The Orange Grove, Part 1

This is still on the first day...It was so cold outside that we wanted to go somewhere we could be inside. Que the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Science and Discovery. I am not a museum person -- but we were there a full 3 hours--and Eddie would have stayed much longer had we let him.

J fell asleep en route, so g'pa napped with her whilst we took Eddie inside. Once we actually got him inside, that is. There is a giant gravity fed clock out front (he said it was his favorite part of the musuem) and he didn't want to go inside to see anything. As far as he was concerned, this was the purpose of the trip.

Then we got him inside and he didn't want to leave their Orange Grove. They have a great toddler/preschool area full of hands-on experiences.

More pictures in the next post, but you 'pick' the oranges by pulling them out of the trees and if they get overloaded with oranges, they tend to pop right out of the trees.

You then put them in a bin (the glass part behind Eddie), the bicycle moves them up a lift and overhead to fall back down into crates. A kid then takes the crates loaded with oranges over to the conveyor belt and they go into another life that pushes them into the 'orange trees'.