Aero Pines Park is celebrating its 10th Annual Winter Festival , featuring the oldest holiday skating pond in SL . The park rangers have hosted not only the legacy skating venue for many years , but many other unique holiday events and activities such as concerts , the Nutcracker Ballet , snowmobile races , sleigh rides , etc .
Our Winter Festival started out as a land group holiday party back in 2006 . To our surprise , many avatars discovered our little holiday skating pond , surrounded by Christmas decorations , and activities like sleighs , toboggans , and dog sleds . Some came to hang out , some asked if they could have a party there . But it came to be , late in the year , people would call and ask if there was going to be another winter holiday build . We couldn ’ t get out of it after that . Our friends and fans demanded it !
As the landmass grew , so did the Winter Festival . Imagine a winter wonderland spanning 16 regions ! There were miles of sleigh and snowmobile trails , an 8 region cross country ski tour , hot air balloon ride over the snowy white mountains and valleys , plus many other winter sports and activities . And there was always the skating pond . Hundreds of people a day came to skate to holiday music in December .
Eventually , community estates like Aero Pines found it harder to sustain . One after another , regions of the park went offline . There was still much to do and explore on the sims , and the park still hosted unique popular annual events and activities . We were so close to our 10th anniversary , but the overhead and time involved was getting to be too much . Meanwhile there were plans to redevelop the park in Unity3D , but there was no multiplayer online platform that was working out yet .
Just as we were considering closing the park in late 2015 , the incredibly talented iMoogi- Radio . com team came to the rescue to col-
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