TEMPLE TERRACE, Fla. — It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Temple Terrace as the city hosted its annual Winter Wonderland event at Woodmont Park.

What You Need To Know

  •  The city of Temple Terrace is hosting its annual Winter Wonderland event

  •  Officials expected 1,500 people to attend

  •  They used ice makers to create snow for children to enjoy

Dreaming of a white Christmas is definitely more of a pipe dream in Florida, but the Caccio family gets to see a piece of that dream take shape.

“It looks like it’s going to be a good time,” EJ Caccio said.

Caccio grew up in Temple Terrace and has seen all the events the town hosts.

This is the first time he and his family get to enjoy snow, a piece of the holidays in his hometown that’s usually thousands of miles away.

“The kids all love it,” he said. “It's very cool. Very cool and different. “

It’s all a part of the city’s annual Winter Wonderland.

“It kind of is, like it takes you back, you know, when you were a kid,” Caccio said.

With help from Lee’s Ice, they build a little slide out of snow with inner tubes for children to go on to make them feel like they’re in the mountains and not in Florida.

“A lot of these kids are from Florida, where it's hot and we obviously don't get any snow,” said Phil Jeter with the city of Temple Terrace. “So, they hear ice slide, they see snow, and they want to jump up and go down the slide.”

According to Jeter, the town usually gets about 1,500 people at this event every year, and they love to see the joy it brings for folks this time of year.

“All the neighbors are out, neighbors and families and little ones,” Jeter said. “It's really just a nice event for the community.”

Considering it’s free, people get to enjoy live music, Christmas lights and other things that just scream Christmastime in Florida — which, at least in Temple Terrace, includes snow.

“We'll see how fast it melts,” Jeter said. “Hopefully it makes it to the event, but no, it'll be there throughout the event and probably even for a couple of days after, it'll be a pile of snow out here.”

Even if that white Christmas doesn’t happen this year, these folks get a bit of a taste of it this holiday season.

The city also hosted a golf cart Christmas light parade that went throughout the town.