Gingerbread Village is a holiday tradition.
I have the employees that work here who started coming
to Gingerbread Village 30 years ago
and now work at the hotel.
- Candy!
- So this year's theme,
celebrating toys throughout generations.
You're going to see
a Rubik's Cube with every game that you can think of.
A wonderful,
beautiful tree house, a doll house, a race track.
And the inspiration from each of these
comes from the individual elves
( joyful music 🎵)
Breakthrough T1D
has so many children they support
and so they go through a selection process to select
the four elves that then partner
with our four fabulous architecture firms.
As they take the theme and tie it to their own
personal experiences.
- Since our theme was Doll Revolution,
we thought, what would be nice to incorporate
the story of our elf.
She was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes,
when she was five.
And then we just showing, when she was healthy before
that, when on her three year old toddler stage.
And when she got diagnosed in a scary place.
And then later, how she found a way to overcome
that and live with type 1 diabetes.
And now she's a spokesperson, to help other kids,
to feel safe and feel empowered,
[Callette Nielson] So there are little hidden gems in each one of them.
So I like to tell people,
when you come to Gingerbread Village,
make sure you look and look again,
because you might miss something.
There's just so much
creativity and beauty and joy in each structure.
( joyful music 🎵)