Get a peek inside the most beautiful and often historic Jacksonville area homes with a home tour! The Jacksonville, FL area is the largest US city based on land mass at 840 square miles, and that doesn’t even include the beaches and nearby cities like St. Augustine. That encompasses quite a large area to explore, with unique styles and history in every corner. One great way to explore is to tour area homes that periodically open themselves up to the public during the annual home tours. Jacksonville Area Home Tours I love attending home tours to get new ideas for…
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Thrill the World is coming up on October 30th, are you ready? Every year around Halloween zombie dancers get together and do the dance from Michael Jackson’s iconic Thriller video and raise money for charity. I participated a few years ago, and even tried to break the world record at DragonCon one year, for the most people doing the Thriller dance at one time! I think we held the record for like a day before some giant group in Mexico beat us. But it was fun trying. I even made it into the newspaper! ‘Cause this is Thriller, Thriller Night…
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MOSH’s main exhibit until 5/16/21 is a Toytopia, a vintage toy wonderland with life-size games and tons of nostalgia. We took advantage of the free military day on Veteran’s Day but MOSH is free for kids all through November! There’s lot of stuff to play with in Toytopia- life size games like Battleship, a video arcade (all free games!), a floor piano and more. There’s also plenty of hand sanitizer stations for before and after playing the games. The displays all have vintage toys and games along with their history and information about collectables and how they get priced. It was neat…
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This year our day at The PLAYERS Championship happened to be the ONLY day of TPC people got to see before it was shut down due to concerns over the rapidly spreading Coronavirus. It was a beautiful Thursday afternoon and I’m glad I got one last day out before everything was shut down! VIP at The TPC We planned on doing a family day this year at The PLAYERS Championship and were taking our son to see the golf tournament for the first time. The coronavirus warnings made me feel slightly uneasy about the large gathering, but amid reassuring updates…
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Dinosaurs roam the earth once again at Dinosauria, presented by Sonny’s BBQ, on display until July 5th at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens. The exhibit features more than 20 life-size prehistoric animals that move and roar as you make your way through a self-guided paleontological journey into the past. Dinosauria also spills out to the rest of the zoo with the T-Rex Grill takeover and special showing of The Lost World at the 4D theater. A Journey Into the Past at Dinosauria Armed with our digital field guide, we made our way through the sparkling Time Tunnel and traveled straight…