Sunrise, FL

Wannado City® at Sawgrass Mill in Sunrise Florida- A Kid's Place You Will Not Want To Miss Out On!

Our homeschool support group planned a group field trip for the kids to Wannado City® last week. It worked out great for us because we hired a new buyers' agent who works in Weston Florida and that is right close to Sawgrass Mill in Sunrise. Sawgrass is absolutely my favorite shopping mall in the world besides all the shops at Disneyworld. ( we are Disney Fans), but more about shopping at Sawgrass in another post. I am not a big shopper. I like to buy online and I don't buy anything I don't really need or that does not serve a purpose, and absolutely no dust collectors.

So our plan was to spend a day with Julie Locke our new buyers agent in Weston. We asked her to take us on a tour so we could take tons of photos and blog about the are so we could get her the buyers leads that we will get from blogging. We spent the night in a hotel right next to Sawgrass and in the next morning met our homeschool group outside of Wannado City which is located right at the Sawgrass Mills shopping mall close to Rainforest Cafe.

Our son was standing in line and started meeting and talking to a couple other homeschooled boys around his age. He is 7 years old and is very good about making friends with other kids. He and another boy connected well and ended up being buddies the whole day. Of course that meant that I made a new friend also in this boy's mom since we were going around together following the boys on their trips around Wannado City®.

Wannado City® is the largest indoor theme park in the United States. It is so much fun. I was saying to Nestor; I wish they had a place like this when I was a kid. I would never want to leave! You can not do everything in one day so you need to pick your favorite things to do first and then go back through the city to do the second favorite things to do.

Wannado City® is a place where the kids get to explore many different occupations in near to real life situations. The parents are allowed to watch from outside but for most activities the parents are not allowed to go into the specific career buildings except for a few of them.

The first thing on the boys' list was to become Police Officers. So they go into this miniature, child's level, police station that looks very real, a dozen children at a time. Each event takes about 20 minutes. In the police station the adult cops divide the kids into cops and robbers. My son and his buddy were robbers. So they get to go rob the Wannado City® bank, ( just run in and steal the Wannado dollars out of the Wannado City® bank) then they try to hide as the cops come to find them and put them in jail It was so funny and the employees acting out with the kids seemed like they were really enjoying themselves.

The next really fun thing the boys did was CNN. Our son was the Weatherman! He had SO much fun with this activity. It was a real life sound stage with the green screens with the tele-prompters and all! Nestor ordered a DVD of his performance. This one is going to stick with him for a while. He still talks about it a week later!

Among the other events the boys did were:

• the Firefighters,
• Airline Pilots,
• Newspaper Reporters and writers,
• Candy makers, Bakers,
• Pizza makers,
• Bank tellers,
• Cookie bakers,
• Private Eye Detectives,
• and then our son's favorite was mining for gems.

At each one of these learning stations they get paid in Wannado Dollars which are redeemed at the end of the day for junk toys or they can use them to do things like ride the bus around Wannado City ® or climb the rock wall. Well, in the mining trip, they got these fake gold nuggets that they then go take to the jewelry store to sell. It was such a blast!

What a great and fun way for kids to learn about the different careers in a very hands on way. We are going to go back to Wannado City® again!

The one thing that is kind of irritating is that for the parents: once you go in you can not leave. If you leave, you can not get back inside. Nestor was in Wannado CIty ® with us until after Lunch. That is when he told me, this is why mothers have more patience. He went shopping while we stayed and finished up our tour and activities at Wannado City.

12801 West Sunrise Boulevard

Anchor D

Sunrise, FL 33323

Main Phone Number

• 1-888-WANNADO

• 1-954-838-7100

Their website is: www.wannadocity.com

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Blogging in my opinion is definitely a fun and effective way of marketing on the internet. I am usually excited when an ideal topic of interest pops into my head during my day. That ideal is usually very specific in nature, something that I can really focus in on and create great content with.

However, sometimes you may have your entire blogging game plan mapped out and still not have the ability to produce a single sentence to your satisfaction. Sometimes I sit at my screen with my notepad and I sit and stare for about an hour before I begin writing anything at all. It happens to us all.

I think the key to being able to produce content is to just relax! Do not make blogging a chore. Even if you have an extremely busy schedule, at the end of the day when you check your email like most people do, write a few sentences on a topic and just post it. It doesn't have to be ground breaking or earth shattering information. Just get in the habit of putting content out onto the web. You will improve in time.

What I like to do with my blog is make it fully customizable. I like to change formats, fonts, colors, make it personal. I do this because it makes blogging more personal to me, it becomes "my site". Once you invest your ideas and time into your blog, you will feel less intimidated and rigid about posting your thoughts onto the web.

Happy Blogging!

This weekend the South Florida Sun Sentinel featured a story about Howard Mallinger and his wife Sheryl. Howard never imagined that his retirement years would end up like this. His wife was diagnosed with Stage IV brain cancer and the medical expenses are crippling his life. His home is in pre foreclosure, his electricity has been shut off, his social security income doesn't cover his expenses and he has to go to local food banks for food for him and his two mentally challenged sons. I've inserted more details of his heart wrenching struggles which you can read and listen to by clicking on the link below:

Sun Sentinel story on the Mallingers

I met Mr. Mallinger yesterday with my family and he's a man that still has great faith and hope even after all that he has been through. I'm thankful to have met him. If you could keep the Mallingers in your prayers, I know that they would be forever grateful.

If anyone would like to donate to him, I would be glad to facilitate that. If you choose to help, you could make a check or money order payable to Howard Mallinger and mail it to my attention at my Keller Williams office or you could even mail it to the Nursing Center where Howard's wife Sheryl is staying. Here are the addresses:

Keller Williams Partners Realty Attn: Lynn Pineda 1801 N Pine Island Rd #210 Plantation FL 33322

or

West Broward Nursing and Rehab Center 7751 W Broward Blvd. Plantation FL 33324 (954-473-8040)

The more you know, the better prepared, the better the outcome.

I serve Coral Springs and the surrounding cities such as Coconut Creek, Parkland, Sunrise to Southwest Ranches in Broward and Dade and Palm Beach Counties of South Florida as your dedicated Realtor and CDPE Certified Distressed Property Expert ready to work for you. I'm looking forward to hearing from you soon. Please call me at 954-464-1100 or email me at: lynnp@ImagineYourHouse and it would be my pleasure to help you!

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