Let me take a moment to paint a picture for you. Long before I became a resident and an honorary Floridian, my family would take vacations to Florida. One of my earliest memories as a boy was packing into the truck and heading to the Kennedy Space Center! There I was, a young boy with space on his mind and a love of everything NASA related! In fact my parents still have a few of the NASA Magnets on their fridge from our visit.
Now after almost 30 years since my first visit, I reached out to the Kennedy Space Center to see if we could do a review. After all, the Kennedy Space Center put Central Florida on the map long before Disney did, and it’s one of the original Florida attractions. What I discovered was that over the past 30 years the Kennedy Space Center wasn’t at all what I remembered as a child, it was so much more! Sometimes when you revisit something from your childhood, it can often fall flat and you may have been better off with your memories. This was not the case with the KSC! I was so excited to share this new experience with my oldest little guy.
One quick point I want to make before I get into the specifics of the Kennedy Space Center is the that Visitor’s Complex is not tax funded. That’s right, we don’t actually pay for it as citizens, the visitors do. This has resulted in what I can only relay as top quality entertainment. After all, KSC is competing with the Mouse, Universal Studios and other top notch theme parks so they have to be good. While I was expecting more of a tour and a museum visit, what we actually experienced was more of an immersive, theatrical, and education experience like no other! Continue reading
There are very few activities that just scream SUMMERTIME, and baseball is one of them! I have fond memories of going to Daytona Cubs games (now the Tortugas) and relaxing in the summer evening eating hotdogs, and spitting sunflower seeds everywhere. Ok to the sunflower seed thing is a bit gross as an adult now, but as a kid it was awesome!
We love food festivals, and what would be better than a food festival in historic St. Augustine? How about the 2016 St Augustine Lions Seafood Festival! This event perfectly matches our family’s love of seafood, family and budget friendly activities, set in our of our favorite date trip destinations. Oh and there is a bonus! This annual shin-dig is hosted and present by the St Augustine Lions club, which is a non-profit, local community service organization, so by attending you’ll actually be helping the local community. Want a chance to win a family 4 pack of tickets? Keep reading!
If you know us, we love local festivals and fairs, and the grand daddy of them all is almost here. That’s right, the 2016 Florida Strawberry Festival is almost here! If you have never been, you really need to make plans to check it out this year. There are a total of eleven days this year so you have no scheduling excuses! We even have FREE tickets to give away so be sure to keep reading.
If you’re more of a contest type of person, don’t worry, they have you covered as well. The 2016 Florida Strawberry Festival features all sorts of competitive fun! Don’t miss the corn dog, spaghetti, and short-cake eating contests, (No they are not all a single contest!) or see just how many strawberries it’s possible to stem. If you don’t want to participate in the competitive eating fun, grab a single serve strawberry shortcake and enjoy the show.