Dancing Beach Girl (aka Happy Havana!!)

Dolphins!!!

All Aboard!!  In the early evening hours, we headed out on a cruise in search of dolphin.

On the way back, when the dolphins stopped following the boat, the girls took time to read about sea life.

Green Cay

 Another memorable outing that serve educational purposes and soul purposes! We went to Green Cay preserve (check out http://www.pbcgov.com/parks/locations/greencay.htm) where we learned about Florida wildlife and wetlands and took in the beauty, creativity and brillance of our Creator. 

 Amara was especially excited because she has been learning about biomes in school. So in between running the mile long board walk, she stopped to read the educational information along the way. We both appreciated what we discovered. Havana, she enjoyed running and playing about!

 At the nature center we saw baby alligators and we met Oliver the Owl. The staff surprised us by bringing him out to show him to use. 

Once again, we are blessed to have a another great adventure. We are fortunate to have the means to travel and do such things. I am most grateful and I am teaching them to be grateful too.

Sugar Sand Park

In the early evening hours,  it became apparent that the girls needed to get outside and play in a place just for kids. We'd been outside a bit but they needed to run and move and stretch in a kids type of place. My mom's over 55 community while nice, doesn't have that type of space for kids. So we set out  to find Sugar Sand Park. A playground was just what my two energetic gals needed. But we had no idea that this place would be home  to the biggest play structure ever! (I am sure there are others this large but we had never seen such something this enormous in a park.) 

I followed Queen Havana for a bit as she paraded around repeating, "I am the Queen and this is my castle" but was eventually banned! Of course, I was summoned to push her when she wanted to go on the swings!

Music by Amara!

Sugar Sand Park (http://www.sugarsandpark.org/) is also home to a carousel, a theater and a children's science museum. The latter looked like fun but going inside was not an option this time around. My girls, like all children, need to spend time each day outside. Sugar Sand Park was truly one of the best parks we had ever seen and the girls got their fill of running, moving and stretching (body and mind). And they had such a blast. This park is one we will remember for a long time!

There was even a 'barn'. I was jealous of this Florida park. I want to go home and find a way to build a park like this in our community!

Makeup and Nails by Nana

Sandoway House

We took a drive to Delray Beach to visit Sandoway House ( check out http://www.sandowayhouse.org/), a quaint nature museum located in a historic building just across the street from the ocean. Since Amara is missing a week of school, I planned several outings that are educational. Sandoway House was a perfect field trip! We saw one of the largest shell collections in the world, and got up close with fish, turtles, and nurse shark. There was a lab room with microcope where both girls got to see things feathers and skins followed by written exercise. 

Sandoway House is small but packed with wonderful learning  about sea life. 

Digging for fossils.

A 2 week old turtle

Shark feeding along with a lesson on sharks.