus around Wannado City ® or climb the rock wall. Well, in the mining trip, they got these fake gold nuggets that they then go take to the jewelry store to sell. It was such a blast!

What a great and fun way for kids to learn about the different careers in a very hands on way. We are going to go back to Wannado City® again!

The one thing that is kind of irritating is that for the parents: once you go in you can not leave. If you leave, you can not get back inside. Nestor was in Wannado CIty ® with us until after Lunch. That is when he told me, this is why mothers have more patience. He went shopping while we stayed and finished up our tour and activities at Wannado City.

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Wannado City® at Sawgrass Mill In Sunrise Florida - A Kids' Place You Will Not Want To Miss Out On! Copyright © 2009 by Katerina Gasset* all rights reserved*