Have you visited Anna Maria Island? We love the laid-back vibe. When you go expect to find plenty of cute shops, restaurants, and some of the best ice cream we’ve tasted!
Tag: florida travel
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Myakka Flower Fields
It’s becoming one of my favorite traditions to visit the flower field on Mother’s Day. Myakka River state park, Sarasota Fl is in full bloom with Coreopsis around mid-May. This year we were a little disappointed, less flowers but we were still able to find some nice patches.
Here’s a look back visiting the park over the years, and you can see the difference in blooms, I guess it all depends on the weather!
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Shark’s Teeth
We had so much fun hunting for Sharks teeth 🦈
📍Caspersen Beach, Venice Florida
Click to see Reel The first thing you notice about Caspersen Beach is the water, it looks extra blue, and the sand is speckled black. That’s because the sand is actually made up of the fossils and minerals of crushed up shark’s teeth! After a quick google search 😅 Millions of years ago when Florida was under water the beaches area filled with sharks, now all that’s left are their fossilized teeth.
It didn’t take us long to find our first tooth, within the first 10 minutes 🤗 This was our first time going and we will for sure be back! The other cool thing to mention about this beach is the airport is right next door so you get an incredible view of small planes taking off and landing the whole time!
Have you ever found a shark’s tooth? Where do you like to go? 😎
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Flower Fields in Florida
Stop and smell the flowers! 🌸
Have you visited any of Florida’s Wildflower fields?
Throughout the Spring and Fall Wildflowers are blooming all over the state.🌸Paynes Prairie Preserve State Park: 100 Savannah Blvd. Micanopy FL 32667
🌸Mike Roess Gold Head Branch State Park 6239 State Road 21 Keystone Heights FL 32656
🌸Withlacoochee State Trail 3100 S. Old Floral City Road Inverness FL 34450
🌸Myakka River State Park 13208 State Road 72
Sarasota FL 34241🌸 Falling Waters State Park 1130 State Park Road
Chipley FL 32428🌸 Jonathan Dickinson State Park 16450 S.E. Federal Highway Hobe Sound FL 33455
Last year I shared our visit to Myakka State Park, we always go around Mother’s day. The park is a beautiful spot to hike and it makes a great family tradition. 🌼
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The Citrus Attraction at Boyett’s Grove
It all started because Liam wanted to go mini golfing. I hoped on Groupon and found not only Mini golf, but a Petting Zoo, Ice Cream, Antique Shoppe, and Citrus Store, and Dinosaur cave all in one! The price was good too, the Groupon is $49.95 for 6 people for all the stuff, Perfect price, done!
The reviews were interesting, something like “I’ve never seen anything like it!” Or “Your eyes won’t know where to look first” They we’re all very intriguing and positive!
The art work is nothing we’ve ever seen before, with 3D glasses the paint pops off the wall.
There is an entire section of taxidermy animals that the boys found fascinating. The nice part was we had the place to ourselves, and we didn’t really have anyone hovering saying don’t touch that or anything. You are free to roam as you please.
The kids fell in love with a few of the animals, this camel is a sweet heart and followed us all over eating almost an entire loaf of bread.
They also have this cool dinosaur cave exhibit that we all enjoyed It was fun to see such a variety of animals and all the cages and habitats looked clean and well cared for! Off the top of my head I remember zebras, monkey, goats, alligator, guinea pigs, mini horse, donkey, llamas, alpacas, tortoise, and big birds like emu.
I didn’t get a shot of the mini golf, but it’s inside and covered which is great from the heat and sun, but the building where it is ended up being too dusty for my allergies and really bothered me. The kids loved the course, it was challenging but still fun!
From their page: Each of our Citrus Gifts and Grove fresh fruit Baskets is carefully picked and packed with the finest fresh Florida oranges, tangerines, grapefruit and honeybell fruit and shipped in our handsome and sturdy gift cartons! We will deliver fresh fruit baskets and special Florida treats to your friends and family
If you have time do some research about this place, it has a wild history and could easily be a movie!
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Skates
If you missed my story post, Harper and I got roller skates! She’s pretty good, and I haven’t broken any bones yet..
You can find my skates here
We got lucky right after a thunderstorm the sky cleared and the beach was empty, making for a beautiful sunset!
The Mommy and Me Flag Cover up is from last year but you can still get it Next-Day just in time for the fourth! Coverups
These hats are new too and I can’t wait to wear them all summer! Hats I just got two woman’s hats, Harper must have a big head because it fit her perfect!!
The only thing that we’re missing is sparklers, but apparently there is a huge fine if you light one in the state park. I wasn’t going to risk it lol
In the end I’m glad I could inspire Harper, this girl has been skating around the house and won’t take them off. She had a pair of little tikes skates but they are more plastic and not as nice, she never really cared to use them. These roll nice and she looks so cute!
Annnnd Our swimsuits are from Target, you might recognize mine as the Fun Mom suit from my post here
I hope your enjoying the rest of the weekend, I’m off to plan an extravagant picnic for work, stay tuned.. and go check out our skating post if you missed it!
Emelia Simoneau 