Since the girls are a little bit older (especially Maggie) we decided to go on a few excursions when we were in Florida. The first one was to the South Florida Museum. Mallory has been wanting to go to the planetarium and this museum had one. The first thing we did was check out a production on the stars and the galaxies. It was a little too grown up for both girls, but they sat patiently and listened.
After the production, we went upstairs to see the manatee aquarium. We learned about how the aquarium is also home to a rehab facility for manatees and they help them get ready to go back into the wild. One thing we learned is manatees can live in fresh, salt, and brackish water.
On our last day, we headed out early so we could to two fun places before heading to the airport. The first was the Sarasota Children's Garden. This place was really neat - minus the nasty long snake that I saw going across part of it. Thankfully not anywhere where the girls were.
There is a room with all sorts of costumes for kids to put on and wear in the garden. I couldn't help think about all the nasty germs and cooties that had to be on them, but let the girls get dressed up anyway. Mallory chose to be Dorothy and Maggie was a princess.
Mallory steering the pirate ship.
Mallory the queen of the tire pyramid.
Our second stop was to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium to the "Winter," the dolphin, who was in the movie Dolphin Tale. Both girls were so excited to go and see Winter. We have seen both of the movies!
Here she is! She is world famous because she has no tail fin and uses a prosthetic tale.
