Easter Hunt at the Shell Factory, North Fort Myers, Florida

The Easter Bunny found our trailer thankfully.

There were eggs everywhere inside and outside of the camper. Once they were all collected the girls traded some of the Pershops and Shopkin toys that were inside the eggs. Then we decorated our cookies that Sierra picked out at the store the other day.

 After we headed to The Shell Factory, Nature Park and Fun Park in North Fort Myers. It was advertised that they were having a free egg hunt for the kids.

Well they had an egg hunt which was basically just walking around the trail in the closed Nature Park area and being handed eggs by the volunteers a long the trail.

waiting for the trail to open

Receiving their first egg on the trail

After we walked the trail it was advertised that the Easter Bunny would be there...he was not.

So we explored a couple things like the fire truck and rock wall and tried to make the best of it.

 Then we headed inside to look at their "tourist trap" store.

We bought a few tickets so the girls could play a couple games.

 Posed for a couple pictures and wandered around before leaving.

I know it was a free event but we couldn't even see half the animals and if we wanted to, we had to come back in a couple hours and pay full admission to "see" the nature park. To be honest after walking through it I don't think it was worth coming back to see really (adults $12, kids 4-12 $8).

I think the event would have been so much better if they had a discounted admission and let you enjoy the park. Or even full admission with an egg hunt as an extra treat. I guess their hope was that people would hang out and do other paid stuff in the park and come back (and I am sure some did). Those activities in the Fun Park would add up quickly too. Fun park fees were as follows: Paddle boat and fish food $5, Mini golf $/ kids $4, bumper boats $5, Trampolines $3...thankfully their rock climbing wall was free.

I felt like we were being nickle and dimed and we left. I hate free things that aren't free as a form of advertising and I felt really let down. We thought this would be a great family Easter event. Win some and loose some I guess.

Have you visited the Shell Factory? What are your thoughts?

Sun Splash Water Park, Cape Coral, Florida

Today Grammy Sue decided that it was treat day and took the girls to Sun Splash Water Park in Cape Coral Florida and they had a blast!

Since this is a water park I didn't get many photos but I got a few in the beginning. First up was Aayla on the younger kids water slides.

Sierra tried out the next smallest slides and loved them.

Aayla also really liked their rope course and did it many times throughout the day.

Next up was the lazy river so I could then go put my camera away and enjoy the day.

There were other bigger water slides but my girls are not fans of big slides so we didn't go on them. That fact made this park kind of expensive since we only used half the park. I will admit the lazy river was very fun and definitely more my pace. It would be nice if they had a "no big slides" price to make it more economical for families who just want some wet fun but not all the big slides. Non residents fees were kids $17.95 and adults $19.95, making this a $100 excursion. Thanks Grammy Sue!!! They do offer discounts for residents which is nice for locals.

We packed a lunch to take with us but when we arrived we were given a coupon for snacks (and their bad weather policy), which made their lunch very affordable and way less hassle. If we ever were to go again I'd just go with the pre-pay snack option.

Legoland, Florida

One of our Rally days was a group trip to Legoland! The Rally got an incredible home school deal which enabled us all to go for the price of one regular day admission basically.

Photo courtesy of the Fulltime Families Group

 I'm going to let the pictures tell the story themselves...

Entering the park for the first time

I love all the Lego displays everywhere.
This one was outside the main retail store.

The carousel was our first ride

Sierra with all her "Lego Friends"

Riding Merlin's Challenge

Riding Merlin's Challenge

We met Shrek and ate the best burgers and fry's according to Sierra

Watching the Dragon
to decide to ride or not...both girls decided not.

I love all the Lego figures all around

Learning to cast Magic spells

Oh oh she got caught casting spells!

The Royal Joust.. Aaylas favourite ride

I liked that each station had little play areas set up
for kids to play while the parents waiting in line.
This is genius as far as I am concerned!

 We of course ran into a few Fulltime Families during our day.

Kimberley Travaglino... the super woman
of the Fulltime Families group

Sierra loved the Wolf outside of
the Forestman's Hideout Playground

 Besides the playground this ball gunnery area was Sierras favourite...but I can't remember what it was called.

 The Safari Trek was a short little ride but the jungle animals were so fun to see.

 Break time for a treat at Firehouse Ice Cream and it was yummy!

 We then went to the flying and driving school but my girls have no patience to wait in lines so they gave up. Off to AquaZone...



As I write this and look at the map we appear to have missed a whole corner of the park??? Oops! We took one last look around all the mini cities.

We even got to see the shuttle blast off.

 Both girls decided Project X was the "big" ride they wanted to try... happy face here in line but they both freaked out on the ride and our day came to an end...time to leave as they did not want to go on anything after that.

One last goodbye as we head out of the park.

 Mini figure trading! We almost forgot! You can bring in mini figures to trade here or even with workers who have a mini figure on their name tags.

Sierra with her new figures she traded

Wall of figures for trade

Aayla making a trade

With her new figures

One last pose as we leave the park

Overall we had a good day and you can't beat the pricing we got with the Rally. Since we missed part of the park we felt it was a bit small...now I know why. The water park was also closed on the day we visited. I also think we did a lot of running around and back tracking as we had never been here before and didn't do any research before we went so we did a lot more walking back and forth to find things the girls wanted to do.

Both girls were too timid to go on a lot of the rides so they weren't overly in love with this park but I think if they ever decide they like thrill rides then they would like the park better...or if the water park was open I am positive their love of the park would have risen a few notches...maybe by the next time we go?

Have you ever visited Legoland Florida? What was your families experience here?