Father’s Day adventures, we went on a hike! Did you do anything fun to celebrate? 🎉
Wishing James and all the amazing dads out there a Happy Father’s Day! Thanks for making our dreams come true, we love you big!! 🥹❤️🫶🏡
Tag: things to do
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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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Earth day
In honor of Earth Day being tomorrow 4/22 here are some fun ways to celebrate! 🤗
🪴plant a garden
🦋 hold a butterfly
🍨 eat ice cream
🏞️go for a hike
🚤 enjoy a boat ride
🍪bake cookies
🪁fly a kite
🛝go to the park
🏟️watch a game
🧺 have a picnicHow will you celebrate? 🌎
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DC League of Super-Pets
Are you a Kevin Hart or Dwayne the Rock Johnson fan? They take the meaning of friendship to a new level in DC League of Super-Pets!🍿🐾
It’s so cute and we had the best time attending an advance screening for the movie, I don’t know who laughed more us or the kids! 💯🤣
Check out all the super pet action only in theaters July 29!
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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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Wild Flowers
This will be the 3rd year we made it to the wild flower fields at Myakka River State Park, so I’m calling that a new tradition.
The cost of admission to the park is $6 and you can stay all day. That was more than enough time for us to grab our pictures and videos, in total we might have stayed 45 minutes, but that’s only because it was a school day and we had zooms to get to. In the past we’ve packed a picnic and spent the day at the park, hiking and seeing the amazing views.
Florida actually has many wild flower blooms from Spring to early Winter all over the state, so I’ll be making it my mission to visit some of them!!
Click here Myakka River State Park to learn more!
We parked right by the bathrooms We parked all the way in the park near the boathouse. Before you get there you will pass tons of flower fields, these tend to be busy areas because everyone see the flowers and immediately pulls over. What I like to do is go all the way to the back, we had the entire end of the field to ourselves, not to mention the bathrooms were right there. Which helped a ton to wash up after, we were covered in pollen.
As always use caution, this is Florida and the park does have gators and snakes. We were very clear with the kids to stay close and watch their feet.
Here are some past years:
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