The world is your 🦪?

Trying new things makes life a little more exciting. Doesn’t it?

Hi, friends! It’s Brenda, back in your inbox for all the Central Florida Happenings.

I went out this past weekend for a little ✨ birthday celebration ✨ when one of my friends asked if I wanted to have some oysters. Huh?????

I had never tried them before and just from looking at them, I was not too keen to change that right at that moment. But I am a big proponent for trying new things and said, ‘Why the heck not?’ and the first oyster experience happened. Not my favorite, but I also didn’t hate it. Personally, I’d rather have an order of calamari or something for the table, but it was a fun experience nonetheless 💃.

If you take anything from that story, I hope it encourages you to try or see something new this weekend (or just order calamari if it’s a choice). Let’s get into what’s happening ⤵️

The holiday festivities will soon be underway at Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

Holidays in Space will launch starting this weekend 🚀. Take a trip through the stars with a nightly projection show, check out décor all over the complex and even see the NASA meatball-turned-holiday ornament.

Click here to learn more about the show and what else to expect during the event.

A show that’s set to bring some toe-tapping razzle dazzle is coming to downtown Orlando’s Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.

“Some Like It Hot,” the hit Tony and Grammy Award-winning Broadway musical set during the Prohibition era, follows two musicians who witness a mob hit and then go on the run and change their identities.

News 6′s Setting the Stage newsletter author Brooke Savage interviewed one of the stars, who explained how the musical comedy is based off a Marilyn Monroe film but with a modern twist. Click here to check out the interview.

And for ticket information, click here for all you need to know.

The holiday season is (unfortunately, or fortunately depending on who you speak to) officially wrapping up 🎁.

So if you haven’t made it out yet to see the Christmas lights and displays, now’s the time!

I put together a complete guide of festivals, lights and displays near you. Click here to check it out and have one last festive weekend before Christmas Day.

Other happenings:

🏄‍♂️ Surfing Santas’ wave-powered sled shreds into Cocoa Beach: A board meeting like no other, the 16th annual Surfing Santas event is almost here! This fun yuletide tradition brings thousands to Cocoa Beach to gather, surf and raise money for a great cause. And it’s all going down Christmas Eve. Here’s what to know.

📚 Love reading, nature? This Florida book club takes the library outdoors: For those who love to read, there’s a Central Florida book club taking the library to local parks exploring nature and talking books. Click here to check it out.

🩰 Go behind the Nutcracker curtain in Orlando Ballet’s award-winning documentary: The Orlando Ballet is wrapping up its performances of “The Nutcracker,” but they’re taking you behind the curtain in a new documentary airing on Christmas Eve on WKMG-TV. Click here to learn more.

🎿 Free water ski show in Winter Haven: The Cypress Gardens Water Ski Team is performing its Christmas edition show at Martin Luther King Park on Lake Silver. Be sure to check it out Saturday, Dec. 21, at 3:30 p.m. Find event details here. And for a behind-the-scenes look at the team, check out this story!

🎅 Santa, here? I know him! Track St. Nick on Christmas Eve: Santa Claus is coming to town, and you can track him as he delivers gifts around the globe on Christmas Eve! NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, will track the jolly, rosy-cheeked man on Dec. 24. Click here for more.

That’s all from me!

I hope everyone has a great weekend! Catch up with you all soon.

- Brenda