Southern Grace Farms (by Caleb)

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We started our Florida vacation by driving to Southern Grace Farms. If you don't know, we went on a ten day vacation to various places in Georgia and Florida. We also are going to go to these three National Parks: the Everglades, Biscayne Bay, and Dry Tortugas. We are going on this vacation with one set of Aunts and Uncles (Alaina and Marc) and with both of our Cousins (Sophia and Nathan). 

After a fun drive of video games and stories, we arrived at Southern Grace Farms. Southern Grace Farms was a Harvest Host in Georgia that had fruit trees, fruits, strawberries, and vegetables, but only the strawberries were in season.

When we arrived, we bought a basket to U-pick the strawberries. Nathan, Sophia, Asher, Jordan, and I went out into the field to pick the strawberries. We picked (and ate) an overflowing basket (and mouth) of strawberries.

I really liked going on the playground. The thing I liked most was a roller slide made up of a bunch of PVC pipes. It was usually slow but I stood on it and pretended to be a surfer. I got really good at it, so good I could do it backwards!

For the rest of the day we played on the playground and ate strawberries.

The next day we walked around the property. We saw the fruit trees and saw a rabbit gnawing on old garden plants. When the store there opened, we got ice cream. We played on the playground a lot that day too.



The adults tried to surf on the slide and mostly failed

After awhile we packed up and drove to another campground to continue our Florida adventure!

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